Dr Maurice Eisenbruch This is Me

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1. 1. www.sphcm.med.unsw.edu.au

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   Published on: 10/12/2007   Last Visited: 11/22/2007

   Maurice Eisenbruch, who is Foundation Professor of Multicultural Health, at the Centre for Culture and Health, has received $40,494 to identify the barriers that prevent Chinese Australians from accessing mental health services and make recommendations on how these can be overcome.

2. 2. Re-Imagining Peace After Massacres

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   Published on: 10/16/2006   Last Visited: 9/18/2007

   Dr. Maurice Eisenbruch, psychiatrist and anthropologist, is Director of the Institute for Health and Diversity and Professor of Culture and Health at Victoria University (Melbourne, Australia). He was previously Director of the Centre for Culture and Health at the University of New South Wales. He graduated in Medicine from the University of Melbourne and has postgraduate qualifications in child psychiatry, medical anthropology, psychology, and education. During the 1980s, Eisenbruch worked with Southeast Asian refugees while based at the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge and at the Department of Social Medicine and Health Policy at Harvard Medical School. He developed the concept of "cultural bereavement." During the 1990s, Eisenbruch taught at the University of Paris and was Director of Studies (Associé) at the School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences in Paris. He was Head of a research operation at CNRS (National Centre for Scientific Research) examining the power of healing, and he led various projects in medical anthropology concerning mental health, maternal and child health, and HIV/AIDS in Cambodia. He was Honorary Professor of Clinical Psychology and Anthropology at the Royal Phnom Penh University, and held consultancies in Cambodia with WHO, European Union, UNESCO and UNFPA. He returned to Australia in 1999.
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   Since September 2004, she has worked as a researcher with Professor Maurice Eisenbruch's project "Traditional Healers in Cambodia".
   
   Heng Kimvan, lecturer at the Royal University of Phnom Penh, Research Consultant at the Buddhist Institute, where he is co-ordinating the "Traditional Healing in Cambodia" project (Phnom Penh, Cambodia). He holds a degree in Lao Literature and linguistics from Vientiane University, Laos. He has lectured in literature at the Royal University of Phnom Penh since 1992, and was a socio-cultural researcher with the Center for Advanced Study in Phnom Penh from 1995 to 2002. He has research experience in the fields of ethnic minorities, indigenous peoples, human rights, democracy, health and pharmacy. He has conducted several qualitative and anthropological field studies on health-seeking behaviors and health systems for the World Health Organization, Uppsala University, Sweden, and the Buddhist Institute. From 2002-2004, he was Teaching Assistant for the Master of Arts in Cultural Studies Program at the Buddhist Institute, helping to build research capacity.
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   Dr. Maurice Eisenbruch is Professor of Multicultural Health and Director of the Centre for Culture and Health at the University of New South Wales. He graduated in Medicine from the University of Melbourne and has postgraduate qualifications in child psychiatry, medical anthropology, psychology, and education. During the 1980s, Eisenbruch worked with Southeast Asian refugees while based at the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge and at the Department of Social Medicine and Health Policy at Harvard Medical School. He developed the concept of "cultural bereavement." During the 1990s, Eisenbruch taught at the University of Paris and was Director of Studies (Associé) at the School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences in Paris. He was Head of a research operation at CNRS (National Centre for Scientific Research) examining the power of healing, and he led various projects in medical anthropology concerning mental health, maternal and child health, and HIV/AIDS in Cambodia. He was Honorary Professor of Clinical Psychology and Anthropology at the Royal Phnom Penh University, and held consultancies in Cambodia with WHO, European Union, UNESCO and UNFPA. He returned to Australia in 1999.

3. 3. 17th World Congress of the International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions, Melbourne, Australia - Program

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   Published on: 11/24/2006   Last Visited: 11/24/2007

   Maurice Eisenbruch
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   Maurice Eisenbruch
   
   Maurice Eisenbruch, is Vice-Chancellor's Advisor on Diversity; foundation Director, Institute for Health and Diversity; and Professor of Culture and Health at Victoria University. Dr Eisenbruch received his medical degree in 1972 from the University of Melbourne and completed his training in child and adolescent psychiatry at University of Melbourne teaching hospitals in 1977. He has postgraduate qualifications in psychological medicine, psychology, and child psychiatry (University of Melbourne), medical anthropology (University of Cambridge), and education (Monash University). His research on depressed mothers and their children earned him a doctorate from the University of Melbourne.
   
   During the 1980s Eisenbruch at the University of Cambridge carried out research with Vietnamese refugee families, and at Harvard Medical School developed the concept of 'cultural bereavement' among refugee adolescents. He founded Australia's first cultural consultation service at the Royal Children's Hospital.
   
   During the 1990s he taught medical anthropology at the University of Paris, was Associate Director of Studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and led a Research Operation at the National Centre for Scientific Research.
   
   After repatriating to Australia he became foundation Professor of Multicultural Health and Director of the Centre for Culture and Health at the University of New South Wales. His research includes the use of cultural capital in parenting and early interventions and the role of sustained home visiting for Multicultural Families First. In 2005 he moved to Melbourne.
   
   He serves on WHO-EU Task Force on Migrant Friendly Hospitals and Cultural Competence. He has been consultant to UNESCO, WHO, UNFPA, and the EU as an expert on cultural competence and cultural diversity. He has served on executive committees of World Psychiatric Association and World Federation for Mental Health and on boards of international journals such as Social Science & Medicine.
   
   Dr Eisenbruch speaks more than half a dozen languages and thrives on working directly with culturally diverse communities.