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Alex
Cohen, Ph.D. is an anthropologist, Assistant Professor of Social
Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and a faculty member of the University
of Melbourne-Harvard Medical School Leadership Program in International
Mental Health. His interest in cultural psychiatry and mental health
dates back to his graduate work at the University of California, Los
Angeles, when he conducted fieldwork with mentally ill homeless persons
and published critiques of the cross-cultural research on schizophrenia.
Since arriving at Harvard in 1996, he has written reports for WHO on
the mental health of indigenous peoples and the effectiveness of mental
health services in primary care, co-authored articles about issues in
international mental health with Arthur Kleinman, continued to write
about his ethnographic work in Los Angeles, lived for two months in
Geel, Belgium, the site of what is probably the oldest mental health
program in the world, and coordinated the World Mental Health Project.
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