World Association of Cultural Psychiatry Webinar
Integrating Lived Expertise in Mental Health Research and Practice With Individuals and Families
Webinar chair: Roberto Lewis-Fernández, MD
Webinar presenters:
Oscar Jiménez-Solomon, PhD, MPH, Assistant Director, Center for Excellence for Cultural Competence, New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University Medical Center, NY
Charlotte Clous, MSc, Transcultural Advisor, Veldzicht Centre for Transcultural Psychiatry, PhD candidate, University Medical Centre of Groningen, The Netherlands
Riyadh Al-Baldawi, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Consultant, MCHS University, Karolinska University, Sweden
Vincenzo Di Nicola, MPhil, MD, PhD, FRCPC, DLFAPA, DFCPA, FCAHS, FACPsych, FRSC, Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry & Addictions, University of Montreal
In recent decades, lived experience has emerged as a vital source of epistemic authority in mental health research and practice, challenging conventional boundaries between clinicians, researchers, and those with lived experience of mental distress. This symposium explores lived experience as a form of knowledge that can deepen our understanding of mental health, family, and culture, and illuminate the social and cultural dynamics shaping inequities in care.
Through interdisciplinary dialogue across psychiatry, psychotherapy, anthropology, and sociology, we examine how lived expertise - rooted in personal, clinical, and social experience - can inform more just, inclusive, and contextually grounded approaches.
This Webinar is free of cost and open to the public.
