Mitchell Weiss (Swiss Tropical Institute)

updated: Thu, 8 Jun 95 16:41:18 PDT

Mitchell Weiss
Department of Public Health
 and Epidemiology
Swiss Tropical Institute
Socinstrasse 57,
CH-4002 Basel
SWITZERLAND

phone: +41-61-284-82-83
       +41-61-284-82-90 (Direct)
Fax:   +41-61-271-79-51
email: mweiss@camtwh.eric.on.ca

Description of work:

REGIONAL INTEREST:  India

SUBJECT INTERESTS:
      International Health
      Cross-Cultural Psychiatry and Medicine
      Integrating anthropological and epidemiological research
            perspectives
      Integrating qualitative and quantitative research methods
      Illness behaviour, cognitive meanings, and the emotional burden
            of tropical medical diseases (e.g., leprosy,
            onchocerciasis, filariasis, childhood diarrhea, epilepsy)
      Culture, history, and Development of medical traditions in
            South Asia, especially Ayurveda
      History of Psychiatry in India
      History and current studies of suicide, deliberate self-harm,
            depression, and psychiatric disorders
      Migration, cultural displacement, adaptation, and coping

TRAINING AND BACKGROUND:
            Sanskrit studies and classical traditions of India (Ph.D.,
            South Asia Studies, University of Pennsylvania)
      Medicine and Psychiatry (M.D., University of Pennsylvania and
            Postgraduate training, Harvard)
      Medical Anthropology (Harvard)

CURRENT POSITION:
      Senior Scientist, Swiss Tropical Institute, developing
            collaborative research and training programmes in India;
            Developing social science component of training
            programmes at the Swiss Tropical Institute and
            international health programmes at the University of
            Basel
      Lecturer, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School