Telemental Health in Resource-Limited Global Settings

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Telemental Health in Resource-Limited Global Settings is a collaborative edited book that aims to introduce the reader to experiences of using the technology in providing mental health care, education and Capacity building approaches in resource limited settings around the globe. The book includes experiences from Africa, India, the Middle East, and resource-limited communities in Australia and the USA. This book will enrich the reader's understanding of the state of TMH globally, and challenges facing this application.

Hussam Jefee-Bahloul, MD is currently an assistant professor at UMass school of Medicine and lecturer at Yale School of Medicine department of psychiatry. Dr. Jefee-Bahloul had graduated medical school from Tishreen University, Syria in 2006 and moved to the U.S in 2009 to start adult psychiatry residency training in the University of Texas Southwestern in Dallas. He moved to Yale School of Medicine for training in Psychosomatic Medicine, and then Addiction psychiatry. Currently Dr. Jefee-Bahloul serves as a medical director to Addiction consultation services at UMass. Dr. Jefee-Bahloul's academic interests are: Global mental health, refugee mental health, trauma and addiction, cross-cultural psychiatry and the implementation of telemental health in conflict and disaster settings. Dr. Jefee-Bahloul conducts research in the U.S and the Middle East. Dr. Andres Barkil-Oteo is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine, and currently a psychiatrist consultant with Doctors Without Borders (MSF). Previously at Yale he was the Medical Director of Acute Care Services at Connecticut Mental Health Center in New Haven CT where he was involved in coordination and provision of mental health services to a large Iraqi refugee population, and undocumented immigrants in New Haven. Dr. Barkil-Oteo's work focuses on using technology to increase capacity of non-specialists to deliver effective and high-quality mental health care in low-income settings. He is the co-founder of the Syrian Tele-mental Health Network. His writings have appeared in Lancet, Lancet Psychiatry, JAMA psychiatry, and his work has been featured on ABC News and Huffington post. Eugene F. Augusterfer, LCSW, is Director of Telemedicine for the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma (HPRT) and a core faculty member of HPRT's Global Mental Health: Trauma and Recovery Program. He helped develop HPRT's innovative model that addresses the need for sustainable care in post-disaster areas through the use of telemedicine, including mobile technology. Augusterfer is also involved in the broader field of telemedicine as Chair Emeritus of the American Telemedicine Association Mental Health Group, where he has been instrumental in the design and implementation of telemedicine programs for a number of organizations, including government agencies and private industry. He maintains a clinical psychotherapy practice and is a founding member of Georgetown University Medical Schools McLean Psychiatric Study Group, the World Bank Global Mental Health and Psychosocial Working Group (founding member and co-leader), and the World Economic Forum Wellness Initiative in Geneva.