International Health Humanities Network Membership

I am a consultation liaison psychiatrist at a busy public hospital, and part of the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center clinical faculty. My undergranduate education centered largely in the biological sciences, but I gravitated towards literature, social science and the arts. Eventually I switched from internal medicine to psychitary, where I specialize in working with medically ill patients, and especially with medical problems including physical trauma, substance use, HIV, and dementia and delirium. I sought additional training in ethics and the law through a masters program in the study of law. My educational efforts range from instructing medical students and residents in interviewing techniques that draw on narrative practices to strengthen therapeutic alliances, critical thinking, public health ethics, and the social sciences and medical practice. I am very involved in our medical center's focus on narrative medicine as well as cultural issues in health care. I great enjoy utilizing essays, short stories, poem, graphic novels, painting and film for discussion with our trainees. Conferences on the health humanities have been some of the most creative, enriching and rewarding events in my academic life, and I am grateful to the innovative and passionate efforts of my very diverse colleagues to explore the interplay of medical practice and the humanities.

I am a psychiatrist at San Francisco General Hospital, and faculty at UC San Francisco.  I use the humanities (stories, poems, essays and film) in teaching, including a weekly seminar for students and other trainees. We cover issues including cultural identity, spirituality, ethics, and coping with illness. 

Lecturer in history at the University of Huddersfield in the UK. Interests in the history of mental health care and learning disability and collaborative/community projects.

http://www.hud.ac.uk/research/researchcentres/mentalhealthandlearningdisabilitiesheritageandstigma/

I am a historical geographer with interests in environmental and climate history. My work focuses on human responses to climate variability and extreme weather events in historical perspective. 

Artist/Faculty Bio: I am Associate Professor in the University of Washington School of Nursing, Seattle; Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies; and Affiliate Faculty in the UW Certificate Program in Public Scholarship. I teach health policy, community/public health, and narrative medicine/health humanities courses. Since 1986, I have worked as a nurse practitioner providing community-based primary health care to homeless and refugee populations on both coasts of the United States. The focus of my career has been to increase an understanding of the lives of marginalized populations, and to improve their access to effective health care.

My scholarship is community and practice-based, applied to real world 'wicked' problems of homelessness, gender-based violence, and access to health care. My essays have appeared in The Sun, The Oberlin Alumni Magazine, Pulse: Voices From the Heart of Medicine, Silk Road, The Intima, The Examined Life Journal, Johns Hopkins Public Health Magazine, and in the anthology I Wasn't Strong Like This When I Started Out: True Stories of Becoming a Nurse, edited by Lee Gutkind. I write a blog, Medical Margins, on health policy and nursing. My debut medical memoir, Catching Homelessness: A Nurse's Story of Falling Through the Safety Net (Berkely: She Writes Press, 2016) has been chosen to be the University of Washington Health Sciences Common Book for AY 2016/17. 

Through my writing and photography I engage in critiques of current social justice issues such as poverty and homelessness, trauma and resilience, and the wellbeing of marginalized populations. As a nurse and academic with the lived experience of homelessness, my writing and photography are ways to explore possible answers to complex ethical and existential questions. My aim is to humanize health care, to cultivate empathy leading to action.

Ikechukwu is a Lecturer at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka that uses theatre and film to communicate health messages. A Nigerian of Igbo extraction. He holds a B.A in Theatre Arts, an M.A and PhD in Theatre and Film Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Ikechukwu has written articles and presented papers in national and international conferences. The title of his PhD thesis is 'Space and Place of Drama in Health Humanities  (2016).

My film titled Female Condoms are Peerless is a finalist in the international film contest organized by PATH,the Universal Access to Female Condoms (UAFC) Joint Programme, the Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE), and the National Female Condom Coalition (NFCC). 

I am a psychologist at the Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Psychiatry where I head the Program in Aesthetics and Well Being,

as well as an Assistant Clinical Professor at Harvard Medical School. My  main areas of study and research are the neuroscience of emotion and the science of

beauty. I teach two seminars to Harvard undergraduates on the science of happiness, and have written extensively about beauty,

including the book Survivial of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty, published by Random House in 1999.  I maintain a private

practice in clinical psychology. I graduated from Brown University, have a  Master's in Education from Harvard University, a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Boston University, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in cognitive neuroscience at MIT.

