Lessons From The Field: Vaccinating Our Immigrant And Migrant Communities

Eva M. Galvez, MD, is board certified in family medicine and lives in Hillsboro, Oregon. In 2004, she received her degree from the University of Washington School of Medicine. She completed her residency in 2007, at Sea Mar Community Health Center, and since then Dr. Galvez has worked in federally qualified health centers. Since 2010, she has worked at Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center, where she sees a large number of patients, mostly Spanish-speaking immigrants. She is committed to providing excellent quality, humane and culturally sensitive health care to all people in her state. As the daughter of Mexican immigrants and seasonal farm workers, she has a special interest in the health challenges faced by immigrant families and seasonal farm workers. Dr. Galvez also teaches family medicine students. She believes she has a responsibility to help train the future generation of family physicians and, above all, to sensitize future physicians to the cultural barriers and determinants affecting immigrants. She has served as clinical family medicine faculty at the University of Washington School of Medicine and currently holds the position of clinical mentor for family medicine residents at the Wright Center. She is a member of the American Academy of Family Physicians and currently serves on the scientific advisory board of the Project to Prevent and Reduce Adverse Health Effects of Pesticides on Indigenous Farmworkers. She is a proud wife and mother of two.