Interdisciplinary Approaches to Global Mental Health
This workshop will bring together psychiatrists, social scientists, and humanities scholars to discuss interdisciplinary approaches to understanding global mental health, social justice and well-being in relation to cultural, historical and political context.
DATE and TIME:聽March 20th, 2024 (2-5pm EST), March 21st, 2024 (8:30am -12:30pm, 2-5pm EST)
This is a HYBRID event (in-person registration is now听肠濒辞蝉别诲)
LOCATION:聽Room 138, Ludmer Building
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2024
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| January 11 |
Samuel O. Okpaku, MD, PhD |
Reflections on Global Mental Health: Ethical and Humanitarian Considerations |
2023
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| December 14 | Seth Abrutyn, PhD | The Social Roots of High School Suicide Clusters |
| February 2 |
Sudarshan R Kottai -聽Assistant Professor |
LGBTQIA+ rights movement in India: Examining the crisis of care, values and ethics in psy disciplines and state mental |
| January 19 | Alice Bullard,聽PhD & Esq - Washington DC |
2022
| 顿补迟别听 | Speaker | Title |
| October 27, 2022 | Ana Antic, Lamia Moghnieh, Shilpi Rajpal, Gabriel Abarca-Brown - University of Copenhagen | 鈥� |
| October 6, 2022 | Fahimeh聽Mianji, Ph.D. - Global Mental Health Researcher | |
| March 10, 2022 | Roy Richard Grinker, PhD -聽George Washington University | |
| January 27, 2022 | Sudarshan R. Kottai , PhD -聽CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru-29, India |
Interrogating 'Care', 'Chronicity' and expansion of patienthood: Ethnographic encounters from community mental health programs in India. |
2021
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| March 4, 2021 | Vivian Dzokoto, PhD -聽Virginia Commonwealth University | Models of Mind and Knowing in the Akan of West Africa |
2020
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| December 10, 2020 | Alexander R枚dlach, PhD, SVD - Creighton University | Improving Emotional Health in the Community: Health Ministries in Faith Communities |
| October 8, 2020 | Seneinu Thein, PhD -聽UC Berkeley |
2019
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| November 21, 2019 | Marie-H茅l猫ne Doucet, PhD Student - 缅北强奸 | The non-practice of female genital mutilation in Conakry: Case studies on the profiles of families in Guinea's context of high prevalence |
| March 12, 2019 | Lynne Jones, OBE, FRCPsych, PhD - Harvard University, Boston | Cross Cultural Issues and Mental Health in Conflict and Disaster Settings |
2018
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| December 13, 2018 | Lars Hedegaard Williams, PhD(c) - Aarhus University, Denmark | Trauma and prayer in post-conflict northern Uganda |
| December 11, 2018 | Gr茅goire Ahongbonon, Fondateur et Directeur-g茅n茅ral, Association Saint-Camille-de-Lellis | L鈥橝ssociation Saint-Camille-de-Lellis : Une aide efficace et 脿 faible co没t aux personnes ayant des probl猫mes graves de sant茅 mentale en Afrique de l鈥檕uest (see location at: Douglas Hospital) |
| November 28, 2018 | Kamaldeep Bhui, PhD - Queen Mary University, London | Global Mental Health & Cultural Psychiatry: creative tensions in the discourse聽聽 (see location at: JGH) |
| October 18, 2018 | Cristiana Giordano, PhD - University of California, Davis | The Funnel Effect: The ethical unraveling of care under the power of the ban |
| October 15, 2018 | D枚rte Bemme, PhD - 缅北强奸 | Contingent universals, aggregated truth: an ethnography of knowledge in Global Mental Health |
| August 30, 2018 | Harry Wu, MD, DPhil - University of Hong Kong | Profiling Mental Disorders Worldwide: a History of Science Approach |
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April 10, 2018 |
Sandra Hyde, PhD - 缅北强奸 |
Moving the Air: A Contemporary Tale of Chinese Drug Rehabilitation |
| March 20, 2018 | Ram Prasad Sapkota, PhD - 缅北强奸 | Social and Psychological Correlates of Mass Psychogenic Illness in Nepal |
| March 15, 2018 | Comparative Healthcare Systems Program |
Global Mental Health Conference |
| February 6, 2018 | Eric Jarvis, PhD - 缅北强奸 | Psychiatry in colonial Africa: Perceptions of Insanity by British Practitioners |
2017
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| March 1, 2017 | Laurence J. Kirmayer, MD - 缅北强奸 | Social Origins of Mental Disorders and Primary Prevention in Global Mental Health |
| March 16, 2017 | Frances Aboud, PhD - 缅北强奸 | Evaluation of a Parenting Intervention in Uganda to Address Maternal Well-being and Child Development |
