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