Mitchell G. Weiss
- Phone: +41 61 284 82 90
- Fax: +41 61 284 81 05
- Email: Mitchell-G.Weissanti spam bot@unibas.ch
- Profession: Medical Anthrapologist, Psychiatrist and South Asia Specialist
- Position: Titular professor, research group leader and former head of department
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Professional activities at Swiss TPH
- Guiding development of cultural epidemiology research and training for health social sciences, and developing research and training partnerships in India and Africa
Past professional activities
- Developing projects, teaching and training, and support in health social sciences
- Developing and supporting Indo-Swiss partnerships for research and training at the Swiss TPH, Basel
- Heading a research group in cultural epidemiology, developing mixed methods for interdisciplinary and integrated quantitative and qualitative research in mental health, infectious and chronic non-communicable disease studies in low- and middle-income countries.
- Research on cross-cutting health-related interests in stigma, gender and help-seeking behaviour for infectious and chronic diseases.
- Studying population priorities for public health interventions (e.g., treatment adherence and vaccine acceptance)
- Cultural studies of suicide and community mental health, and contributing to field trials for cultural psychiatry and classification of mental disorders.
Higher education & qualifications
- Medical training at the University of Pennsylvania (MD, 1981), with residency training in psychiatry at the Cambridge Hospital, Harvard Medical School (1982-1985), and fellowship training in medical anthropology and public health (1987-1992)
- PhD (1977) in South Asia Regional Studies, University of Pennsylvania
