This webinar series will explore how faith-based community leadership can build mental health capacity in the midst of COVID-19. It addresses the need to assist these leaders in (1) improving their general knowledge base around mental and emotional disorders and (2) removing the stigma regarding mental health issues. By incorporating a cross collaboration between faith leaders and psychiatric practitioners, the three-part series will help improve the overall well-being of African-American communities during and beyond the current pandemic.
Altha Stewart, M.D. is Senior Associate Dean of Community Health Engagement for the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis. As an Associate Professor and Chief of Social and Community Psychiatry, she also serves as the Director of the Center for Health in Justice Involved Youth and the medical school. In 2018 she was elected President of the American Psychiatric Association, becoming the first African American to hold this office. Her career spans over three decades of work as the CEO/Executive Director of large public mental health systems in Michigan, Pennsylvania and New York. She received her medical degree from Temple University and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws Degree from Regis College in 2006 and Doctor of Science from her alma mater, Christian Brothers University in Memphis, TN in 2018. Dr. Stewart is a past president of the Black Psychiatrists of America, the Association of Women Psychiatrists and the American Psychiatric Association Foundation.
Annelle Primm, M.D., MPH is the Senior Medical Director of the Steve Fund, an organization focused on the mental health of young people of color including college students. She is also the Convener of the All Healers Mental Health Alliance and mobilizes organizational collaboration to provide healing services for disaster-affected marginalized communities. Dr. Primm is a former Deputy Medical Director of the American Psychiatric Association (2004-20015). She received her undergraduate degree from Harvard University, her medical degree from Howard University and psychiatric training as well as training in public health from Johns Hopkins University. She is a published author and serves as an adjunct Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University, New York University and Howard University Schools of Medicine. Dr. Primm is a member of the Black Psychiatrists of America Council of Elders.
Faith-based leaders, congregants and mental health clinicians.
Guiding the Shepherd and Shepherding the Flock in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic – Webinar series
