INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD
The
International Advisory Board is a group of prestigious academics and
practitioners in the field. The Board connects Psychology
Beyond Borders to other efforts being made to study and address issues of psychological
impact of mass disaster around the world.
DR. PATRICK BOYER,
Q.C.
CANADA
Author, lawyer, university professor,
journalist, former Member of Parliament, and public policy
worker.
DR. CHRIS BREWIN
UNITED KINGDOM
Professor
of clinical psychology, University College London and PTSD specialist
in clinical services provided by the Traumatic Stress Clinic.
DR. DANNY BROM
ISRAEL
Director
of the Israel Center for the Treatment of Psychotrauma and former
founder and Director of the Dutch Psychotrauma Institute.
DR. RICHARD BRYANT
AUSTRALIA
Professor
of Psychology, University of New South Wales & Director of the
PTSD Unit, Westmead Hospital, Sydney.
AMON BURTON
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Adjunct
Professor of Law, the University of Texas at Austin; has practiced law
for over thirty years in the fields of corporate, securities,
and business law.
DIANA DANIELS
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Chair
of Cornell University's Presidential Search Committee, vice chair of
the Cornell Board of Trustee, and Vice president, general counsel
and secretary of the Washington Post Company.
DR. ATLE DYREGROV
NORWAY
Director
of the Center for Crisis Psychology in Bergen, Norway and member of the
European Congress of Psychology Standing Committee on Crisis,
Disaster and Trauma.
AMANDA GORDON
AUSTRALIA
President, Australian Psychological Society.
DR. ROB GORDON
AUSTRALIA
Clinical
Director of the Critical Incident Stress Management Service, Department
of Human Services, Victoria, and psychological consultant
to the International Department of the Australian Red Cross.
DR. HRACH GREGORIAN
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
President, Institute of World Affairs.
GILL HICKS
AUSTRALIA
Survivor of the July 7 2005 London bombings.
DR. ELIZABETH LIRA
CHILE
Psychologist
and researcher at the Center for Ethics, Universidad Alberto Hurtado in
Santiago.
DR. RANDALL MARSHALL
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Director,
Trauma Studies, Associate Director, Anxiety Disorders Clinic, New York
State Psychiatric Institute (NYSPI) Associate Professor, Clinical
Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.
NJEERI WA NGUGI
KENYA
Survivor
of terror, Advocate for healing, Director, Faculty and Staff
Counselling Center, University of California, Irvine.
PROF. JAMES PENNEBAKER
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Professor
of Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin and Chair of the
Psychology Department at the University of Texas.
DR. BEVERLY RAPHAEL
AUSTRALIA
Professor of Mental
Health at the University of Western Sydney.
DR. DAVID RATNAVALE
SRI LANKA
Formerly
with the Human Disaster Management Council of the President's Office of
Sri Lanka, currently in private practice.
DR. LYNETTE RENTOUL
UNITED KINGDOM
North London National Health Psychological Services.
MU
SOCHUA
CAMBODIA
Former
Minister for Women's and Veteran's Affairs in the Government of
Cambodia, Social Worker at the front-lines of dealing with victims of
trauma from Cambodia's Pol Pot
regime.
DR. AMINA
TAREEN
UNITED
KINGDOM / PAKISTAN
Child
and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health
Trust.
DR. ABDEL AZIZ THABET
PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES
Senior
Researcher and Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist - Gaza
Community Mental Health Programme.
DR. BARBARA WHITE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Dean
of the School of Social Work at The University of Texas, Professor of
Social Work; and former President of the 155,000-member National
Association of Social Workers (NASW).
DR. BILL YULE
UNITED KINGDOM
Director
of the Child Traumatic Stress Clinic, Chair of the British
Psychological Society's Sub Committee on Trauma and the European
Federation of Psychology Associations' Standing Committee on Crisis,
Disaster and Trauma.
DR. IYAD ZAQOUT
PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES
Project
Manager, Psychosocial Programme, United Nations Relief and Works Agency
for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).