Dr. Mollica is a Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma (HPRT) at Massachusetts General Hospital. Keynote speakers
Prof. Richard Mollica
Dr. Mollica is a Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma (HPRT) at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Since 1981, Dr. Mollica and HPRT have pioneered the medical and mental health care of survivors of mass violence and torture in the U.S. and abroad. Under Dr. Mollica’s direction, HPRT conducts clinical, training, policy, and research activities for populations affected by mass violence around the world. Dr. Mollica is currently active in clinical work, research, and the development of a Global Mental Health curriculum, focusing on trauma and recovery. The Global Mental Health: Trauma and Recovery certificate program is the first of its kind in global mental health and post- conflict/disaster care. He has published over 160 scientific manuscripts, published his first book called Healing Invisible Wounds: Paths to Hope and Recovery in a Violent World (2006), and his most recent published book is A Manifesto: Healing a Violent World (2018).
In 2022, Dr. Mollica received the Equity, Social Justice, and Advocacy Lifetime Achievement Award from Harvard Medical School for his leadership and life-long service to provide and improve health/mental health care for vulnerable populations experiencing healthcare disparities.
Prof. Jessica Carlsson
Jessica Carlsson is Head of Research at Competence Centre for Transcultural Psychiatry (CTP) in Copenhagen, Denmark and Research Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen. She holds a PhD in treatment outcome of trauma-affected refugees.
Her primary research areas are clinical research in trauma-affected refugees and research in transcultural psychiatry. She has years of experience in designing and conducting randomised clinical trials on treatment outcomes and is one of the main contributors to the development of the Treatment and Research Integrated Model (TRIM) at CTP. She has published a large number of scientific papers and books chapters related to her areas of research and has built up rapidly growing and dynamic research group at CTP.
Oscar Guermouche
Oscar Guermouche, visual artist and writer, explores language as a bearer of identity. His work focuses on connections between body and text, using questions of biography, self-image and character as a starting point. He is particularly interested in characters as the antihero and the monster, as well as their environments and languages, and the narratives that create and recreate them. This includes issues such as coming of age, fatherhood, and gender. At the same time, as a person with a background in the MENA region, but born and raised in Sweden, race, ethnicity and nationhood, as well as home and threat, have inevitably become key components in several of his works.
Oscar Guermouche’s work has been exhibited at Göteborgs Konsthall, Magasin III Museum for Contemporary Art, and Nationalmuseum in Stockholm, as well as at the National Centre for Contemporary Art in Moscow, Kunsthalle Rostock, Lokal 30 in Warsaw, The Bomb Factory Art Foundation in London, and Sleepwalker Projects in Toronto, amongst others. He is currently a guest lecturer at Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm.