Pamela Collins

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1997

Pamela Collins

Society for Emotional Well-being Worldwide (SEWW)

http://www.seww.org

New York, New York, United States

Health

The Bold Idea:

The Society for Emotional Well-being Worldwide (SEWW) initially existed as a group of three projects focused on HIV prevention in psychiatric settings in the US and South Africa as well as mental health training of primary care doctors in Argentina. The organization was incorporated in December 2006 and a Web site was also launched in 2006.  The current mission is to build a global community that seeks to reduce human resource inequities in mental health by supporting and promoting the professional development of the mental health workforce around the globe.  In so doing SEWW aims to promote the mental health and well-being of individuals and communities. SEWW seeks to connect innovators in community mobilization, advocacy, program design, research, and clinical service provision, who are committed to assisting in the development and dissemination of creative solutions to mental health problems worldwide.

Biography:

Dr. Pamela Collins is an assistant professor at Columbia University in the departments of epidemiology and psychiatry. She completed her medical training at Cornell University Medical College and trained in psychiatry at Columbia University/New York State Psychiatric Institute. Dr. Collins completed graduate work in public health and a post-doctoral fellowship at Columbia. She studied cultural psychiatry as a research fellow in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. 

Dr. Collins’s work focuses on mental health aspects of the AIDS epidemic in the US and Sub-Saharan Africa.  She has led the development and evaluation of HIV prevention curricula in the US and South Africa and has trained medical staff in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa on mental health, HIV prevention, and counseling. She is currently a member of the scientific advisory group for the mental health component of the Millennium Villages Project.  She directs the interdepartmental Global Health Track at the Mailman School of Public Health.    Dr. Collins received an Echoing Green Fellowship in 1997. She is the founder and director of the Society for Emotional Well-being Worldwide, an organization dedicated to building a network of global mental health workers and providing resources to providers and community-based organizations in low-income countries.