Christine Thorne

Christine Thorne is a preventive medicine physician and clinical professor at University of California San Diego. She is an Assistant Medical Director with the Asylum Seeker Medical Program. She completed her medical degree at University of Washington School of Medicine and her Master’s in Public Health from San Diego State University.   

Migrants expelled from the U.S. and sent back to Mexico under Title 42, walk towards Mexico at the Paso del Norte International border bridge.
Migration

Title 42, Asylum Seekers, and American Public Health in 2024 Election

by Linda Hill, Nancy Carballo, Kathleen Fischer, Keeler Kime, Sara Baird, Christine Thorne, Candace Russell

Medical providers discuss the migration policy’s justification—or lack thereof