Duncan Pedersen Award 2019: Congratulations, Maya Fennig!
Maya Fennig, is an Israeli social worker and human rights activist, Maya Fennig is dedicated to researching and designing innovative, culturally responsive interventions that advance the well-being of refugees and marginalized people. Maya is currently pursuing a PhD at McGill University鈥檚 School of Social Work under the supervision of Dr. Myriam Denov. Maya鈥檚 doctoral research examines the effects of social and cultural factors on Eritrean refugees鈥� mental health with the goal of developing a novel, culturally sensitive adaptation framework for working with Eritrean refugees. This framework is effectively a set of guidelines which will assist researchers and practitioners in creating adapted mental health interventions that reflect Eritrean refugees鈥� unique needs and world-views.
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GMH Travel Award 2019: Congratulations, Marie-H茅l猫ne Doucet!
Marie-H茅l猫ne Doucet is a year PhD student in the Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry at McGill University. She holds a Master's in Public Health from Universit茅 de Montr茅al, and a Bachelor degree in Nursing Sciences from Universit茅 Laval. She has done an internship at the WHO Department of Reproductive Health and Research on the topic of her PhD thesis: female genital mutilation. Her research interests encompass the sociocultural determinants of health behaviors, breastfeeding, women鈥檚 and girls鈥� physical and mental health, gender and racial inequities, global public health, and qualitative research. Marie-H茅l猫ne has 10 years of experience working in public health, more precisely for the implementation of the Baby-Friendly Initiative program (WHO/UNICEF) in the Montreal health-care system. Her clinical practice also includes working in mother and child health with a multicultural clientele.
Funding & Awards 2017-2018: (1) Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council : Joseph-Armand Bombardier, (2) Fonds de recherche Qu茅bec 鈥� Sant茅 : Doctoral Training for Applicants with a Professional Degree, (3) Travel awards: McGill Global Health Program: Norman Bethune Award for Global Health; McGill Graduate Mobility Award 2017-2018; SSHRC Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement, (4) McGill MedStar Award 2017 in recognition of the excellent research for 鈥淯nderstanding the motivations of healthcare providers in performing female genital mutilation: an integrative review of the literature鈥� (published March 2017).
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