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Ron Wintrob, M.D.
Ron Wintrob, M.D.
Lise Bouchard, Ph.D.
Lise Bouchard, Ph.D.
 

Contributors

 

Micole Ascoli, M.D.

Micol Ascoli, M.D.
Consultant Psychiatrist, East London NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK

Tyler Barlowe

 

L. Tyler Barlowe, M.S. (Modoc)
Counselor/Case Manager, United Auburn Indian Community, California, USA

Dinesh Bhugra Website

Dinesh Bhugra, MBBS, MRCPsych, M.Phil., M.Sc., M.A., FRCPsych, Ph.D.
Professor of Mental Health & Cultural Diversity, Section of Cultural Psychiatry, Health Service and Population Research Department, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College, London, UK

Lise Bouchard Website

Lise Bouchard, Ph.D.
Director of Research, Runajambi – Institute for the Study of Quichua Culture and Health, Otavalo, Ecuador

Sioui Maldonado-Bouchard

 

Sioui Maldonado Bouchard, B.Sc. (McGill University), M.Sc. (Université de Montréal), completing a Ph.D. in Neuroscience (Texas A&M University), Research Assistant, Runajambi – Institute for the Study of Quichua Culture and Health, Otavalo, Ecuador

Mason Durie

Mason Durie, M.D.
Psychiatrist and Professor of Maori Research and Development, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand

M Fakhr El-Islam

M. Fakhr El-Islam, M.D., FRCP, FRCPsych
Academic Consultant, Behman Hospital, Helwan, Cairo, Egypt

 

 

Nitin Gupta, M.D.
South Staffordshire and Shropshire, Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Burton on Trent, Staffordshire, UK

Jeffrey Henderson Website

 

Jeffrey A. Henderson, M.D., M.P.H.
Black Hills Center for American Indian Health, Rapid City, SD, USA

Mario Incayawar Website

Mario Incayawar, M.D., M.Sc., Ph.D. (Quichua/Inca)
Director, Runajambi – Institute for the Study of Quichua Culture and Health, Otavalo, Ecuador.

Former Henry R. Luce, Professor in Brain, Mind and Medicine: Cross-Cultural Perspectives, Pitzer, Claremont McKenna, and Harvey Mudd Colleges, California, USA

Robert Lemelson

 

Robert B. Lemelson, Ph.D.
Research Anthropologist, Semel Institute of Neuroscience, UCLA, California, USA

Spero M Manson Website

 

Spero M. Manson, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor and Director, Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health, School of Public Health, Anschutz Medical Center, University of Colorado Denver, Colorado, USA

Juan E. Mezzich

 

Juan E. Mezzich, M.D., Ph.D.
President of the World Psychiatric Association, 2005-2008

Dan L. Mkize Website

Dan L. Mkize, MB ChB, DCH, MFGP, DFM, M Med(Psych)
Professor of Psychiatry, Nelson Mandela School of Medicine, Univeristy of KwaZulu- Natal, Durban, South Africa

Fumitaka Noda Website

Fumitaka Noda, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Human Welfare, Faculty of Human Studies, Taisho University, Tokyo, Japan; Adjunct Professor, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Joan Obiols-Llandrich Website

Joan Obiols-Llandrich, M.D., Ph.D.
Psychiatrist and Anthropologist, Director Mental Health Services, Andorra; Professor of Mental Health, University of Andorra

Antti Pakaslahti

 

Antti Pakaslahti, M.D., Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor of Transcultural Psychiatry, School of Public Health, University of Tampere, Finland
Photo: Jukka Mykkänen

Raymond H. Prince, M.D.

 

Raymond H. Prince, M.D., M.Sc.
Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry
McGill University, Montreal, Canada

 

 

James H. Shore, M.D.
University of Colorado Denver, Department of Psychiatry, American Indian and Alaska Native Programs, Aurora, Colorado, USA

 

 

Jay H. Shore, M.D., M.P.H.
University of Colorado Denver, Department of Psychiatry, American Indian and Alaska Native Programs, Aurora, Colorado, USA

 

 

Ajoy Thachil, MBBS, MRCPsych.
Walport Academic Clinical Fellow, Section of Cultural Psychiatry, Health Service and Population Research Department, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College, London, UK

 

 

Karuna R. Thompson, M.A., Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Religious Studies, University of the West, Rosemead, California; Chaplain, Federal Bureau of Prisons, Lompoc, California, USA

Dr. Vijoy Varma

Vijoy K. Varma, M.D., D.M.P., M.Sc., FRCPsych, FAMS
Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA

Ron Wintrob Website

Ronald Wintrob, M.D.
WPA-Transcultural Psychiatry Section, Warren Alpert School of Medicine, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA

Xudong Zhao Website

Xudong Zhao, Dr., Med.
Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, Tongji University Medical School, Shanghai, China

Facts on psychiatrists

It is estimated that in low-income countries there is one psychiatrist for one million people.

In Ecuador, there is one Quichua psychiatrist for a population of 5 million Indigenous People.

Facts on traditional healers

In Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia, the ratio of traditional healers to general population is 1:200 to 1:400, constrasting dramatically with Western trained health professionals for which the ratio is 1:20 000.

In the sub-Saharan Africa, traditional healers outnumber biomedically-oriented health practitioners by 100 to 1

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