#Join the Society of Refugee Healthcare Providers and Adrien Matadi for a Q&A session about healthcare navigation for newcomers!
*Spaces are limited. Preference will be given to non-clinician service providers (for example, case managers, community partners) working for organizations currently serving ORR-eligible populations. Register below and you will receive a confirmation email if there is space available.
This session will be an informal, discussion format. There will be no slides or presentation, but an opportunity for participants to ask Adrien Matadi any questions they have about health navigation.
Please submit your questions ahead of time through the registration form or by emailing sarah@refugeesociety.org.
#About Adrien Matadi
I am Adrien Matadi and I was born in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo, then known as Zaire. I served under Mobutu’s regime as a Peace Officer in the Special Unit and was posted in Egypt and Sudan for 6 years. I used to be a Care Navigator at Denver Health for 9 years, and now I am a Project Specialist. As a Care Navigator, I focused much of my work on in the Denver Health Refugee Clinic as a refugee intake and scheduling specialist. Now, I work in developing standard work for different projects such as Latent Tuberculosis Infection known as LTBI, Linkage to care, Covid 19 Outreach, etc. I have been in Colorado for 17 years and I have been working with refugees since my arrival in March 2006. I started working with refugees in 1997 when I became a refugee myself. Back in Ethiopia, I earned different positions in the refugee communities such advisor to field director of Jesuit Refugee Service, Urban Refugee Coordinator with UNHCR, ARRA (Administration for Refugees and Returnees Affairs), and all NGOs dealing with refugees. While in exile, I earned a law degree in Humanitarian and Human Rights Law and associate degree in Auto-Mechanics in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia