Manuela Orjuela-Grimm

Manuela Orjuela-Grimm, Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Pediatrics at Columbia, leads CAMINANDO, a study examining diet, living conditions, and risk and protective factors for health in adolescents from Latin America settling in New York. Her research takes a pediatric approach, considering exposures to threat and deprivation across adolescence and the factors that help or hinder adaptation to life in a new country.

In Paris, Orjuela-Grimm will visit and observe at CAPSYS, a mental health care center for unaccompanied migrant minors led by psychiatrist Andrea Tortelli, whose patient population from Francophone sub-Saharan Africa offers a counterpoint to the Latin American youth in her own NYC-based study.