Joop De Jong MD, PhD

Joop de Jong, MD, PhD, is Emeritus Professor of Cultural and International Psychiatry at VU University, and Emeritus Visiting Professor of Psychology at Rhodes University, South Africa. He is Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine, and senior researcher at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR). He was the founder and director of the Transcultural Psychosocial Organization (TPO), which provided mental health and psychosocial services in more than 20 countries in Africa, Asia, and Europe.

Until today programs of TPO often operate in armed conflict areas and complex humanitarian emergencies. Joop de Jong worked part-time with immigrants and refugees in the Netherlands. Over the past decades he was involved in global mental health by integrating insights from public mental health, psychotherapy, psychiatry, anthropology and epidemiology in community interventions in a variety of cultures, on which he (co)authored and (co)edited 300 papers, chapters and books.