“Interrogating the WHO’s finding of a more benign schizophrenia in poor countries: Lessons from Zanzibar” ♦

Dr. McGruder is an occupational therapist and medical anthropologist at the University of Puget Sound, who has worked on the island of Zanzibar for over 20 years. Her work combines practical experience in mental health therapeutic programs with an academic interest in cross-cultural concepts of health and disease. In this talk, she will contextualize the WHOʼs finding that individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia have a better chance of recovery in poor countries than rich ones through a discussion of her ethnographic work in Zanzibar.