CIMH Staff
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Associate Professor Harry Minas Professor Harry Minas graduated in medicine and surgery, and medical science, from the University of Melbourne, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists in 1985. In 1988 he was invited to take up the position of foundation director of the VTPU. He has served as a member of the Executive of the Mental Health Council of Australia and on numerous state, national and international boards and committees, and has been a member of state and national ministerial advisory groups. He has led the development of research, teaching and service development activities in the area of transcultural mental health and in the field of international mental health development. He has been a consultant to the Commonwealth Department of Human Services, the International Organization for Migration, and the World Health Organization, and leads a WHO Collaborating Centre for Mental Health and Substance Abuse. Prof Minas was recently appointed to the WHO International Panel of Experts on Mental Health and Substance Abuse. |
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Associate Professor Steven Klimidis Professor Steven Klimidis is Associate Professor for the University of Melbourne Centre for International Mental Health and Assistant Director of the Victorian Transcultural Psychiatry Unit. A clinical psychologist and researcher, Professor Klimidis is the author of research papers, book chapters and reports in areas as diverse as psychiatric epidemiology, the phenomenology of psychoses, evaluation of health care services and transcultural mental health. Professor Klimidis has consulted extensively in mental health promotion and clinical services evaluation, service models and policy development. |
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Dr Prem Chopra Senior Lecturer, CIMH Dr Prem Chopra is a Senior Lecturer with the Centre for International Mental Health. He graduated with MB BS (The University of Melbourne) in 1993, MSc (Health Policy and Management) (University of Wollongong) in 1999 and MPsy (The University of Melbourne) in 2003. He completed his MD (The University of Melbourne) in 2008. His thesis examined the assessment of long-term outcomes and unmet needs in the field of psychiatric rehabilitation. He has been a Member of the Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators since 1999 and a Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists since 2004. He is also employed as a Consultant Psychiatrist at St Vincent’s Mental Health Service Melbourne, Bendigo Health Care Group and Latrobe Regional Hospital. His clinical interests are in community mental health and psychiatric rehabilitation. His research interests are in public mental health and models of psychiatric rehabilitation. |
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Penny Mitchell Senior Lecturer International Mental Health
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Tania Miletic Tania is currently working as a Research Fellow with the Centre for International Mental Health. Tania has experience in transcultural mental health research and education programs having previously worked with the Victorian Transcultural Psychiatry Unit. Her current work is in international mental health and the role of mental health in international development and peacebuilding. Tania received both her Bachelor of Arts degree and Postgraduate Diploma in Psychology from Melbourne University and holds a Masters in Public Administration from ICU in Tokyo. She was awarded a Rotary World Peace Fellowship, (2002 – 2004) and has worked in research in Cambodia for several years. Tania also holds a position as Sessional Lecturer in Conflict Resolution with Victoria University and is the Academic Adviser (Asia Region) to the International Masters in Applied Conflict Transformation Studies (ACTS).
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Erminia Colucci After a Diploma in Education, and a first class honours degree in Clinical Psychology at the University of Padua (Italy), Erminia (Emy) trained as a researcher at The Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention (AISRAP),Griffith University, Brisbane. In 2003 she won the Australian International post-graduate research scholarships (UQIPRS and IPRS), which supported her PhD project “The cultural meaning of suicide: A comparison between Italian, Indian and Australian students” at The University of Queensland. Her project was awarded the 2004 UQ Travel Award and the 2005 Dr Helen Row–Zonta Memorial Prize. In 2006, Erminia was a visiting scholar in the Centre for the International Mental Health (CIMH), School of Population Health, at The University of Melbourne where she currently works as a Research Fellow. At present, she is involved in suicide research in North India and Sri Lanka and tutors medical students. She has a strong interest in spirituality and suicide and indigenous suicide and has presented about the cultural aspects of suicide, spirituality and related topics internationally and has authored journal papers and other publications on these topics. Her other main research interests are on the cultural aspects of mental illness and wellbeing, traditional/alternative healing, the use of arts in research and prevention and qualitative methodology (in particular, focus groups, ethnography and narrative analysis). |
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