Fatima Karaki

Dr. Fatima Karaki is chair of the independent nonprofit Refugee Research Equity and Collaboration in Health (Refugee REACH), an organization dedicated to improving refugee health worldwide. She previously served as founding director of the Refugee and Asylum seeker Health Initiative (RAHI), which fostered research, education, advocacy, and community awareness in refugee health at UCSF. She is chair of the international Society of Refugee Healthcare Providers and founding co-chair of its Research Committee.

With almost twenty years of experience in refugee health, Dr. Karaki is an internationally recognized refugee health expert whose focus is advancing refugee health research in order to improve the quality of refugee healthcare. She has provided emergency medical relief to patients in refugee camps and slums throughout Europe, the Middle East and India. Dr. Karaki is an associate professor of clinical medicine at UCSF. She earned her medical degree from the University of Michigan and completed internship and residency at Washington University in St. Louis. Clinically, Dr. Karaki cares for patients at UCSF San Francisco General Hospital and Olive View- UCLA Medical Center.