Directory
CBDMH Directors
Douglas Hollan, PhD, Professor, Department of Anthropology, UCLA; Member, Board of Directors, Foundation for Psychocultural Research; Steven R. López, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychology, USC; Member, Board of Directors, Foundation for Psychocultural Research
Research Sites
Culture and Disability: Autism Spectrum Disorder in India and the US
Co-PIs: Thomas S. Wesiner, PhD, Professor, Department of Anthropology; Director, Center for Culture and Health, UCLA; Tamara Daley, PhD, Senior Research Analyst, Westat, Inc.
Affiliated Faculty
Nidhi Singhal, PhD, Director, Research & Training, Action for Autism/National Centre for Autism, New Dehli, India
Rachel Brezis, PhD, FPR Postdoctoral Fellow, Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture and Neuroscience, UCLA
Culture, Neuroscience, and Psychosis
Co-PIs: Steven R. López, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychololgy, USC; Member, Board of Directors, Foundation for Psychocultural Research; Alex Kopelowicz, MD, Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA, William Vega, MD, Provost Professor, School of Social Work; Executive Director, Roybal Institute on Aging, USC
Affiliated Faculty
Concepcion Barrio, PhD, LCSW, Associate Professor, School of Social Work, USC
Carrie E. Bearden, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA
Robert M. Bilder, PhD, Michael E. Tennenbaum Family Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA
Xavier Cagigas, PhD, Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA
Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, PhD, Assistant Professor, Rossier School of Education, USC
Cultural Psychiatry: Integrating Ethnography and Neuroscience in Global Mental Health Research
Co-PIs: Laurence J. Kirmayer, MD, MD, FRCPC, James McGill Professor and Director, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University; Editor-in-Chief, Transcultural Psychiatry; Douglas Hollan, PhD, Professor, Department of Anthropology, UCLA; Member, Board of Directors, Foundation for Psychocultural Research; Eran Zaidel, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychology, UCLA
Affiliated Faculty
Lauren Ban, PhD, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for International Mental Health, Melbourne, Australia
Jennifer Bartz, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, McGill University
Alain Brunet, PhD, Director, Psychosocial Research Division, Douglas Institute, McGill University
Suparna Choudhury, PhD, Assistant Professor, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, McGill University
Ian Gold, PhD, Canada Research Chair, Department of Philosophy, McGill University
Danielle Groleau, PhD, Assistant Professor, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec
Brandon Kohrt, MD, PhD, Resident, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, George Washington University Medical Center
Duncan Pederson, MD, MPH, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, McGill University
Amir Raz, PhD, ABPH, Professor, Depatments of Psychiatry, Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University
Andrew Ryder, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Concordia University
Ram P. Sapkota, Doctoral Student, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, McGill University
Allan Young, PhD, Marjorie Pronfman Professor, Department of Anthropology, McGill University
