Breaking Bias Masterclass 2022: Transforming Mental Healthcare with Dr. ...

Wizdom Powell is Director of the Health Disparities Institute and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at UConn Health. She serves as the President of the American Psychological Association, Division 51 Men and Masculinities, and is an honorary professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa. Formerly, Dr. Powell was Associate Professor at Health Behavior at UNC-Chapel Hill’s Gillings School of Global Public Health and Research Associate Professor in UNC’s Department of Social Medicine. Dr. Powell also served as Associate Director of the Center for Health Equity Research, faculty member at UNC’s Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Director of the UNC’s Men’s Health Research Lab. In 2011-2012, she was appointed by President Obama to serve as a White House Fellow to Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta. 

Throughout her career, she has served as an honest broker and convener of typically silo-ed sectors and organizations within public health to ensure equitable conversations in planning and organizing for change and impact on well-being and health. Her frameworks and approaches have been adopted by other institutions across the world as well as recognized by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO).

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