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Within my reach: Shaping my career in mental health
By Mary Ottley The Carter Center Mental Health Program Graduate Assistant The week before I started as a college freshman in fall 2011, my older brother Robbie experienced his first manic episode. Later, he bravely and honestly chronicled this manic episode for the University of Georgia’s student newspaper, The Red…
‘Thinking Healthy’ to improve maternal mental health in Liberia
By Samhita Kumar and Sadie Bazur-Leidy The Carter Center’s Global Mental Health Program As a healthcare worker in Liberia, Caroline Saye knows all too well the challenges of providing mental health care, particularly to mothers and moms-to-be, because of too few practitioners. It’s why Saye says it’s so important to…
Crises hit Liberia and Haiti hard. But they’ve needed mental health support long before Covid-19.
By The Carter Center Global Behavioral Health Team Less than a decade after Ebola impacted Liberia, which sits along the North Atlantic coastline in West Africa, a new threat sweeps the globe—Covid-19. Now, as it did then, The Carter Center’s Mental Health Program is working to sustain Liberia’s mental health…
Greg Miller Interviews Vikram Patel
December 5, 2013 Former fellow Greg Miller has a new piece out in WIRED Magazine about the preeminent psychiatrist Vikram Patel. Vikram Patel, a psychiatrist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, is one of the leaders in the global mental health movement and well known for his strategy of…
Psychiatrist-Anthropologist on Mission to Help Those with Mental Illnesses in Low-Income Countries
June 27, 2013 An M.D./Ph.D. in psychiatry and medical anthropology, Dr. Brandon Kohrt, a consultant to the Carter Center Mental Health Program’s Liberia Mental Health Initiative, is undertaking innovative mental health projects in developing countries including Nepal and Liberia. In Liberia, Dr. Kohrt has assisted in researching programs to reduce…