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October 2006, Vol 96, No. 10 | American Journal of Public Health 1725-1726
© 2006 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2006.096693

EDITORIAL

The Poussaint-Satcher-Cosby Chair in Mental Health: Creating Activists on Behalf of Our Communities, Our Youths, and Ourselves

Alvin F. Poussaint, MD

The author is with the Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, and the Judge Baker Children’s Center, Boston, Mass.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Alvin F. Poussaint, MD, Judge Baker Children’s Center, 53 Parker Hill Ave, Boston MA 02120 (e-mail: apoussaint@jbcc.harvard.edu).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.


   INTRODUCTION
 
I’m very proud and deeply honored to be part of an extraordinary historical event: the establishment, through the generosity of Camille and Bill Cosby, of the Poussaint-Satcher-Cosby Chair in Mental Health at Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, Ga. I’m delighted that the first incumbent of this chair will be David Satcher, who has contributed his enormous wisdom and leadership to move mental health to the forefront of public health initiatives in America, with a view to eliminate inequities and disparities for ethnic minorities in the mental health system. Mental Health, Culture, Race, and Ethnicity was the title of a ground-breaking . . . [Full Text]


   THE MIND–BODY CONNECTION
 

   BLACK OPPRESSION OVER CENTURIES
 

   A STATE OF EMERGENCY
 

   PROMOTING GOOD PARENTING AND RESPECTFUL CARE
 

   BREAKING DOWN THE WALL OF SILENCE
 

   CREATING DOERS AND ACTIVISTS
 





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