Friday Morning Seminar in Culture, Psychiatry and Global Mental Health

Date: 

Friday, April 1, 2016, 10:00am to 11:50am

Location: 

William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Room 1550

"From Catatonia to Community: Innovating Community Based Mental Health Services in Post-Genocide Rwanda"

Speakers:

Stephanie Smith, Medical Doctor, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Psychosomatic Medicine; Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Global Mental Health Delivery.

Giuseppe Raviola, Medical Doctor, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School; Director of the Psychiatry Quality Program, Department of Psychiatry at Children’s Hospital Boston (BCH).

Co-sponsored by the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

Contact:

Mira Vale
mira_vale@hms.harvard.edu
(617) 432-0715

Chairs:

Mary-Jo DelVecchio GoodFaculty Associate. Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

Byron J. GoodFaculty Associate. Professor, Social Anthropology Program, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University; Professor of Medical Anthropology, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

Michael M.J. FischerProfessor of Anthropology and Science, Technology, and Society (STS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Lecturer, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School.