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Course... 1 L i m a H o s t s Int er national Course on lence, and memory and violence between generations in
Mental Health and Wellbeing Ayacucho. Approximately 140 people attended the course,
Book...1
t h e I m p a c t o f V i o l ence o n Hea l t h including physicians and psychologists from Lima, Ayacu-
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TGH Teams Conduct Mid-term cho and beyond. This is the fourth international course or-
Evaluations... 2 rom April 2-4, Peru’s
ganized by the Trauma & Global Health Program.
Mental Health Forum...2 National Academy of
TGH Team Members Awarded Medicine and the Trauma
Grant...2
TGH Team Leader Inducted
& Global Health Program
into National Academy of held a course on the im-
Medicine...3 pact of violence on health.
Sri Lankan Nurses to Receive Dr. Duncan Pedersen and
Training Program...3 Dr. Allan Young (McGill
Psychiatry Student Wins CIHR
Award...3
University) and Michel
TGH Sri Lanka Developing Tousignant (University of
Mental Health Training...4 Montreal) participated as
Training the Next Generation of speakers on important top-
Researchers...4 ics such as organized vio-
TGH Team Members Publish Michel Tousignant, Duncan Pedersen, and Allan Young in Lima, Peru
Two New Articles...4
lence, trauma and mental
health; traumatic memory;
Small Grant Awarded...4
traumatic experiences,
Mental Health and Wellbeing Book Now
Training Community-Based
Psychological Counselors...4 suicide and resilience in Available
Photographer Trains Lens on indigenous populations in
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TGH Partner..5 he book Mental Health and Wellbeing by Chamindra
Trauma Research Takes the
Canada; consequences
of violence in Quechuas Weerackody and Suman Fernando published by PRDA
Stage...5
CIHR Journalism Award...5 populations in Ayacucho; and Oxfam America (2009) is now available at bookshops
Nepal’s New Research on and violence prevention. in Colombo, as well as directly from Hanna Kienzler (han-
Counseling...5 Dr. Ana Maria Silva, Dr. na.kienzler@mail.mcgill.ca). The book’s authors are also
notes from the field...6-8
Gloria Cueva, anthropologist Jeffrey Gamarra and, core publishing an article entitled, “Challenges in Developing
members of the Peruvian TGH team gave talks on top- Community Mental Health Services in Sri Lanka” in a forth-
calendar...9
ics such as psychotherapy and treatment of victims of vio- coming issue of the Journal of Health Management.
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Mapping our Progress: TGH Teams Conduct Mid-term and peaceful conflict resolution between people from different cultures.
Dr. Victor Cuba, Dean of the School of Public Health of Universidad Peru-
Evaluations
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ana Cayetano Heredia, gave the opening address. Dr. Duncan Pedersen
rauma & Global Health Program
contributed on the history and context of political violence and interethnic
teams have successfully completed
conflicts via Skype. An additional three speakers, all well-known experts,
their mid-term evaluations and reported
talked about the history and culture of the Amazonia’s indigenous popula-
on their progress. The evaluations were
tions, their views about mental health, the dialogue between the Peruvian
conducted using Outcome Mapping,
Government and these populations, and how violence may emerge as a
a progress measurement system de-
consequence of national fragmentation and cultural exclusion. The clos-
signed by the International Development
ing address was delivered by Dr. Humberto Guerra, Vice-Chancellor of
Research Centre (IDRC) to address the
Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia. Approximately 150 people par-
challenge of comprehensively assess-
ticipated in the seminar, among them members of the Ministry of Health,
ing and reporting development impacts.
Ministry of Education, Ministry of Justice, International Labor Organiza-
Outcome Mapping differs from tradi-
tion, NGOs, university professors and students. A number of profession-
tional metrics of evaluation by acknowl-
als from the Amazonia who work in the jungle were also in attendance.
edging relationships between people,
organizations, and environments as the
essence of development and by shifting TGH Team Members Awarded Knowledge Translation
the focus from a program’s products to and Exchange Grant
the behavioural changes exhibited by its
Duncan Pedersen, together with his Trauma & Global Health Program
participants and potential beneficiaries. colleagues in Nepal (Bhogendra Sharma, CVICT) and Guatemala (Vic-
tor Lopez, CIBP) are the recipients of a new Teasdale-Corti Knowledge
Mental Health Forum Brings Cultures Together Translation and Exchange Supplementary Grant for their proposal titled
KTE: Linking research with mental health policy and practices. The
TGH Team Leader Inducted into the Peruvian National Sri Lankan Nurses to Receive Training of Trainers
Academy of Medicine Program
I n a ceremony held on
April 2, Trauma & Glob-
al Health Program Team
T he Trauma & Global Health Program is planning another series of
training sessions for late November or early December 2009 at the
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) in Angoda, near Colombo. The
Leader Dr. Duncan Ped- program will be offered mainly to nurses and will take a Training of Train-
ersen became an official ers format, allowing a few nurses to be trained to sustain on-going train-
corresponding member of ing.
the National Academy of
Medicine. Dr. Melitón Arce
Rodriguez, President of
Psychiatry Student Wins CIHR Award to Study
the National Academy of Violence & Mental Health
Medicine and Vice-minis-
ter of Public Health, cited
Dr. Pedersen’s important N icole D’souza, Master’s student in McGill’s
Social & Transcultural Psychiatry Program,
has been granted the Canadian Institute of
contributions to policyand
Dr. Duncan Pedersen (left) receiving the honour Health Research (CIHR) Master’s Award to in-
from Dr. Melitón Arce Rodriguez (right) health services research,
and interventions in the vestigate the long-term effects of violence on
fields of mental health, traditional medicine and public health in Peru. Dr. the mental health of the aging female popula-
Arce Rodriguez also noted and commended the particular relation estab- tions in Peru. From October to December 2009,
lished with medical colleagues across the country and long term commit- she will be working in Lima with the TGH Peru
ment to Peru shown by Dr. Pedersen’s work for over three decades. The team on various ongoing projects. Prior to her
entire Trauma & Global Health Program team congratulates Dr. Pedersen enrollment in the Master’s program, Nicole re-
for this prestigious award and recognition of his invaluable services to ceived her B.Sc in Psychology from the Univer-
Peru. sity of Toronto.
