Webinars
Mental Health and Climate Change: When a Global Crisis and Planetary Emergency Collide
The Petrie-Flom Center, Harvard Law School Project on Disability (HPOD), and GlobalMentalHealth@Harvard Initiative hosted an online, interdisciplinary panel of experts who explored the potentially devastating interplay between climate change and psychosocial disabilities, took stock of both the current state of research on this interplay as well as the efficacy of private and public interventions at this critical intersection, and pointed to the roles that key stakeholders must play to prevent the ongoing mental health crisis in many parts of the world from being supercharged by the global climate emergency.
Welcoming Remarks: Susannah Baruch, Executive Director, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics
Moderator: Michael Ashley Stein, Executive Director, HPOD
Panelists: Pat Dudgeon, Research Fellow, Poche Centre for Indigenous Health, School of Indigenous Studies, University of Western Australia Asha Hans, Former Professor of Political Science & Director of Women’s Studies, Utkal University Leo Goldsmith, Ph.D. student, Yale School of the Environment Walid Yassin, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Lise van Susteren, psychiatrist & environmental activist
Concluding Remarks: Vikram Patel, The Pershing Square Professor of Global Health & Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Decolonising Mental Health Systems - Global Experiences of Wellbeing
In this webinar, six Indigenous global leaders in mental health and wellbeing, from four colonies countries (Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States of America), will shared their experiences of walking in two worlds and of navigating mental health systems to ensure the wellbeing, healing, and self-determination of Indigenous peoples. A holistic worldview is offered that moves away from the deficit and individuality focused narrative of mental illness and considers the social, cultural, political and historical context of health and the structural drivers of health inequality.
Speakers: Pat Dudgeon, Waikaremoana Waitoki, Jeffrey Ansloos, Victoria M. O’Keefe, Leilani Darwin and Clinton Schultz.