Cultural Psychiatry and Global Mental Health: Navigating Culture, Identity & Healing Across Borders

Speaker: Dr. Lisa Andermann, MPhil, MDCM, FRCPC. Moderated by Dr. Raj Rasasingham, MD, FRCPC, Director of Continuing Professional and Practice Development. Hosted by the University of Toronto.

Dr. Lisa Andermann, MPhil, MDCM, FRCPC is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto. She is Co-Chair of the Advisory Council for EDIIA in Clinical Care and Director, Toronto Addis Ababa Psychiatry Program (TAAPP).

In addition to her work at the Mount Sinai Ethnocultural ACT team, Dr. Andermann is a Consultant Psychiatrist at the Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture (ICHA); and with the Northern Psychiatric Outreach Program (NPOP-C) providing outreach to remote communities on Baffin Island. Dr. Andermann co-edited a book entitled Refuge and Resilience: Promoting Resilience and Mental Health Among Refugees and Forced Migrants (Springer, 2014). She is a former Board Member of the Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture (SSPC) and current Board Member with the World Association of Cultural Psychiatry (WACP).

She has been awarded the Harinder K. Gaind Bending the Arc Award (2023), Don Wasylenki Award for Social Responsibility in the Department of Psychiatry (2018), Amina Malko Award from the Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture (2017) and Social Responsibility Award (PGME, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, 2015) for her work with underserved and marginalized populations.

Learning Objectives:
Discuss contributions from 20 years of Toronto Addis Ababa Psychiatry Project (TAAPP)
Learn strategies for providing effective, culturally competent newcomer and refugee mental health care in Toronto and beyond
Explore impact of post-migration stressors on mental health in newcomer and refugee populations