Echoes Across Cultures: Gender, Emotion and Mental Health in Brazil, Barbados & Japan - A Global Mental Health Seminar

The next instalment of our Global Mental Health Seminar - Global Mental Health (GMH) is a topic that is concerned with addressing inequities in mental health provision across the globe. GMH argues for providing universal access to mental health care through the ‘scaling up’ of services and expertise in low and middle-income countries (LMICs).

This is a free event, open to all, and will be held via MsTeams. This event will not be recorded.

This seminar will be split into 3 segments, featuring talks from Luiza Lins, Igor De Almeida & Natalie Greaves.

The first seminar will focus on Gender Inequality and Sexism in Brazil: Social Dynamics and Mental Health Implications, hosted by Luiza Lins. 

Luiza Lins is a researcher at the Communication and Society Research Centre (CECS), Institute of Social Sciences, University of Minho, Portugal. She was a postdoctoral fellow at CECS from 2022 to 2025 and is currently a collaborating researcher on the European project CONCILIARE – Confidently Changing Colonial Heritage (Horizon Europe, 2024–2027). She holds a PhD in Social Psychology from the Federal University of Paraíba (2022, UFPB), Brazil, and completed a doctoral internship at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), Spain. She also holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Psychology from the Federal University of Sergipe (UFS), Brazil. Her research focuses on gender, intergroup relations, sexism, discrimination, social representations, migration, intersectionality, and social identities. She has authored academic papers, book chapters, and research reports produced through interdisciplinary and collaborative projects involving research teams from different institutions and international contexts.

The second seminar will focus on culturally Specific Emotions - A Glimpse Into Japan and Portuguese-Speaking Cultures, hosted by Igor de Almeida.

Igor de Almeida is a cultural and social psychologist. He graduated from the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil in 2010, he got a master’s degree in 2016 and a doctoral degree in 2019 from Kyoto University in Japan. He currently works as a senior lecturer at Kyoto University. His research is about how culture influence people’s thoughts, behaviour and emotions.

The third seminar will focus on Conversations in Palliative Care: Brining light into the Cave, hosted by Natalie Greaves.

Dr Natalie Greaves is a Tenured Lecturer in Public Health and Coordinator of the MPhil/PhD Programme in Public Health and Epidemiology at the University of the West Indies (Cave Hill Campus, Barbados). She teaches palliative care and research methods at postgraduate level. She has played a leading role in advancing palliative care services and education in the Caribbean, contributing to national initiatives in Barbados, including the National Cancer Control Plan and chronic pain management strategies. She was a founding director of the Barbados Palliative Care Association and has advised multiple Ministry of Health projects. Dr Greaves has developed innovative educational programmes, including UWI Cave Hill’s first graduate course and a regional online course in palliative care. In 2016, she received a Commitment to Excellence Award for her contributions to the field. She currently serves on the board of the International Association of Hospice and Palliative Care. Her research focuses on applied public health, cancer prevention and control, palliative care, and healthcare access, primarily using qualitative methods.

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