School of Social and Political Science

Description

Are you a PhD student or early career researcher in global and cross-cultural mental health? The Edinburgh Centre for Medical Anthropology and the Global Mental Health Collaborative is pleased to invite you to a workshop with Dr Rochelle Burgess, Professor of Global Mental Health and Social Justice at University College London.

To register please  a) complete the eventbrite registration  below  AND  provide the following information on this form  https://forms.office.com/e/3SfKVjmXV2   - b) an abstract of your current research and c) details of a key challenge question, i.e. what current challenge you are facing with your research in the form below. 

This event is co-sponsored by the Edinburgh Centre for Medical Anthropology; Social Work subject area, SPS and the Global Mental Health Collaborative.

Our Speaker: 

Dr Rochelle Burgess

Rochelle is interested in the promotion of community approaches to health and mental health improvement globally. Her work explores how communities navigate and respond to the political economy of poor health, with a particular emphasis on community-led efforts to address the impacts of broader development issues such as poverty, gender, racialisation, systems of governance, and community mobilisation and activism. For the past decade she has focused largely on mental wellbeing and the experience of common mental disorders in contexts of adversity. She is qualitative social scientist, trained at the London School of Economics and Political sciences, and a leading voice in the emerging field of social interventions in Global Mental Health. She has led a range of projects that focus on the development and evaluation of community mental health interventions (in South Africa, Colombia, UK and Zimbabwe) and has contributed her methodological and mental health expertise to projects on community led responses to other health challenges, such as child health in Nigeria and Patient Centred outcomes for TB.

Rochelle is Professor of Global Mental Health and Social Justice and Deputy Director of the UCL Centre for Global Non-Communicable Diseases, at the Institute for Global Health at UCL. She is the founder and Director of UCL's Global Network on Mental Health and Child Marriage. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Public Health, Fellow of the Young Academy of Europe, member of the ESRC peer review college, UK Trauma Council, among other affiliations and advisory board memberships. She is an advisor to the WHO on mental health policy.