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World Mental Health Day Event: Mental Health, a Universal Human Right

Date: 

Tuesday, October 10, 2023, 4:30pm to 8:30pm

Location: 

Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, 45 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA

Please join the University community to celebrate the UN and WHO's annual World Mental Health Day.

The program will feature book talk sessions on two newly published works by Harvard Faculty, Seeing Others and Project Unlonely; a spoken word performance by a Harvard Student; and a screening of a film, The Listener, followed by a panel discussion with the film's director, Steve Buscemi, and the new faculty chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Dr Vikram Patel, moderated by Barbara Van Dahlen, Co-founder and CEO of the WeBe Life Foundation.

Free copies of Seeing Others and Project Unlonely will be available for the first 50 attendees. One book per attendee.

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BOOK TALKS

  • Michèle Lamont
    Professor of Sociology, Harvard University
  • Jeremy Nobel
    HMS faculty; founder, Foundation for Ary and Healing

PANEL DISCUSSION

  • Dr. Vikram Patel
    Chair, Dept. of Global Health and Social Medicine, HMS
  • Steve Buscemi
    Actor; director, The Listener
  • Barbara Van Dahlen
    Co-founder and CEO, WeBeLife Foundation

This event is hosted by The Provost's Office, Harvard Global Health Institute, and the GlobalMentalHealth@MentalHealthForAllLab initiative.

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