A brief profile of the Foundation

Indonesia Mental Health Care Foundation is an nongovernmental organization, community, housing and social activities initiated by dr. Rama Giovani, Sp.KJ (psychiatrist) as Founder and Ade Binarko (social activist and media) as well as assisting by dr. Noki Irawan Saputra, Sp.KJ (psychiatrist) and dr. Anindita, December 10, 2013 blaze that where it is moved from its activities as well as daily activities as a psychiatrist who serve the community in the city and be some areas in West Java. After meeting with his old colleague Ade and dr. Anindita who live in the city, they agreed to build a community that aims to assist and educate the public in dealing with psychological problems including patients and the community of people with mental health disorders such as mild to severe; stress, depression, trauma anxiety disorders (panic disorder), bipolar up to chronic as schizophenia.

Indonesia Mental Health Care seeks to serve and educate people into the Movement of Healthy Mental Indonesia (GSMI) by way of consultation through social media such as twitter, facebook or youtube videos as well as tips on the website and also a workshop or seminar sharing time that started to be held in mid 2014. Indonesia Mentality Care hopes people with mild or severe mental disorders receive care and good handling and decent amid high costs that can be helped in living life with a positive, normal and live a better life, healthier psychologically and physically.

Mental Health Movement Indonesia by the Mental Health Foundation of Indonesia, trying to understand mental disorders in a variety of science and social life of society. To overcome this mental disorder by doing work and research programs as well as more emphasis on the aspect of prevention, the promotion of mental health services as well as preventive and promotive role of community / volunteer in assisting the optimization of individual mental functioning.

Background Mental Health in Indonesia :

Indonesian public awareness on health and mental disorders are still fairly minimal or less, as well as the lack of public education about the importance of good mental health from the central government, local, private and individual. The existence of stigma from society even highly educated individuals as well as professionals and lack of knowledge of the importance of mental health to make these conditions worse. Mental health problems, especially mental disorders can indirectly reduce the productivity is at this point where many starts in the productive age. To anticipate this, it is necessary to good mental health services.

Capturing the many mental health and psychosocial problems that occur at this time in Indonesian society is the main problem in a variety of life including; stress, depression, trauma, violence, suicide, delinquency, drug use, deprivation, radicalism, mental health issues in the workplace and the family as well as others. Given the magnitude of mental health problems, then there should be an increase in the degree of mental health. Prevention and control of this issue will not succeed without the awareness of all of the central government, local government, the private sector and community organizations.

Therefore our Mental Health Foundation Indonesia an organization concerned with it by increasing and developing efforts to establish mental health status, moving and empowering people to live healthier and to increase public access to a quality service.

Vision and mission of the foundation :

Foundation and / or the Healthy Mental Indonesia was established fully to achieve the objectives in the field of mental health / mental, social, humanitarian and education in order to support and / or care Movement Healthy Mental (Mental) on the Indonesian people to services and treatment good and decent as well as to raise funds and gather volunteers / or members.

Being a reliable foundation to build independence to be able to utilize the program of rescue, rehabilitation, health, education and advocacy. Build collaboration and / or partnerships with community, corporate, government and non-governmental organizations in the country and abroad with the aim of fully utuk provide services in the field of mental health and / or life to the beneficiaries.

1. Vision Mental Health Foundation Indonesia:

a. The Foundation's vision is to restore the hegemony nation of Indonesia in the eyes of the world, through the activities of Concern for Mental Health, Social, Humanitarian, Education, Training and / or Mental Health Education through the motions of Indonesia.

b. Become a trusted institution in building self-reliance.

2. Mission Mental Health Foundation Indonesia:

a. Sturdy internally through coaching board with the concept of integrated management.

b. Build integrated systems in the areas of health, social, humanitarian, education and guidance on the basis of empowering communities.

c. Realizing the community empowerment program that is effective, efficient and useful.

d. Developing partnerships with community, corporate, government and non-governmental organizations at home and abroad.

e. Build a strong community has intelligence behavioral, social, spiritual, A Learning achievement and good work, faster and more responsive to the state of society and the environment.

f. Build and develop independence to utilize the rescue and rehabilitation program.

g. Providing services such as information, education, training, advocacy and / or perilindungan to patients with mental disorders as well as beneficiaries.

3. The purpose of the establishment of the Foundation is:

a. Realizing the movement of Indonesian society into "MENTAL HEALTH INDONESIA" which means: "The State and the Nation of healthy mental and intelligence in behavior, social life, spiritual, academic achievement and good work, extensive and authoritative".

b. Develop and build a new paradigm of positive thinking, critical thinking, creative thinking and discreet and raise awareness in the environment to make it more to create harmony in life, as well as preparing the next generation of quality.

c. Mobilize and gather volunteers / or members who gathered in the Association of Community Mental Health Volunteers Indonesia in English (Association Community Mental Health Volunteers Indonesia).

d. Moto Mental Health Foundation Indonesia Society movement, the Nation "Mental Healthy Indonesia" by working Smart, Completed and Professional.

Mental Health Foundation Work Program Indonesia :

In order to improve the mental health and to achieve the purposes and objectives of the foundation run work programs or activities both for short term and long term. In accordance with the Articles of Association (AD) and Bylaws (HAART) consisting of Health (Health), Social (Social), Education (Education) and Humanitarian (Humanity).

The main focus of the Mental Health Foundation's activities Indonesia do counseling services for people with personality disorders or psychological disorders (mental), especially in children, adolescents and the elderly. Conduct periodic or regular education about psychological disorders including addiction disorders (substance abuse disorder) for the general public.

Mental Health Foundation Indonesia run the program the following activities ;

a. Free Mental Check-Up and Counseling Program
The health program with checks and mental health screening and free consultation on all societies both children, adolescents and adults that are handled by professional psychologists and psychiatrists. So that people can detect mental disorders early and get treatment and provide the best solution, true and correct.

b. Mental Health Mobile Clinic Programs
The development of mobile clinics Mental Health Foundation, Indonesia is a program of free mental health services for remote communities and victims of natural disasters. Car mental health clinic providing mental health care facilities that are equipped with medical devices, pharmaceuticals, medical professionals and educate the importance of mental health and healthy life for the community.
With the car mental health clinics are expected to handling a wide range of mental health problems can diatasasi direct and real, can give good results and significant and can tackle quality of life.

c. 1 Million Mental Health Educator Program.
Educational programs by creating a mental health educator volunteers to provide free education about mental health and psychology lesson early on to the entire community in Indonesia from Sabang to Merauke, divided widespread in all areas of both cities to inland villages. In order to increase awareness and understanding about the importance of good mental health is the foundation of fundamental importance to improve human resources in Indonesia, especially the younger generation to be more responsible, nice, honest, tough and character.

d. Scholarships For Mental Health Study Program.
Mental Health Foundation of Indonesia contributed to the world of education in Indonesia, especially the Mental Health. This step begins with the realization that the educational psychology and psychiatric (psychiatrist) is an effort to improve the health of people in Indonesia so that people and nations can realize the future of mental health care better.
Mental Health Foundation of Indonesia take an active role in realizing the mental health education in Indonesia through a scholarship program achievement (Scholarships For Mental Health Study) for students with disadvantaged backgrounds and achievement.

e. 1000 Books For Mental Health Education Program.
Free books on education and educational importance of mental health that was released by the Mental Health Foundation of Indonesian writers, equipped with self provisioning as well as a wide range of information related to mental disorders (There Is No Health Without Mental Health).
The provision of free books is one of concern for the Mental Health Foundation of Indonesia on the importance of mental health in the community, especially the younger generation and the promotion of mental health care efforts in preventive and promotive.

f. Empowerment Of Persons With Mental Disabilities Program.
Mental Health Foundation of Indonesia is very concerned with people with mental disorders then made empowerment of mental disabilities, ranging from the rehabilitation of up to provide counseling, education and job skills or talents. This is done for the purpose of providing protection, equal rights, creating a social welfare efforts to improve mental disabilities (mental disability) as well as providing opportunities in aspects of life.

g. Relief For Disaster Risk and Mental Disorder.
Mental Health Foundation rescue program Indonesia in providing relief action responsive to the disaster, with specialized provide health aid healing trauma (trauma healing) for people affected by disaster victims. And assistance for people living with mental disorders who commit acts that endanger themselves and others such as suicide attempts or acts of others which lead to people becoming victims of violence.

