2026 McGill Summer School Program
This annual summer school in social and cultural psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology provides the conceptual background for research and clinical work in social and cultural psychiatry.
The Division of Social & Transcultural Psychiatry
The Division is a network of scholars and clinicians within the Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, devoted to promoting research, training and consultation in social and cultural psychiatry.
The broad themes of research and training conducted by members of the Division include:
Social Psychiatry
- psychiatric epidemiology
- social determinants of mental health
- community mental health
- psychiatry in primary care
- evaluation of mental health services
- global mental health
Cultural Psychiatry
- mental health of indigenous peoples
- immigrant and refugee mental health
- ethnopsychology and ethnopsychiatry
- Indigenous healing systems
- responding to diversity in mental health care
- anthropology of psychiatry
The Division is home to several programs related to social and cultural psychiatry:
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Contemplative Studies
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Indigenous Mental Health Research
