Friday Morning Seminar in Culture, Psychiatry and Global Mental Health (via Zoom)

Date and Time

October 9, 2020
10:00AM - 12:00PM EDT

Location

Online Only

"Two Talks"

Attend this event via Zoom

Speakers:

“Crisis within a Crisis:  The Coronavirus Pandemic among Refugees on the Mexico-US Border”

Thomas J. CsordasDr. James Y. Chan Presidential Chair in Global Health; Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, University of California at San Diego. Director, Global Health Program. Director, UCSD Global Health Institute. Author, Body/Meaning/Healing; co-author, Troubled in the Land of Enchantment: Adolescent Experience of Psychiatric Treatment.

“Child and Adolescent Experience of COVID in the U.S.-Mexico Border Zone”

Janis H. JenkinsProfessor of Anthropology and Psychiatry; Director for the Center for Global Mental Health, University of California at San Diego. Author, Extraordinary Conditions: Culture and Experience in Mental Illness; co-author, Troubled in the Land of Enchantment: Adolescent Experience of Psychiatric Treatment.

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.

This event is online only. Please click the "Read More" link for full instructions on how to attend this seminar.

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

Remote Access Information:

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Please note: This meeting will be recorded.

 

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