This meeting is one step toward achieving a worldwide organization of Black psychiatrists, which will allow participation with medical, governmental, and non-governmental agencies. In coming years, perhaps these deliberations will lead to new and important cross-national, cross-disciplinary projects designed to serve all people, everywhere. At the urging of global leaders who have made significant contributions to the growth of mental health care in Africa, the Africa Global Mental Health Institute (AGMHI) was born. In November 2016, David Henderson, MD of Boston University, Bonga Chiliza, MD of University of KwaZulu-Natal, Eliot Sorel, MD of George Washington University, Gregory Fricchione, MD of Harvard University, and a host of others convened at the 2nd African Diaspora Global Mental Health Conference in Cape Town, South Africa to develop a central organization to spearhead and accelerate capacity-building for mental health care in Africa and the diaspora.

The conference brought together 40 psychiatrists of African descent to analyze, discuss, and develop an agenda to address the role of psychiatry and psychiatrists in healing the mental health problems of people of African-descent in Africa and throughout the world.

Pierce, MD at the Massachusetts General Hospital. In 2002, the 1st African Diaspora Global Mental Health Conference was convened by Chester M.

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