International Health Humanities Network Membership

David Reggio completed his AHRC funded PHD at Goldsmiths College in 2005, which focused on the evolution of psychiatric reasoning and institutions on the Continent. He has received  support from the Wellcome Trust Foundation for projects dealing with changes in health and psychiatric institutions as well as the ideas shaping contemporary practice. He has been a research fellow with the University of London, a visiting senior researcher to the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation in Rio de Janeiro, and is currently a professor at the University of Western Santa Catarina, Brazil, where he oversees research and international bridge-building projects for the region and the State.

Reggio has worked and dialogued extensively with numerous historical personages in the field of human phenomenology, psychiatry and mental pathology including: Henri Maldiney (1912-), Jacques Schotte (1928-2007) and Jean Oury (1924-).

In addition to publishing numerous works on philosophy and the history of medicine and psychiatry, he is currently focusing on publishing a series of studies introducing reformist episodes of Brazilian health care, in the context of social movements and re-democratization.

Reggio has participated in numerous key events and social projects, including the Urban Heterogensis project in the state of Rio de Janeiro.

Reggio is keen to promote creative collaborative ventures at the international level, between institutions, organizations and professionals, focusing on community strategies, the valorization of voices and narratives, as well as cultural processes in the context of health and society.