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Received: 31 January 2017

Accepted: 22 July 2018

First Online: 8 August 2018

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: Tsega Gebreyesus is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia. She received her MPH from Columbia University and her PhD from Johns Hopkins University. Her research interests focus on the role of policy in shaping the health of migrant women globally.Zebib Sultan is currently a student of nursing based in Cincinatti, Ohio. The co-founder of the Eritrean Women’s Center in Tel Aviv Israel, she received her BA from the University of Asmara. She participated in a number of research projects while she was living in Tel Aviv, Israel.Habtom M. Ghebrezghiabher is a doctoral candidate at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He received his BA from the University of Asmara and his MA from the Ben Gurion University of the Negev. His research interests focus on the intersections of forced migration and health with a particular focus on women.Wietse Tol is an associate professor at Johns Hopkins University in the Department of Mental Health. He received his MSc from Leiden University and his PhD from Vrije University. His research interests focus on the intersection of science and practice in the development and evaluation of mental health and psychosocial support programs for populations in adversity in low- and middle-income countries.Peter J. Winch is a professor in the Social and Behavioral Interventions Program in the Department of International Health at Johns Hopkins University. He received his MD from Queens University and his MPH from Johns Hopkins University. His research focuses on developing interventions to improve maternal, child and infant health in low resource settings as well as topics related to global sustainability.Nadav Davidovitch is a public health physician, epidemiologist and Director, School of Public Health in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev. He received his MD PhD at Tel Aviv University and his MPH from Ben Gurion. His research interests focuses on the role of health policy in shaping health outcomes for marginalized communities in Israel.Pamela J. Surkan is an associate professor in the Department of International Health’s Social and Behavioral Interventions Program. She received her ScD from Harvard University and her PhD from the Karolinska Institute. Her research interests focus on the role of maternal mental health, social support and familial environment on early growth and childhood development.

: Ethical approval for this study was obtained from both the Ben Gurion University of the Negev, the Physicians for Human Rights Israel, and the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health Institutional Review Boards. No interviews were conducted until informed written consent was obtained from key informants and written or oral consent from asylum seekers (those who feared providing a signature provided oral consent).

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: Habtom M. Ghebrezghiabhear is currently an asylum seeker in Israel. The other co-authors have no competing interests.

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