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TGH in Sri Lanka Developing Men- health research summer school, mentoring sup- Small Grant Awarded for Explor-
port, thematic seminars, and the development
tal Health Training Modules of a best practices guide for the training of future
atory Study in Peru
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he Sri Lankan Trauma & Global Health Pro- global health research leaders. Congratulations he Trauma & Global Health Program has
gram team is in the process of developing to the Principal Investigators: Duncan Peders- awarded a Small Grant to Irene Hofmeijer,
training modules for mental health professionals en, Pierre Fournier, and Slim Haddad, and their student at the McGill School of Environment, for
and workers such as community support work- colleagues at McGill University, l’Université de her research in Peru. Irene’s work aims to test
ers and social workers, hopefully to be delivered Montréal, l’Université de Québec à Montréal, and validate the McGill Illness Narrative Inter-
in co-operation with the Ministry of Social Ser- and l’Université Laval. Stay tuned to our website view with a sample of urban-poor women, as well
vices, National Institute of Social Development for further information as the training program as to generate hypotheses linking differences in
and the Directorate of Mental Health. Initial develops. residence location with impact on psychological
drafts cover (a) training for community mental wellbeing. Congratulations to Irene on behalf of
health, (b) training in mental health and wellbe- TGH Team Members Publish Two the Trauma & Global Health team.
ing and (c) training of trainers programs. New Articles
Training Community-Based Psycho-
Photographer Trains Lens on TGH of doctors, lawyers, and other researchers and Nepal’s New Research on Psycho-
professionals working in the global health field.
Program Partner For more information about the conference or to
logical Counseling
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download Dr. Pedersen’s presentation, please
reelance photographer Jan Adamski recent- he Trauma & Global Health Program’s
visit: http://www.mcgill.ca/globalhealth/confer-
ly spent some time in Guatemala with Medi- team in Nepal has recently initiated a new
ence2009/
cos Delcazos, an NGO that has been working research project entitled, "Mapping of Psycho-
with the Trauma & Global Health Program. For a social Counselors.” The main objectives of the
sample of some of his work in photojournalism, CIHR Journalism Award Supports research are to understand the state of psycho-
please visit: http://colectivonomada.com/fotoen- Reporting on TGH Program in Sri social counseling in Nepal; to find out the chal-
sayo/cosmos-maya/ lenges faced by counselors while providing ser-
Lanka vices; and to analyze the need of counselors in
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the field of psychosocial counseling. Research
Trauma Research Takes the Stage at isa-Marie Gervais, journalist for Le Devoir, results will also be used to modify the existing
McGill Global Health Conference was among the recipients of the first Cana- course on Psychosocial Counseling. To date,
dian Institute of Health Research Journalism
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ten counselors, five program coordinators and
n May 8, 2009, McGill University hosted its Awards presented on March 10 in Ottawa. Ms. six clients from Dang, Surkhet, Nepalgunj and
third annual global health conference, enti- Gervais will be traveling to Sri Lanka to report Bardiya districts have been interviewed using a
tled “Building and Maintaining Sustainable Glob- on the Trauma & Global Health Program’s initia- semi-structured interview schedule. Data collec-
al Health Partnerships.” Trauma & Global Health tives. The 2008 CIHR Journalism Awards gave tion in the Kathmandu valley will commence in
Program Team Leader, Dr. Duncan Pedersen, 19 Canadian journalists critical extra resources the near future.
delivered his presentation “Rethinking Trauma to conduct additional in-depth investigation and
as a Global Challenge: Medical, Social and Epi reporting of health research issues of interest to
demiological Perspectives” to a rapt audience Canadians.
what’s new?
Have something to share with the rest of the team? Send your news and feedback to Tamsyn
Farr at tamsyn.farr@gmail.com
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Sri Lanka: Visiting IDP Camps in Sri Lanka: Mental health activities in Kalmunai
Vavuniya
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calendar
September 22, 2009 October 19-21, 2009
GHR-CAPS General Assembly Teasdale-Corti Team Meeting
Canada Cairo, Egypt
The "Global Health Research Capacity Strengthening Pro- The Teasdale-Corti teams are scheduled to come together in
gram (GHR-CAPS) will initiate its activities this coming month Cairo this fall to evaluate the program's contribution in global
of September. A full day general assembly meeting is planned health and research capacity building, as well as to contribute
on September 22, 2009 with the participation of all Canadian to the further development of the Teasdale-Corti program.
researchers and mentors.
October 29, 2009
October 6, 2009 Guest Lecture in Global Health and Environmental Change
McGill Humanitarian Studies Initiative for Residents Montreal, QC
Montreal, QC Dr. Duncan Pedersen will be giving a guest lecture on the eco-
Dr. Duncan Pedersen will be presenting information about the logical impacts on mental health to Dr. Lea Berrang Ford’s
Trauma & Global Health Program to the McGill Humanitarian Geography class at McGill University.
Studies Initiative for Residents, a multi-disciplinary program
that trains resident-physicians and fellows who have had
some previous experience in international health and/or in hu-
manitarian response to disaster and refugee crises. For more
information about the initiative, please visit: http://www.mcgill.
ca/familymed/international/hsir/