Dignity Meets Jaswant Guzder

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Division of Transcultural Psychiatry, McGill University

Dr. Guzder is the former Head of Child Psychiatry and Director of Childhood Disorders Day Hospital at the Jewish General Hospital, Founding Clinical Director of Cultural Consultation Services at the Jewish General Hospital, and Associate to Faculty of Social Work at McGill University.

As a psychiatrist, Dr Guzder specializes in child and family psychiatry based on multicultural methodologies. She has international collaborations with institutes in India and Jamaica working with South Asian and Caribbean populations. Her recent project is resilience promotion for high-risk children in a school affiliated intervention from age 8 to 12 at the Dream a World Cultural Resilience Project. Most recently, as an artist, Dr Guzder held artist residencies in Rome and Berlin prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dignity's Suparna Choudhury spoke with Dr. Jaswant Guzder