North America

BOSTON

MGH/McLean Community and Global Psychiatry Program (CGPP)

The Community and Global Psychiatry Program is a residency training initiative across the Mass General Brigham system that prepares psychiatrists to address mental health challenges in underserved communities both in the U.S. and internationally. The program combines mentorship, coursework, and hands-on projects focused on community psychiatry, cultural psychiatry, mental health equity, and global mental health systems. Residents work with domestic and international partners on projects involving service delivery, education, research, and capacity building in locations such as Rwanda, Peru, Sierra Leone, and U.S. community health centers.

Global Disaster Readiness

Members of the Division of Global Psychiatry have significant experience in psychiatric aspects of disasters. The Division seeks to translate learnings from international contexts to domestic initiatives in the United States. Drs. Ganaelle Joseph-Senatus and Guiseppe Raviola co-chair the Disaster Readiness Committee of the Massachusetts Psychiatric Society. In addition, Drs. Raviola and Frederick Stoddard sit on the Disasters, Trauma and Global Health Committee at the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry. Dr. Stoddard also sits on the Committee on Psychiatric Dimensions of Disasters at the American Psychiatric Association.

Harvard Program on Refugee Trauma

Founded in 1981, the Harvard Program on Refugee Trauma is a mental health initiative that supports refugees, survivors of violence, and displaced populations from natural and man-made disasters through clinical care, research, and training. Since its early work in the 1990’s in Cambodia and the Balkans, the program has partnered with governments and humanitarian organizations worldwide to strengthen trauma-informed care with evidence based best practices. Since 2006, it has offered the Global Mental Health: Trauma and Recovery Certificate Training Program (GMH) at Harvard Medical School to health professionals, humanitarian relief workers, and policy planners. GMH now has more than 2,500 alumni working in 85 countries globally.