Nev Jones | Madness, Meaning, and the Politics of Mental Health

Please join us for the talk entitled Madness, Meaning, and the Politics of Mental Health.

Nev Jones is an Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Social Work. She is a community-engaged mental health services researcher, with an interdisciplinary academic background in social and political philosophy, community psychology. and medical anthropology (postdoc). Her expertise includes the social and cultural determinants of pathways to and through care, early intervention in psychosis, multi-stakeholder perspectives on mental health services, and the relationship between poverty, education/employment and longer-term outcomes. She brings a strong disability justice and lived experience advocacy orientation to her work.

The Medical Humanities Research Workshop is sponsored by the Stanford Humanities Center. The series is made possible by support from Linda Randall Meier, the Mellon Foundation, & the National Endowment for the Humanities. Please register in advance to receive a link to this hybrid event. Please email Bilal Nadeem (bnadeem@stanford.edu) with any questions.