Academic

Mentorship, Teaching and Scholarship

I provide mentorship, formal and informal, to the next generation of mental health care providers, teachers and researchers. I teach undergraduate and graduate students, clinical trainees, and front-line care delivery and program implementers from a wide range of backgrounds across university, hospital and care delivery programs. I prepare and support emerging leaders in the post-COVID era to develop new kinds of programs and collaborations to effectively address the psychological and psychiatric impacts of climate change and other complex, overlapping crises. I also contribute to scholarship in psychiatry, public health, global health and social medicine. 

  • Massachusetts General Hospital

    • Director, The Chester M. Pierce, MD Division of Global Psychiatry

    • The Gary Gottlieb, MD, Endowed Chair in Global and Community Health (Mass General Brigham)

    • Co-Director, Community and Global Psychiatry Program, MGH/McLean Adult Psychiatry Residency

    • Associate Professor of Psychiatry

    Harvard Medical School

    • Consultant, Mental Health for All Lab

    • Associate Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine 

    University of Global Health Equity, Rwanda

    • Assistant Professor (Adjunct)

    Boston Children’s Hospital

    • Adjunct faculty (2019-present)

  • Global Mental Health Delivery: Research to Practice, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (2016-23)

    Mental Health Leadership Champions, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (2021-24)

    Foundations of Global Mental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (2023- 25)

    Violence, Pandemics, Healing and Everyday Life: Mental Health and Illness in Africa, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences (2025-present)

  • Published academic papers can be found on Harvard Catalyst.

Textbook Contributions

  • Pervasive developmental disorders and childhood psychosis (2011)

  • The Unique Challenges of Mental Health and MDRTB: Critical Perspectives on Metrics of Disease (2013)

  • Child and Adolescent Mental Health (2014)

  • Health Care Professionals' Mental Health and Well-Being in the Era of HIV/AIDS: Perspectives from Sub-Saharan Africa (2015)

  • Autism Spectrum Disorder and Childhood Psychoses (2016)

  • Global Mental Health, Behavioral Medicine and Wellness (2018)

  • Natural and Humanitarian Disasters, and Mental Health: Lessons from Haiti (2019)

  • Global Health and Behavioral Medicine (2020)

  • Providing Mental Health Care in Primary Care Centers in LMICs: Addressing Complex Health-Care Gaps in Chiapas, Mexico (2021)

  • Global Health and Mental Health Care Delivery in Low-Resource Settings (2021)

  • How Mental Health Matters (2023)

  • Training for Humanitarian Crisis Response and Health System Reform (2024)

  • Global Psychiatry and Mental Health in the Post-pandemic Period (2025)

  • Engaging in Disaster Response: Preparation, Systems, and Leadership (2025)

    Historical, Sociocultural, and Political Considerations 

    Humanitarian Mental Health: Psychosocial Response in the Context of Conflict, Climate Change, and Refugee Crisis 

  • Forthcoming Textbook, Editor: Case Studies in Global Mental Health Delivery: Research to Practice