Dr Ross G. White is Reader in Clinical Psychology at the Institute of Psychology, Health and Society, University of Liverpool, UK. He has conducted research evaluating the acceptability and efficacy of psychological interventions for psychosis. He was the founding Director of the MSc Global Mental Health programme at the University of Glasgow. He is involved in active research collaborations in ... Read moreUganda, Rwanda and Sierra Leone that aim to develop community-based forms of support for ameliorating distress. Dr Sumeet Jain is Lecturer in social work at the University of Edinburgh, UK. His work unpacks the notion of a 'global' mental health and attempts to inform development of services that account for local experiences and understandings of psychological distress. He is particularly interested in community engagement, the development of locally relevant psycho-social interventions and the relationship between poverty, marginality and mental health, in low-income countries. Dr David M.R. Orr is a senior lecturer in social work at the University of Sussex, UK. His particular research interests lie in mental health, education in health and social care, and culturally sensitive care / transcultural psychiatry. His doctoral research focused on the experiences of people suffering from mental illness among the Quechua-speaking peasant communities of Peru. He has also worked in the past on Community Mental Health Teams in the fields of Learning Disability and Older Adult Mental Health, and as Research Fellow in Social Work & Social Care. Ursula Read has a PhD in anthropology from University College London. She has worked in UK mental health services as an occupational therapist and since 2005 has conducted research with people living with severe mental illness in Ghana. She is currently a research fellow at the Centre de Recherche Medecine, Sciences, Sante, Sante Mentale et Societe (CERMES3) in Paris, France and an honorary research fellow at Kings College London. Her research explores global innovations in approaches to mental health care, including efforts to promote human rights, and how these are experienced by people with mental illness, care-givers, and health workers. Show Less