Date:
Location:
“Traditional Healers and Mental Health in Rural Nepal”
Speaker:
Tony Pham, Research Fellow, Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
Contact:
Sadeq Rahimi
Sadeq_Rahimi@hms.harvard.edu
This seminar is cosponsored by the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
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Chairs:
Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, Faculty 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. Good, Faculty Associate. Professor of Medical Anthropology, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Professor, Social Anthropology Program, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University.
Michael M.J. Fischer, Professor of Anthropology and Science, Technology, and Society (STS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Lecturer, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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Abstract:
Tony Pham, Md, MSc is Research Fellow in Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Pham completed a psychiatry residency and a Master's in Global Health at Duke University. During this time he worked as a Global Health Pathway and Fogarty International scholar. His projects investigated the mental health impact of traditional healers using a structured interview protocol and observational rating scale. In addition, he studied the role of spirituality among chronic kidney disease patients of rural North Carolina. Dr. Pham currently serves as a post doctoral fellow under Dr. Joseph Gone's Indigenous Community Well-Being Program. His current areas of interest include spirituality, meaning-making, and post-disaster relief work in low-and middle-income countries and rural America.
