{"id":17598,"date":"2026-08-28T12:39:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T16:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mghglobalpsychiatry.org\/newupgrade3\/?page_id=17598"},"modified":"2026-09-16T11:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T15:10:10","slug":"stephanie-smith-md","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mghglobalpsychiatry.org\/newupgrade3\/faculty-staff\/stephanie-smith-md\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephanie Smith, MD"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"17598\" class=\"elementor elementor-17598\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-3f4bd64 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"3f4bd64\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-no\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1b612cc\" data-id=\"1b612cc\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c648a01 elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"c648a01\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"980\" height=\"861\" src=\"https:\/\/mghglobalpsychiatry.org\/newupgrade3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/StephanieSmith-1024x900.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-16302\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mghglobalpsychiatry.org\/newupgrade3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/StephanieSmith-1024x900.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mghglobalpsychiatry.org\/newupgrade3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/StephanieSmith-300x264.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mghglobalpsychiatry.org\/newupgrade3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/StephanieSmith-768x675.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mghglobalpsychiatry.org\/newupgrade3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/StephanieSmith-450x396.jpg 450w, https:\/\/mghglobalpsychiatry.org\/newupgrade3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/StephanieSmith-800x703.jpg 800w, https:\/\/mghglobalpsychiatry.org\/newupgrade3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/StephanieSmith.jpg 1365w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-18798dc elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"18798dc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5>Stephanie Smith, MD<\/h5>\n<div><b style=\"letter-spacing: var(--spacing_value);\">&nbsp;<\/b><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Stephanie Smith, MD is the Director of Service Delivery of the Division of Global Psychiatry. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, the Director of the Program in Global Mental Health Equity at Brigham and Women\u2019s Hospital (BWH), and co-Director of Mental Health at the global non-profit Partners In Health (PIH). Dr Smith\u2019s expertise and scholarship is in mental health program&nbsp; implementation and implementation science, including capacity building of non-specialist&nbsp;providers for evidence-based mental health intervention scale-up, and evaluation of mental health services in resource-limited settings.&nbsp;<\/p><p>Through her work at BWH and PIH, she has supported the development of community-based mental health service delivery platforms, and the establishment of learning collaboratives in mental health care delivery, across multiple global sites including Haiti, Kazakhstan, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Mexico, Navajo Nation, Peru, Russia, Rwanda, and Sierra Leone, as well as in Massachusetts.<\/p><p>Dr. Smith\u2019s work has been supported by grants from the National Institute of Mental Health, Grand Challenges Canada, World Health Organization\/USAID, and the Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation of Massachusetts, among others. Dr. Smith continues her clinical&nbsp;practice as a consult-liaison psychiatrist on the Medical Psychiatry service at BWH, and actively teaches and mentors psychiatry residents and fellows, medical students, and other allied health professionals in the principles of public and global mental health.<\/p>\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-b986dcb\" data-id=\"b986dcb\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-23fa4dc elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode\" data-id=\"23fa4dc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"shortcode.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-shortcode\">\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"section\" data-elementor-id=\"17560\" class=\"elementor elementor-17560\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4c2c5aaa elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"4c2c5aaa\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-55abfb2e\" data-id=\"55abfb2e\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4c9b02b8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"4c9b02b8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mghglobalpsychiatry.org\/newupgrade3\/faculty-staff\/\">Back to Faculty &amp; 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Stephanie Smith, MD is the Director of Service Delivery of the Division of Global Psychiatry. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, the Director of the Program in Global Mental Health Equity at Brigham and Women\u2019s Hospital (BWH), and co-Director of Mental Health at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":8466,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-17598","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mghglobalpsychiatry.org\/newupgrade3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mghglobalpsychiatry.org\/newupgrade3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mghglobalpsychiatry.org\/newupgrade3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mghglobalpsychiatry.org\/newupgrade3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mghglobalpsychiatry.org\/newupgrade3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17598"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mghglobalpsychiatry.org\/newupgrade3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17612,"href":"https:\/\/mghglobalpsychiatry.org\/newupgrade3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17598\/revisions\/17612"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mghglobalpsychiatry.org\/newupgrade3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mghglobalpsychiatry.org\/newupgrade3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}