[1] Beginning in 1996, Vollen spent four years working in Bosnia with Physicians for Human Rights.
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[1][2] Vollen has noted that prison is “physically and psychologically abusive.”[1] Vollen conducted an International Commission of Jurists-sponsored assessment of the Jenin Refugee Camp in the after the Israeli Defense Force's April 2002 incursion.
[2] Along with her human rights activism, Vollen practices medicine once a week and directs the DNA Identification Technology and Human Rights Center at the University of California, Berkeley, where she is a visiting scholar.
[1][2] She is a member of both the Council for Responsible Genetics (CRG) and Voice of Witness boards of directors.