Todd William Schneberk

Associate Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine and Population and Public Health Sciences

Director of the Gehr Student Innovator's Program

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Overview

Todd Schneberk is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine, Faculty Co-Director of the USC Keck Human Rights Collaborative and Director of the Gehr Center Student Innovators Program. He completed his residency in emergency medicine at LAC+USC Medical Center and his fellowship in health policy and research at UCLA. He is the EM residency Social Emergency Medicine Coordinator and is passionate about incorporating social justice and human rights in emergency care. His research has demonstrated gaps in the care of Opioid use and disorder patients and the need for incorporation of harm reduction practices in the Emergency Department. He has worked extensively with displaced persons in Tijuana, Mexico since 2015, performed forensic evals for asylum cases with Physicians for Human Rights on both sides of the border including numerous Migrant Protection Protocols (Remain in Mexico) clients in Tijuana, and testified in front of Congress regarding the health effects of the Migrant Protection Protocols. His current research and advocacy projects span immigration and border health policy, hospital-based violence intervention programming, carceral health, opioid use disorder and medication assisted treatment access.

Publications

  • Access to Care and Patient Safety Measures: Placement in Healthcare Quality Frameworks, Degree to Which They Meet Criteria Used to Select and/or Prioritize Quality Measures, and Mapping to the National Quality Strategy Levers. Am J Med Qual. 2026 Sep-Oct 01; 41(5):227-236.. View in PubMed
  • Consistent Enrollment in a Health Care Coverage Program Is Associated With Fewer Type 2 Diabetes-Related Emergency Department Visits for Uninsured Immigrants. Med Care. 2026 Jun 01; 64(6):381-386.. View in PubMed
  • A Multicenter Qualitative Stakeholder Evaluation of the Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Programs in the Los Angeles County Safety-Net Healthcare System. J Urban Health. 2026 Apr; 103(2):443-453.. View in PubMed
  • Self-Pay Emergency Department Visits by Undocumented Patients After 2018 Public Charge Announcement. JAMA Netw Open. 2026 01 02; 9(1):e2555081.. View in PubMed
  • Migration-Related Trauma Among Asylum Seekers Exposed to the Migrant Protection Protocols. JAMA Netw Open. 2026 01 02; 9(1):e2550786.. View in PubMed
  • Structural intercompetency: an asylum seeker with abdominal pain in Tijuana, Mexico. Lancet. 2025 Dec 06; 406(10520):2619-2620.. View in PubMed
  • Examining Emergency Department Utilization and Hospital Admissions Among Older Undocumented Immigrants: Insights From a Primary Care County Program. Gerontologist. 2025 04 09; 65(5).. View in PubMed
  • Undocumented Patients with Access to Primary Care and Avoidable Emergency Department Visits: Evidence from a Safety-Net System. J Health Care Poor Underserved. 2025; 36(3):900-914.. View in PubMed
  • Comparing imputation approaches for immigration status in ED visits: Implications for using electronic medical records. Health Serv Res. 2025 Feb; 60(1):e14397.. View in PubMed
  • “Even Though the System Had Failed Him His Entire Life, We Were Failing Him Yet Again”: How Clinical, Welfare, and Penal Medicine Interact to Drive Health Inequities and Medical Moral Injury. Healthcare (Basel). 2024 Jul 07; 12(13).. View in PubMed