Equity in Practice: Integrating Cross Cultural Health Brokers to Implement Culturally Safer Equity-Oriented Primary Care for Immigrants and Refugees in British Columbia

A Team Optimization Project to advance the expansion and sustainability of Umbrella Multicultural Health Co-op's interdisciplinary primary care team with Cross Cultural Health Brokers, and establish infrastructure for ongoing evaluation.

Location: New Westminster, British Columbia

Lead Organization: Umbrella Multicultural Health Co-op
Focus: Expanding and sustaining interdisciplinary primary care with Cross-cultural Health Brokers (CCHB) and integrating new CCHB team members into the interprofessional primary care team.

Project Team:

• Project Lead: Mei-ling Wiedmeyer, MD, CCFP, Umbrella Multicultural Health Co-op

• Project Co-Lead: Jeanette Pedersen, MD, CCFP, Umbrella Multicultural Health Co-op

• Zarghoona Wakil, MPH, Umbrella Multicultural Health Co-op

• Lindsay Hedden, PhD, Simon Fraser University