Mei-ling Wiedmeyer is a family physician and Clinical Assistant Professor in the University of British Columbia Department of Family Practice. She works at the Umbrella Multicultural Health Co-op, a community health centre using a novel team-based care model with Cross Cultural Health Brokers to provide comprehensive primary care to refugee, immigrant and migrant populations who face barriers to health care access. She is the co-Principal Investigator of the ‘Evaluating Inequities in Refugee & Immigrants’ Health Access (IRIS)’ Project, a community-based mixed methods research project using qualitative interviews and administrative data to understand health care access for refugees and im/migrants in unceded Coast Salish lands (British Columbia).
Email:
meiling.wiedmeyer@ubc.ca