Pamela Collins
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Society for Emotional Well-being Worldwide (SEWW)
North America
Pamela Collins 1997 fellow
Bold Idea
Build a global community that helps to reduce human resource inequities in mental health by supporting and promoting the professional development of the mental health workforce worldwide.
Organization
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 U.S. and South Africa as well as mental health training of primary care doctors in Argentina. 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. 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 College of Physicians and Surgeons, Department of Psychiatry and the Mailman School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology. She completed her medical training at Cornell University Medical College and subsequently trained in psychiatry at Columbia University/New York State Psychiatric Institute. Pamela completed graduate work in public health and a NIMH post-doctoral fellowship at Columbia University. She also studied cultural psychiatry and applied medical anthropology as a research fellow in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Pamela's work focuses on mental health and psychosocial aspects of the AIDS epidemic in the United States, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America. In the United States, her studies have addressed the HIV prevention needs of women with severe mental illness. Dr. Collins and colleagues also developed the HIV prevention curriculum, Our Selves, Our Bodies, Our Realities.
