Culture and Mental Health Research Unit (Jewish General Hospital)

The Culture and Mental Health Research Unit of the Lady Davis Institute and the Department of Psychiatry, Jewish General Hospital, conducts research on the role of culture in mental health. This includes research on culturally safe and competent health services, social determinants of health, and culturally grounded mental health promotion with Indigenous peoples, immigrants and refugees, and ethnocultural communities. CMHRU researchers have expertise in cultural psychiatry and psychology, qualitative health research, implementation science, global mental health, and the anthropology and philosophy of medicine.