Katherine Peeler is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and an attending physician in the Division of Medical Critical Care at Boston Children’s Hospital. Additionally, she is a Medical Expert with the non-profit Physicians for Human Rights where she has volunteered for 20 years providing pro bono forensic evaluations to assist asylum-seekers with their immigration cases and testifying about conditions inside U.S. immigration detention centers. Dr. Peeler’s research and advocacy interests center around the health and health rights of relief-seeking immigrants in the U.S. She recently completed her master’s degree in medical anthropology at Harvard, studying how current U.S. immigration systems and structures propagate the already liminal status of relief-seeking children, making it almost impossible for those charged with caring for such children to truly do so. During her year at the Safra Center, Dr. Peeler hopes to explore these issues further in a book provisionally entitled “Corrupting Care and Fracturing Families: U.S. government treatment of children seeking immigration relief.” Katherine will be a joint fellow with the Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics.