Mardia Stone, MD, MPH, is a Senior Advisor to the MGH Division of Global Psychiatry and Senior Advisor to the Liberia Center of Excellence in Mental He... See More

Ramnath Subbaraman is an Associate Physician in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and a Research Fellow at Harvard ... See More

Dr. Lauren C. Ng is a psychologist whose work focuses on the psychological impact of war, conflict, and daily hardships on children and families, risk ... See More

Drs. Rebecca Hock, Jessica Magidson, and Lauren Ng will present on their work with the MGH Global Psychiatric Clinical Research Training Program (T32).... See More

Leontien (Lex) van der Stok is a second year student at the Vrije University in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pursuing a master’s degree in Global Heal... See More

David Addiss, MD, MPH is a public health physician whose work has focused on the prevention and treatment of neglected tropical diseases – causes of ... See More

Bakht Rawan, MBBS is a primary healthcare physician in the United Arab Emirates, currently observing at the MGH Division of Global Psychiatry. Dr. Rawa... See More

Bruno Falissard, MD, PhD, is a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist. Following his medical studies, Dr. Falissard received a PhD in biostatistics and com... See More

Dr. de Menil works as the Global Mental Health Program Manager at the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research. She completed her PhD at the London Scho... See More

Dr. Sandro Galea, MD, MPH, DrPH is a physician, epidemiologist, and Dean and Professor at the Boston University School of Public Health. Prior to his ... See More

The Chester M. Pierce, MD Division of Global Psychiatry and the Department of Psychiatry Center for Diversity are proud to invite you to our Global... See More

Dr. Medina Mora has served as Director-General of the National Institute on Psychiatry (Mexico) a World Health Collaboration Center Since 1976. She has... See More

Judith Bass, PhD, MPH is Associate Professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Mental Health. Her areas of expertis... See More

Steve and Liz Alderman founded the Peter C. Alderman Foundation (PCAF) in 2003 as a living memorial for Peter Alderman, a 25-year old who was killed in... See More

As a part of Ghana’s first Brain Awareness Week in September 2015, members of the Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Psychiatry teamed up w... See More

Please join us for an exciting event co-sponsored by the Chester M. Pierce, MD Division of Global Psychiatry and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Hea... See More

John W. Jackson, ScD is an epidemiologist and Yerby Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health. His work focuses on understanding and... See More

Visit the MGH Division of Global Psychiatry table at the 5th Annual MGH Global Health Expo! The expo will offer an opportunity for the MGH communit... See More

Saida Abdi, LICSW, MSW, MA, is a clinical social worker and expert in refugee trauma and resilience. She holds a master's degree in Social Work from Bo... See More

Join the Boston Children's Hospital Department of Psychiatry for the 9th Annual Myron Belfer Grand Rounds Lecture on Wednesday, May 25th from 10am-11am... See More

Kavitha Kolappa, MD, MPH, is currently a psychiatry resident at the Massachusetts General and McLean Hospitals. Kavitha was a Robertson Scholar at the ... See More

Dr. Solomon Teferra is an Associate Professor at the Department of Psychiatry at Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia. He is also a member of the committ... See More

The Centre for Global Mental Health (CGMH), a collaboration between King’s Health Partners (including the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuro... See More

Christina P.C. Borba, PhD, MPH is Director of Research for the Department of Psychiatry at Boston Medical Center. Until 2016, she was the Director of R... See More

Some of the most exciting and world-changing advances in medicine are happening in neuroscience. Unfortunately, mental health treatment and policy are ... See More

Dr. Elizabeth Levey is a Global Clinical Research Fellow in the Division’s T32 Fellowship. She is a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist involved in bot... See More

Dr. Gary Gottlieb will present on “Building sustainable models of mental health care delivery in the context of extreme poverty”, followed by Dr. G... See More

“Mind Body Medicine: Its Role in Compassionate Care” is a four day course from Thursday, October 20, 2016 to Sunday, October 23, 2016, offered by t... See More

We are pleased to have two of our Ethiopian collaborators visit Boston at the end of October. Dr. Atalay Alem (left) will open the evening with an o... See More

Now in its 14th year, this exciting event will offer an update on new research findings and important clinical topics for patients with schizophrenia a... See More

Trauma and trauma-related disorders are significant public health issues that require interdisciplinary approaches including epidemiology, biostatistic... See More

The World Psychiatric Association (WPA) is hosting a four day conference in Cape Town, South Africa from November 18-22. The WPA is an association o... See More

Christina P.C. Borba, PhD, MPH is Director of Research for the Department of Psychiatry at Boston Medical Center. Until 2016, she was the Director of ... See More

A clinical psychologist at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Dr. Murray has expertise in children, adolescents, and families. Dr. Murray... See More

Dr. Rondon is a psychiatrist at the Instituto Nacional Materno Perinatal, the largest maternity hospital in Peru, and associate professor at Cayetano H... See More

Taught by MGH faculty, this interactive course helps mental health professionals understand and identify clinical features of Obsessive Compulsive Diso... See More

Kim T. Mueser, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and Professor at the Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation at Boston University. Dr. Mueser’s clinica... See More

Do you know a colleague who is dedicated to solving health inequities either locally or abroad? Now is the time to nominate them for a Global Health Se... See More

Dr. Lin Piwowarczyk, Co-Founder of the Boston Center for Refugee Health and Human Rights (BCRHHR) is a psychiatrist at Boston Medical Center, board cer... See More

The Fifth Annual MGH Public and Community Psychiatry Symposium will be held on Wednesday March 29th, 2017 from 2:30-5pm at the O’Keefe Auditorium, Ma... See More

The third Cold Spring Harbor meeting on Wiring the Brain will begin at 7:30 pm on Tuesday, April 4 and run through lunchtime on Saturday, April 8, 2017... See More

Dr. Gordon Harper is a child and adolescent psychiatrist in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, includi... See More

Dr. Pragyan Sharma is a resident at Boston Medical Center and former observer at the MGH Division of Psychiatry. Dr. Sharma a medical graduate from N... See More

Summit meeting for psychiatry and psychotherapy It’s happening in autumn 2017: the WPA WORLD CONGRESS OF PSYCHIATRY, one of the most important ... See More

2022-02-28
Statement of Solidarity from the Boston University Medical Center (BUMC) - Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) T32 Global Psychiatry Clinical Research Training Program
When Kimberly Hook, one of our T32 fellows, helped us develop a new mental health research site for our fellows at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (NaUKMA) in Kyiv, we were all overjoyed to have our Ukrainian colleagues join our faculty. We have been impressed with the high quality of their work and the deep sense of mission.... See more

2022-02-15
Dr. Chester Pierce Legacy & Papers
Let us take a moment to reflect on the remarkable legacy of Dr. Chester Pierce, whose academic papers have now been made a collection by the Countway Library at Harvard Medical School.... See more

2017-05-01
Beginnings, An Initiative of the MGH Pierce Division of Global Psychiatry
Update by Dr. Menekse Alpay Not long ago in 2016, some in Turkey’s ruling party tried to pass a law stipulating that you... See more

2017-03-27
Dr. Koenen and her Impact at the Global Division
Since moving back to Harvard in 2015, Dr. Karestan C. Koenen, a Professor of Psychiatric Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Cha... See more

2017-02-28
Dr. Kristina Korte Accepted to the ADAA Alies Muskin Career Development Leadership Award Program
We are pleased to announce that postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Kristina Korte, has been selected for the highly competitive 2017 Al... See more

2017-01-23
Global Psychiatry Job Posting: Program Manager
The Division of Global Psychiatry is currently recruiting a program manager to support its portfolio of international researc... See more

2017-01-09
Global Division Supports Second Psychiatrist in Liberia
As of September, Liberia has its second psychiatrist working in country. With support from a philanthropic donor, Boston Medi... See more

2016-12-21
MGH Global Psychiatry Team Teaches Medical Students in Ghana for 7th Year
Seven years ago, there was one psychiatric residency program in Ghana and eight working psychiatrists in a country with a pop... See more

2016-12-09
The Largest Psychiatric Randomized-Control Trial Wraps up in Ethiopia
In photo: team members from the Addis Ababa University Folate study in front of the research building at Amanuel Mental Hospi... See more

2016-11-24
WHO Global Conference on Health Promotion
MGH Division of Global Psychiatry Director of Policy, Dr. Ed Wang, was invited to participate in the 9th WHO Global Conferenc... See more

2016-11-20
Landmark Conference Convenes to Address Mental Health Needs of the African Diaspora
By Kelsey Johnson On November 17th and 18th, 54 prominent psychiatrists, mental health specialists, and research fellows ... See more

2016-10-24
Global Division Supports First Psychiatrist in Somaliland
As of September, Somaliland has its first psychiatrist working in country. With support from a philanthropic donor, the MGH ... See more

2016-10-20
New Fellow Selected for the MGH T32 Program
We are pleased to announce the selection of our new fellow for the MGH Global Psychiatric Clinical Research Training Program ... See more

2016-09-26
Dr. Chester Pierce Passes Away
Chester Pierce, the namesake and the inspiration behind the MGH Chester M. Pierce, MD Division of Global Psychiatry, passed ... See more

2016-09-08
Jessica Magidson Awarded Partners Population Health Management Grant
Dr. Jessica Magidson, an Associate Member of the Global Division and former T32 fellow, has been awarded a Partners Populati... See more

2016-08-31
Second Global Fellow Receives K Award
We are pleased to announce Dr. Lauren Ng, a postdoctoral fellow in the MGH Global Psychiatric Clinical Research Training Prog... See more

2016-08-22
Christie Wu Joins the Division of Global Psychiatry
Please join us in welcoming Christie Yunyao Wu as the new clinical research coordinator of the Chester M. Pierce, MD Division... See more

2016-08-16
John Jackson Wins Best Paper in the Journal Epidemiology
Dr. John Jackson and his collaborator, Dr. Sonja Swanson, have been awarded the 2016 Kenneth Rothman Epidemiology Prize. Drs... See more

2016-07-20
Former Fellow to Join Faculty at Johns Hopkins
Dr. John Jackson, a former fellow at the MGH Division of Global Psychiatry and Schizophrenia Clinical and Research Program, w... See more

2016-07-14
The Division of Global Psychiatry has a new home!
The Division of Global Psychiatry has moved into a new office space at MGH. After many years at the Freedom Trail Clinic in t... See more

2016-06-15
First Division T32 Fellow Receives K Award
We are pleased to announce Dr. Jessica Magidson, the first fellow in the MGH Global Psychiatric Clinical Research Training Pr... See more

2016-06-01
Global Psychiatry Job Posting: Research Coordinator
The Division of Global Psychiatry is currently recruiting a research coordinator to support its portfolio of international re... See more

2016-05-18
Dr. Janina Galler Receives Leon Eisenberg Award in Child Psychiatry
Janina R. Galler, MD, was chosen as the recipient of the 7th Leon Eisenberg Award in 2016, given annually by the Global Menta... See more

2016-05-14
Division Senior Advisor Works to Eradicate Ebola in Liberia
Dr. Mardia Stone is a Senior Advisor at the MGH Division of Global Psychiatry and a public health and medical expert with ext... See more

2016-05-02
Dr. Gregory Fricchione Named Gottlieb Chair in Mental Health
Dr. Gregory Fricchione, the Director of the MGH Division of Global Psychiatry and Associate Chief of Psychiatry, has been s... See more

2016-04-20
Next Two Fellows Selected for the MGH T32 Program
We are pleased to announce the selection of our next two new fellows for the MGH Global Psychiatric Clinical Research Trainin... See more

2016-04-06
Journey from Kathmandu to Boston: Global Division Observer Matches with BMC
A former observer at the MGH Division of Global Psychiatry, Dr. Pragyan Sharma, a medical doctor from Nepal, has been accepte... See more

2016-04-04
Strong Division Turnout at the MGH Public and Community Psychiatry Symposium
The Division of Global Psychiatry was well represented at the 4th Annual Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Public and Comm... See more

2016-03-01
Global Health Service Award Nominations are Now Open!
Do you know a colleague who is dedicated to solving health inequities either locally or abroad? Now is the time to nominate ... See more

2016-02-01
Division and Collaborators Strategize to Address Mental Health Needs in Rural Ecuador
In January 2016, the Massachusetts General Hospital Chester M. Pierce, MD Division of Global Psychiatry staff (Drs. Gregory F... See more

2016-01-25
Dr. David Henderson wins Harvard Catalyst grant on schizophrenia
In January 2016, Dr. David Henderson was awarded a pilot grant from the Harvard Catalyst Clinical and Translational Science C... See more

