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Bridging Cultural Psychiatry and Global Mental Health: A Resident-Led Initiative

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Acknowledgments

Lucy Barker, Devina Wadhwa, and Kaila Rudolph are the other invaluable members of the initial organizing team, without whom this initiative would not be possible. We would also like to thank Drs. Lisa Andermann and Kenneth Fung for their ongoing support of the interest group and their assistance with proofreading and preparation of the manuscript. We thank Drs. Michaela Beder, Alpna Munshi, and Priya Raju, who were members of the original Transcultural Psychiatry Reading Group and who provided assistance to us as we developed this iteration of it.

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  1. University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

    June S. H. Lam, Amy Gajaria, David M. Matthews & Juveria Zaheer

  2. Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Juveria Zaheer

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The interest group described in this manuscript receives financial support for food, non-alcoholic beverages, and small thank-you gifts for speakers and hosts provided by the University of Toronto’s Department of Psychiatry Pillar 4 (http://www.psychiatry.utoronto.ca/about/strategic-plan/pillar-4/), an arm of the department’s strategic development plan focused on equity and social justice, and global mental health (http://www.psychiatry.utoronto.ca/programs-initiatives/global-mental-health/) divisions.

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Lam, J.S.H., Gajaria, A., Matthews, D.M. et al. Bridging Cultural Psychiatry and Global Mental Health: A Resident-Led Initiative. Acad Psychiatry 40, 729–730 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40596-016-0576-1

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