Global Mental Health Speaker Series - Cultural Mental Health - Conversation
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• Dr Edwina Uehara, UW
• Dr Priscilla Lui

April features a conversation between two experts in cultural mental health, the conversation emerges from their curiosity about each other's work. Members of the audience will have the opportunity to participate and ask questions at the end of the conversation.  

• Edwina Uehara, MSW, PhD - Professor & Emerita Ballmer Endowed Dean, Social Work - Dr. Uehara’s research interests lie in the social and cultural constructs around health care, mental health and the ways that Asian Americans and African Americans access services. Her research has been supported by grants from the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Research Center on Asian American Mental Health, among others. She has served as president of the Society for Social Work & Research and of the St. Louis Group for Excellence in Social Work Research and Education.
• Priscilla Lui, PhD - Assistant Professor, Psychology - Dr. Lui's research concerns how people from diverse sociocultural backgrounds make sense of the world, and how their lived experiences associated with culture, ethnicity, and race affect their psychopathology and addictive behaviors. Using a social ecological framework, Lui studies intercultural contact, close relationships, and intrapersonal characteristics as determinants of psychopathology, including alcohol and drug use. Lui is interested in measurement development and psychometrics, and metascience (i.e., research about the research process).