Byron Good

Byron Good
Professor, Social Anthropology Program; joint appointment with Harvard Medical School

Research and Teaching Interests: Medical and psychiatric anthropology; cultural psychology of Middle East and of American health, Iran, Turkey and the USA.

byron_good [at] hms.harvard.edu
(617) 495-3904, William James Hall 340

Curriculum Vitae [pdf]

Education
1964 University of Nigeria
1966 B.A. Goshen College (Mathematics)
1969 B.D. Harvard Divinity School (Comparative Study of Religions)
1977 Ph.D. University of Chicago (Social Anthropology)

Primary Areas of Specialization
Medical and Psychiatric Anthropology; Anthropological Theory, with special focus on current theories of subjectivity; Cross-Cultural Psychiatry; Indonesia; Studies of Psychotic Illness in Java; Studies of Violence, Conflict, and Post-Conflict Mental Health, particularly in Aceh; Strategies to Improve Human Rights and to Resolve Conflicts; Mental Health Services for Persons Suffering Trauma; Culture and Mental Health Services in Low Income Countries, Mental Health Training Programs for China, Indonesia, and the region.

Teaching Responsibilities
- Director, Medical Student Teaching Programs, Department of Social Medicine (1998-2002)
- Co-Director, NIMH Training Program in Culture and Mental Health Services (1984-2008)
- Co-Director, Program in Medical Anthropology, Harvard University
- Co-Director, Melbourne University-Harvard Medical School International Mental Health Training Program (2000-2006)
- Director, International Mental Health Training Program (with grant from Fogarty International Center, to train fellows in China, 2000- )
- Director, Programs in Global Mental Health, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
- Regularly teach graduate seminars in anthropology: Theories of Subjectivity in Contemporary Anthropology; Culture and Mental Illness; and Anthropological Interviewing.

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