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The Yale Department of Psychiatry’s Accountability, Respect, Community, and Humanity (ARCH) group held its second event February 5 in its Leadership Pathway Meet and Greet Series. The speakers were Joy Kaufman, PhD, deputy chair for career development; Kirsten Wilkins, MD, interim deputy chair for education; and John Cahill, MD, residency program director.

The PEER management team is excited to announce that Joanna Meyer has assumed the role of director. Michael Strambler, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry, will continue to serve on the PEER management team as co-director.

John Krystal, MD, chair of the Yale Department of Psychiatry, was the first guest at the Accountability, Respect, Community, and Humanity (ARCH) Leadership Pathway Meet and Greet Series.

Cultural stigma toward mental health care, medical mistrust, and insurance barriers keep many Black men from seeking and receiving mental health care, research shows.

Michael J. Strambler, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry, has been appointed as an inaugural 2025-26 senior fellow at the new Yale Center for Civic Thought.

Michael Strambler, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry, has been named a 2025-26 Faculty Fellow to the Segal Center for Academic Pluralism.

Rachel Ouellette, PhD, associate research scientist in the Division of Prevention and Community Research, The Consultation Center, and the Yale Center for the Study of Tobacco Product Use and Addiction has been awarded a two-year Yale Center for Clinical Investigation (YCCI) Scholar Award for junior faculty members committed to research careers focused on improving human health.

Elizabeth H. Connors, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry and in The Child Study Center, has been appointed as the director of training for the Yale Doctoral Internship in Clinical and Community Psychology.

Yale researchers Sandra Resnick, PhD; Jessica Barber, PhD; Amber W. Childs, PhD; and Elizabeth Connors, PhD, are co-authors of a paper in World Psychiatry that calls on the global mental health community to explore measurement-based care (MBC) in a wider range of interventions and settings, including innovative suggestions to advance MBC in low and middle income countries.