Global health psychology: Jess Ghannam at TEDxUNPlaza

Dr. Jess Ghannam is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Global Health Sciences in the School of Medicine at UCSF. Dr. Ghannam has developed community health clinics in the Middle East that focus on developing community-based treatment programs
for families in crisis. He is also a consultant with the Center for Constitutional Rights, Reprieve and other international NGO's that work with torture survivors. Locally he works to promote and enhance the health and wellness of refugee, displaced, and immigrant populations from the Middle East,North Africa and South Asia and has established community-based Mental Health Treatment Programs to support these communities.

Keep up with Dr. Ghannam's work on twitter @jessghannam

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[tedkhoury]

Fantastic talk. Highly recommended for university classroom settings to inspire community health based activism and intervention.

[msnadiak]

Fantastic talk and I now have a better understanding of Global Health Psychology of which I knew nothing about up until now.

[felifeldfrosch]

crazy cool what they did!! ...I respect that very much

[beugenio]

Unfortunately, he sponsors sofia university which used to be called institute of transpersonal psychology in Palo Alto, Ca. The school engages in deceiving and fraudulent enrollment of minority students. What's worse, staff and the founders sponsor, over and over, new age teachers which engage students in resource draining and often dangerous "transpersonal practices" I submitted grievances to the school. The school never responded and quickly rebranded and merge with another school. The school preyed on students who have a broad interest in social impact, mindfulness, etc. Tedtalk should review speakers' backgrounds more thoroughly.

[luisamariegonzalez]

+ + + more conditions I feel like a bomb 💣 about to explode wit so many chronic illnesses

[drewbeedoo]

he says we have a problem in "our own backyard" then immediately talks about refugees in other countries, only appealing to pathos. manipulative waste of time.