| April 20, 2017 | Sakiko Yamaguchi, PhD Student - 缅北强奸 | Underage Drinking and Changing Parent-child Relations After the Political Violence in Ayacucho Province, Peru |
| June 22, 2017 | Kamaldeep Bhui, MD, MSc - Queen Mary University of London | Pathways to Sympathy for Terrorism |
| September 21, 2017 | Eric Latimer, PhD - 缅北强奸 |
A cost-effective approach to caring for people with severe mental illness in Africa? 聽Staffing inpatient, outpatient and rehabilitation facilities with service users at the Saint-Camille de L茅llis in French-speaking West-African countries |
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October 5, 2017 |
Matthew Heaton, PhD - Virginia Tech |
Decolonization and Diagnosis in Nigeria: A Historical Appraisal of Transcultural Psychiatry in Nigeria |
| October 26, 2017 | Vivian Afi Dzokoto, PhD -
Virginia Commonwealth University |
Once upon a shrine: Traditional healing of the mind and soul in contemporary Ghana |
| November 15, 2017 | Aliza Hunt, 缅北强奸 |
Scaling up for Depression in Indonesia: The Gap Between Text and Practice Breaking the Chains: The Case of Raja Gila (King of the Crazies) in Central Java, Indonesia |
| November 23, 2017 | Ingrid Waldon, PhD - Dalhousie University |
From the Enlightenment to Black Lives Matter: The Racial and Gendered Transformation of Schizophrenia in Psychiatry |
2016
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| September 21, 2016 | Professor Sandra Hyde,PhD - 缅北强奸 | Chasing the Dragon: The Malleable Addict and Losing Face In a Chinese Therapeutic Community |
| September 28, 2016 | Fahimeh Mianji, PhD Student - 缅北强奸 | 鈥淲omen as Troublemakers鈥�: The 鈥淗ard鈥� Sociopolitical Context of 鈥淪oft鈥� Bipolar Women in Iran |
| October 19, 2016 | Marie-Helene Doucet | Understanding the motivations of health-care providers in performing female genital mutilation: an integrative review of the literature |
| October 26, 2016 | Sumin Na, MSc - 缅北强奸 | Toward a Culturally Responsive Model of Mental Health Literacy: Facilitating Help-Seeking Among East Asian Immigrants to North America |
| October 27, 2016 | Jerome Kroll, MD, Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus - University of Minnesota Medical School | Psychiatric Care Of Somali Refugees In Minnesota 鈥� Making Use Of History And Culture |
| November 16, 2016 | Nicole D鈥橲ouza, PhD Student - 缅北强奸 | 鈥楽trange Love鈥� in intersubjective spaces: Untangling the relational motif in participatory research with disadvantaged children in Kingston, Jamaica |
| November 30, 2016 | Vanessa Lecompte, Postdoc - 缅北强奸 | Maternal mental health, social support, sense of belonging and child attachment in South Asian immigrant families |
2015
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| April 2, 2015 | Ram Prasad Sapkota, PhD Student | Changing Landscapes: Healing Traditions and Mental Health Care in Nepal |
| September 4, 2015 | Professor David Musimi Ndetei, University of Nairobi | Providing Mental Health Services in a Low-Income Country: Challenges, Opportunities and Innovation |
| November 3, 2015 | Astrid Kleis, Post-Doctoral Fellow | Parental Ethnotheories and Socialization Goals in two Generations of Three Indigenous Contexts with Different Levels of Acculturation in Brazil - Approaches and Impressions of Cross-cultural Psychological Research in Amazonia |
| December 1, 2015 | Professor Fran莽ois Bourque, 缅北强奸 | From Society to Psychosis: Insights from Migrant Studies and Implications for Global Mental Health |
2014
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| March 13, 2014 | Anna Pranjic, BSc candidate | Gender Empowerment in an Indigenous Community in the Peruvian Amazon through the Implementation of a Local Cocoa Plant |
| April 3, 2014 | Neda Faregh, PhD | Setting up a virtual psychology clinic and training of mental health workers in the Republic of Chad |
| November 20, 2014 | Nicole D'Souza, PhD Student | Discussion on Lancet Commissions Publication "Culture and Health" |
2013
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| October 3, 2013 | Duncan Pedersen, DMHUI | A Step in the Right Direction: Toward a New Architecture of Global Health Research |
| November 7, 2013 | Patricia Guimaraes, Post-Doctoral Fellow | Explanatory models and the experiences of stigma among people with mental illness and their families in Minas Gerais, Brazil |
| December 12, 2013 | Carol Zavaleta, PhD candidate | Climate Change and Food Security among Amazonian Indigenous Peoples in Peru |
