Yale Global Mental Health

The Yale Global Mental Health Program (GMHP) exists to supplement and support existing didactic and clinical curriculum of the residency program. Residents/fellows interested in doing GMHP-related education may do so during elective times and during selective experiences. The Global Mental Health Elective experiences will be open to all residents/fellows in the program and to others in the medical school and university.

The goals of the Yale Global Mental Health Program are:

• Global Mental Health Awareness: To promote awareness of issues of global mental health and social disparities.
• Practical Implementation in Clinical Settings: To develop practice tools to address these issues both at home and abroad.
• Underserved Access to Care: To promote interest in working with underserved populations within and outside the United States that are in need of mental health services.
• Cross Cultural Psychiatry in Practice: To expand the knowledge of cross cultural psychiatry and provide ways for residents to incorporate that knowledge into their clinical practice of psychiatry.
• Networking: To develop within and external to the department of psychiatry a network of individuals with common interests in global mental health from which collaborative ideas and projects can spring.

Leadership of the Global Mental Health Program:
Resident Leaders: – Paul Eigenberger & Sanya Sellers
Faculty Advisors: – Ted Iheanacho, Michelle Silva, & Hamada Altalib

Among the topics recently discussed are:

• The Intersection of GMH and Addiction: Methadone Maintenance in China
• Conducting Scholarly Work in GHM
• Autism Awareness and Research in Pakistan
• Global Mental Health RCT in Prayer Camps in Ghana
• GMH and International Law
• Psych Corps Program in Ghana
• The Changing Health Needs Among Refugees in Protracted Crisis - An Example of Syrian Refugees in Lebanon
• Disaster Psychiatry
• Mental Health Care Responses to the Nepal Earthquakes: From Humanitarian Emergencies to Sustainable Mental Health Systems
• YGMHP Project Presentations in Africa
• GMH in Peru
• Exploring Early Interventions for Psychosis in LMIC
• YGMHP Projects Presentations from Asia
• Mental Health of Children and Adolescents Traumatized by Violence
• YGMHP Project Presentations in the Middle East