A New Lens on Positive Deviance: Successes in Refugee Healthcare | Zeena Khazendar | TEDxYouth@PHUHS

Zeena has had a passion for refugee rights from the day she was born - considering both of her grandparents were Palestinian refugees. She hopes to spread awareness on how exactly we can improve refugee healthcare from a realistic standpoint. Zeena Khazendar is an undergraduate student at Stanford University majoring in Human Biology and minoring in Human Rights. She grew up in Jordan and her grandparents were Palestinian refugees, which led her to develop a fierce passion for serving underrepresented populations. Pursuing this passion, Zeena became Associate Director of BeAGoodDoctor, a nonprofit that serves the Emergency Department in Santa Clara Valley Medical Center by providing interpretation and volunteer services, largely for marginalized groups. Zeena is the founder of Virtual Mentorship for Students Abroad (VSMA), a program that connects high schoolers in impoverished villages who want to study in the US with mentors from top universities. She recently began working with Sana Relief, a nonprofit focused on Syrian refugee healthcare, and will be working both remotely and directly in Syrian refugee camps in Jordan. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx