Roberta Lavin, PhD, MA, RN, FNP-BC, FAAN, Professor spent twenty years as U.S. Public Health Service officer. She began her career at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington, DC on an acute psychiatric admission unit for those who were homeless. In her work, she has coordinated mass migrations in Guatemala, managed health care in an immigration detention center in Batavia, New York before becoming the Chief of Field Operations of the Division of Immigration Health Services, worked for the Federal Bureau of Prisons in Tucson, Arizona, and spent a few months