2015-12-18
Saudi Fellow to Join Global Research Team
Dr. Lamis S. Al-Solaim will begin a research fellowship with the Chester M. Pierce, MD Division of Global Psychiatry at the s... See more

2015-12-01
Welcoming Dr. Gregory Fricchione as Director of Global Psychiatry
As of November 2015, Dr. Gregory Fricchione has reassumed directorship of the Chester M. Pierce, MD Division of Global Psychi... See more

2015-11-30
Combating Barriers to Care in Rural Uganda
MGH Global Psychiatry research fellow Dr. Christine Cooper-Vince recently returned from Mbarara, a small town in southwest Ug... See more

2015-11-19
Global Intern on Track for Prestigious Rhodes Scholarship
Our Global Division 2015 summer intern Getrude Makurumidze, a senior at Bryn Mawr College, was selected as a finalist for the... See more

2015-10-30
The Division of Global Psychiatry Builds Collaborations in Somaliland
Pictured on left: Dr. Ereg, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Hargeisa, Essa Kayd, Dr. Fricchione, and Dr.... See more

2015-10-19
Dr. Henderson Appointed Chair of Psychiatry at BU School of Medicine
Dr. David C. Henderson, the Director of the MGH Division of Global Psychiatry and the Schizophrenia Clinical and Research Pro... See more

2015-10-08
Brain Awareness Week in Ghana
Pictured on left: MGH Psychiatry staff member, Dr. Mohammed Milad, playing a game with Ghanaian school children to illustrate... See more

2015-09-15
Creating a Neuroscience Curriculum at the University of São Paulo
Brazil’s residents at the University of São Paulo’s Department of Psychiatry face a striking problem in their neuroscien... See more

2015-09-01
Video: Dr. Chemali trains Lebanese field workers in stress reduction
Dr. Zeina Chemali, the Global Division’s Director for Neuropsychiatric Outreach, has now trained 120 Lebanese field workers... See more

2015-08-03
Dr. Hermione Lokko wins Project Impact Researcher Award
Dr. Hermione Lokko won the Project Impact Researcher Award at the National Medical Association conference in Detroit earlier ... See more

2015-07-23
The Division of Global Psychiatry visits Ethiopia
Clinical Research Fellow, Dr. Lauren Ng, and Global Program Director, Anne Stevenson, are in Ethiopia for 10 days for working... See more

2015-06-30
Ethiopian collaborator, Dr. Teferra, spends a week with the MGH Global Division in Boston
The Principal Investigator of our schizophrenia folate study in Ethiopia, Dr. Solomon Teferra, is spending a week with the Di... See more

2015-05-27
Dr. Chemali receives award from the Lebanese Ministry of Social Affairs
The Division's Director of Global Neuropsychiatry Outreach, Dr. Zeina Chemali, has been honored by the Ministry of Social Aff... See more

2015-05-11
Video: Fellows showcase the Global Psychiatry Clinical Research Training Program
Drs. Jessica Magidson, Lauren Ng, and Rebecca Hock presented on their work prior to and with the Division's Global Psychiatri... See more

2015-04-30
Dr. Jessica Magidson wins Junior Investigator award at CALDAR Summer Institute
Dr. Jessica Magidson, a fellow in the Global Psychiatric Clinical Research Training Program, was recently awarded the Junior ... See more

2015-04-29
Global Psychiatry Clinical Research Training Program featured on Mental Health Innovation Network
The Mental Health Innovation Network blog has featured the MGH Global Psychiatric Clinical Research Training Program during i... See more

2015-04-23
Dr. Lauren Ng speaks about "Trauma and Healing in Post-Genocide Rwanda"
Dr. Lauren C. Ng, a postdoctoral fellow in the Global Psychiatric Clinical Research Training Program, gave her first Grand Ro... See more

2015-04-02
Dr. Janina Galler joins the MGH Division of Global Psychiatry
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Janina Galler and her team have joined the MGH Division of Global Psychiatry. Dr. Galler... See more

2015-03-30
Members of the Division visit Ethiopia for working sessions with collaborators
Several members of the team from the Division of Global Psychiatry are in Ethiopia this week to work with collaborators at Ad... See more

2015-03-13
Former Global Division member, Dr. Fallah, speaks about the role of informatics and Ebola at MIT
Fellows and staff from the Division of Global Psychiatry were fortunate to attend a lecture today at MIT by former colleague,... See more