Global Health Research & Innovation Series
Reflections on Mental Health Work in Post-Conflict Aceh, 2004-2024
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM ET
Virtual
Professor Byron Good will present "Reflections on Mental Health Work in Post-Conflict Aceh, 2004–2024," drawing on two decades of experience in the region. Following the devastating 2004 tsunami that struck Aceh and revealed an ongoing civil conflict to the international community, a peace accord was signed in 2005 that ended much of the violence. In the years that followed, Professor Good and Professor Mary-Jo Good partnered with the International Organization for Migration to lead mental health initiatives in the post-conflict areas. This included a large-scale Psychosocial Needs Assessment and the development of mental health outreach teams serving 75 villages. In this session, Professor Good will share insights from the program’s implementation and outcomes, and reflect on the enduring role and impact of mental health interventions in post-conflict recovery.
This event is free and open to the public.Speaker
Byron Good, PhD, BD
Professor of Medical Anthropology, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and Department of Anthropology, Harvard UniversityProfessor Good is a medical, psychological and psychiatric anthropologist. Professor Good has been carrying out research focused on subjectivity, culture and mental illness in Indonesia since 1996 – on studies of psychosis and the development of mental health services in Yogyakarta, Java, and on humanitarianism and mental health responses to traumatic violence in Aceh. He has conducted and led studies of early experiences of psychosis in Indonesia, as well as comparative projects of first episode psychosis in Indonesia, China, Hong Kong, and the United States.
Professor Good gave the 2000 Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures and Oxford University's 2010 Marett Lecture. He was awarded the Society for Medical Anthropology's Lifetime Mentoring Award in 2000 and the Society for Psychological Anthropology's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017. He was the President of the Society for Psychological Anthropology 2013-2015. He served as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 1986-2004.
Speakers will share their own perspectives; they do not speak for the university.
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