The Mental Health Foundation of Indonesia to develop and complete facilities and infrastructure which are directly or indirectly related to the achievement of the purpose of the foundation by establishing business entities to support the achievement of the goal and objectives.

a. IMC The Indonesia Psychosocial Rehabilitation Center
Psychosocial Rehabilitation IMC is one part of the Mental Health Foundation of Indonesia. Organizing a psychosocial rehabilitation center to provide mental health care and treatment for healing and recovery, hospitalized and treated with exclusive, intensive and in full control. Social protection of children, the care of patients with mental disabilities or psychological personality disorder, rehabilitation and care of people with addiction disorders or drug abuse. This service is held open to the public and free of charge for patients who can not afford.
Psychosocial Rehabilitation contained in the IMC program Daycar where the service is provided at noon with a holding facility providing care; personal hygiene, lunch, recreation, group meetings, individual counseling and intervention, collective programs, education, pelaatihan life skills and social skills as well as other protective activitie.

b. IMC Integrated Assessment & Development Center
Build integrated service center that focuses on the development (level of thinking), assessing and analyzing the human resources accurately to test the mental health MMPI 2 (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory), psychological test, test system Management of talent (Strength Typology), health counseling 'TOTAL mental and drug test.
IMC Integrated Assessment Center as a methodology, a standardized evaluation of the behavior of individuals using a variety of behavioral simulation and test instruments. Through a variety of materials testing, personality evaluation instruments and interviews, the assessors are trained in observation of the behavior of participants assessi; and then give a final assessment of the development assessment and feedback. Results of assessment and feedback value is expected to be a valuable contribution to improving the quality and mental health in Indonesia.
Interest process Integrated Assessment & Development Center is to provide an overview of the dimensions of personality and psychopathology in psychiatric clinic is important accurately. The process of assessment tests as an official tool of mental diagnoses by psychiatrists and psychologists, serves as a tool to view and measure the psychological dynamic picture of personality mainly related to aspects of mental health in general.

In its efforts to implement the program of work and mental health services are preventive and promotive, the Foundation of Healthy Mental Indonesia provide added value in generating and maximizing the solution of problems either individuals, groups and institutions based on the methods of science-based cognitive neuroscience and psychotherapy based on cognitive as step technique to understand the process in thinking, decision-making and behavioral studies in outline.

Daisy Fancourt is Senior Research Associate/Wellcome Research Fellow in the Psychobiology Group, Department of Behavioural Science and Health at UCL. Daisy completed her PhD in psychoneuroimmunology at UCL, undertaking postdoctoral work in the Centre for Performance Science (a partnership of the Royal College of Music and the Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College London) before returning to UCL in 2017. Alongside her research, she has worked for over 7 years in the NHS, including at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital managing arts and clinical innovations programmes, working alongside clinicians to devise interventions to improve patient experience and clinical outcomes.

Daisy is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health and the Deputy Chair of their Special Interest Group on Arts and Health. She also established and chairs the International Arts Health Early Career Research Network. She holds honorary positions in the Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London and the Centre for Arts in Medicine at the University of Florida. Daisy is a BBC New Generation Thinker and a World Economic Forum Global Shaper.

My PhD examined collective identity narratives during Cuba's two twentieth-century revolutions and posited liminality as a tool to explore alternative archetypes of cubanía.

I am now researching dementia narratives in three Latin American countries (Cuba, Colombia, Mexico). My project aims to:

• establish inter-disciplinary networks of researchers, health professionals, people with dementia and carers in those countries in order to better understand the economic and welfare challenges of the disease in their countries and to gauge the potential of (and lay the foundations for) future collaborative research and practice;
• collate and analyse a multi-genre corpus of Latin American ‘dementia narratives’ in order to ask critical & intersecting questions about:

           - the experience and ‘meaning’ of dementia beyond clinical diagnosis as a means of re-centring people in the understanding and description of their disease;
           - the novel narratological tools needed to insightfully analyse narratives of lives affected by an illness that undermines some of the building blocks of  self-expression;
           - the potential for truly inter-disciplinary exchange through which the Humanities can offer expert insights to medical professionals working with dementia;
           - the potential of dementia narratives to raise awareness and reduce fear about the disease whilst also exploring the therapeutic possibilities of narrative and self-narrative in dementia care
           - the potential for dementia narratives to act as an important vector for inter-cultural communication within Latin America and between Latin America and the UK.

I have taught in Spanish & Latin American Studies departments in the University of Nottingham, KCL, UCL and am now based at Aston University.