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Unending trauma: Addressing mental health needs of 1 million refugees

With scarce resources, Patel and Glowinski partner in Bangladesh

by Elizabethe Holland DurandoMay 15, 2019

Hundreds of colorful huts cover muddy hillsides at Rohingya camp on the Bangladesh-Myanmar border.

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Elizabethe works with the science-writing and media relations teams within Medicine Marketing & Communications. She writes occasionally, including stories for Outlook magazine and the Record that took her to Bangladesh to cover faculty efforts to help Rohingya refugees. She is a former reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Las Vegas Sun and the Northwest Florida Daily News, and she has taught journalism and/or writing courses at The Ohio State University, Lindenwood University and Webster University. She has a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a master's degree in journalism from Ohio State.