Sita Patel, PhD
Date: Monday, November 14th, 2016
Time: 3:30 p.m. – 5:00pm.
Location: Harris Hydraulics:
Large Conference Room (Room 322)
Dr. Sita G. Patel is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at Palo Alto University (PAU). Her research focuses on risk and resiliency, culture and context as they relate to global trauma and immigrant mental health. She uses mixed methods, ecological theory, and community partnership to study trauma, psychosocial adjustment, and barriers to accessing treatment for mental illness among individuals living in low resource and instable contexts.
Her current international projects include a USAID-funded intervention study of trauma healing and peace education in the Central African Republic, and a collaboration with the Africa Mental Health Foundation to examine challenges among traditional healers in Kenya. Her domestic projects include a longitudinal school-based study of risk and resiliency among newcomer adolescent immigrants, and a community partnership to evaluate services for refugee survivors of torture. At PAU, Dr. Patel is the faculty advisor for the Cultural Transitions Research Group and Students for Global Mental Health. In 2016, she was a visiting scholar at the Africa Mental Health Foundation in Nairobi, Kenya, and at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa.
Dr. Patel completed an undergraduate degree at Vassar College; a doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley; a pre-doctoral internship at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons (St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital); and postdoctoral training at the University of California, San Francisco (Community Academic Research Training Alliance). Prior to joining the Palo Alto University faculty, Dr. Patel taught courses at New York University, University of San Francisco, and U.C. Berkeley.
For more information contact: Eaden Andu at andue@uw.edu, (206) 779-3301
