Education & Resources

MGH/Partners Healthcare

• MGH Center for Global Health
• Thomas S. Durant Fellowship for Refugee Medicine
• IMPACTO
• Partners International
• Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma at MGH

Harvard University

• Harvard Initiative for Global Health
  (To get on mail notification list, email globalhealth@harvard.edu)
• Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
• Harvard Department of Social Medicine International Mental Health
  (To get on mail notification list for lecture series, contact Jennifer Moltoni)
• Harvard Department of Social Medicine Friday morning seminar series
• International Child Mental Health Lecture Series at Children's Hospital.
  (To get on mail notification list, contact Myron Belfer)

Boston University

• Boston Center for Refugee Health and Human Rights
• Boston University School of Public Health - Center for International Health

Organizations in the United States

• American Psychiatric Association Office of International Activities
• American Psychiatric Association International Psychiatry Links
• Centers for Disease Control International Emergency and Refugee Health Branch
• Columbia University Global Health Online
• National Institute of Mental Health Office of Global Mental Health
• Physicians for Human Rights

International Organizations

• World Federation for Mental Health
• World Health Organization
• World Psychiatric Association

Publications

• Bridging Refugee Youth and Children's Services Publications
• Institute of Medicine - Neurological, Psychiatric, and Developmental Disorders: Meeting the Challenge in the Developing World, 2001
• Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General
• Mental Health: Culture, Race, and Ethnicity. A Supplement to Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General
• Poverty and Common Mental Disorders in Developing Countries, Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2003
• President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health
• World Health Organization Assessment Instrument for Mental Health Systems Report: Ethiopia
• World Health Organization Mental Health Publications
• World Health Organization Prevention of Mental Disorders: Effective Interventions and Policy Options
• World Health Organization Social Determinants of Health
• World Health Report 2001 - Mental Health: New Understanding, New Hope

Faculty with International Interests

Cross-Cultural Mental Health

• Arthur Kleinman (Harvard Anthropology Department)
• Byron Good (Harvard Department of Social Medicine)
• Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good (Harvard Department of Social Medicine)
• Alex Cohen (Harvard Department of Social Medicine)
• Thomas Burke, MD
• Anne Becker, MD (MGH)
• Lawrence Park, MD (MGH)
• Albert Yeung, MD (MGH)
• Hector Parada, MD (MGH)
• Batool Tauseef Kazim, MD (MGH)
• Margarita Alegria (Harvard Medical School/Cambridge Health Alliance)

Disaster Psychiatry

• Thomas Burke, MD
• Lawrence Park, MD (MGH)
• Gregory Fricchione, MD (MGH)
• Chester Pierce (MGH)
• Jennifer Leaning (Emergency Medicine/Harvard School of Public Health)
• Kerim Munir (Children's Hospital)

Epidemiology/Public Health

• Paul Bolton (Boston Medical Center)
• Theresa Stichick-Betancourt (Harvard School of Public Health)
• Kerim Munir (Children's Hospital)
• Margarita Alegria (Harvard Medical School/Cambridge Health Alliance)

Human Rights and Mental Health

• Stephen Marks (Harvard School of Public Health)
• Carola Eisenberg (Department Social Medicine)
• Samantha Morse (Physicians for Human Rights)
• Roberta Apfel (Beth Israel-Deaconess)
• Bennett Simon (Cambridge Hospital)
• Michael Grodin (Boston University)

International Child Mental Health

• Hector Parada (MGH)
• Myron Belfer (Harvard Department of Social Medicine)
• Felton (Tony) Earls (Harvard Department of Social Medicine)
• Gordon Harper (Department of Mental Health)
• Kerim Munir (Children's Hospital)
• Roberta Apfel (Beth Israel-Deaconess)
• Bennett Simon (Cambridge Hospital)
• Theresa Stichick-Betancourt (Harvard School of Public Health)

International Mental Health Policy/Services Development

• Alex Cohen (Harvard Department of Social Medicine)
• Leon Eisenberg (Harvard Department of Social Medicine)
• Arthur Kleinman (Harvard Anthropology Department)
• Miles Shore (McLean Hospital/Harvard JFK School of Government Wiener Center on Social Policy/Harvard Medical International)

Refugee Mental Health

• Richard Mollica, MD (MGH/Harvard Program for Refugee Trauma)
• Devon Hinton (MGH)
• David Henderson, MD (MGH/ Erich Lindemann Mental Health Center)
• Michael Grodin (Boston University)

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