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Laurence J. Kirmayer, MD, FRCPC, FCAHS, FRSC is Distinguished James McGill Professor and Director of the Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, McGill University. He directs the Culture & Mental Health Research Unit at the Institute of Community and Family Psychiatry, Jewish General Hospital in Montreal, where he conducts research on culturally responsive mental health services and the philosophy of psychiatry. His publications include: Healing and the Invention of Metaphor: Toward a Poetics of Illness Experience, (Cambridge University Press, 2025); and the co-edited volumes: Healing Traditions: The Mental Health of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada (University of British Columbia Press, 2009); and Cultural Consultation: Encountering the Other in Mental Health Care (Springer, 2014). He is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and the Royal Society of Canada.

This colloquium is organized and hosted by Professor Joseph P. Gone, Faculty Director of the Harvard University Native American Program. Webinar is being hosted by the Harvard University Native American Program and the Harvard Medical School Blavatnik Institute, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine.