Rural and Remote Psychiatry: How Canadian and Rwandan Psychiatry may have Global Reach and Relevance
Join us for a lecture of the Dalhousie Global Mental Health Guest Lecture Series presented by Dr. Jack Haggarty, staff psychiatrist at St. Joseph’s Care Group, consulting psychiatrist of Shared Mental Health Services Fort William Clinic, Fort Frances Tribal Health, and Nodin Mental Health (Sioux Lookout First Nation Health Authority), professor and former chair of Psychiatry (NOSM University), a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada, and a Certified Physician Executive.
Event details
Friday, Nov. 28, 2025
3 to 4:30 p.m. Atlantic Time
Location
Virtually on Zoom
(Note: Those registered will be sent the Zoom link closer to the event date)
REGISTER HERE by 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025.
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Rural and Remote Psychiatry: How Canadian and Rwandan Psychiatry may have Global Reach and Relevance
Dr. Jack Haggarty will share his experience over the past 28 years working in rural remote regions of Northwestern Ontario, as well as over a decade with Partners in Health (www.PIH.org; PIHcanada.org). He will describe service models in Haiti and Rwanda and the development of Rwanda's newest medical school, the University of Global Health Equity (UGHE). He hopes to share principles and values for health educators and clinical service planners from these low-income settings that he believes we in Canada can be enriched. Our most rural and remote areas in Canada have surprising similarities and challenges as that of many low-income parts of the world. Comparisons between the NOSM University and UGHE in Rwanda will be explored.
Learning objectives:
- Outline past traditional rural psychiatric care, and its evolved models over the past several decades.
- How might lessons from African countries such as Rwanda guide Canada to improve services models for our most northern and Indigenous communities?
- Describe how rural Rwanda models of education (the University of Global Health Equity, UGHE) have synergy with that of the NOSM University.
About the speaker
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John (Jack) Haggarty M.D. is a psychiatrist in Thunder Bay, Ontario. A graduate of McMaster Medical School, he completed his residency at the University of Ottawa (Family Medicine), and the University of Western Ontario (Psychiatry). He is a staff psychiatrist at St. Joseph’s Care Group, Consulting Psychiatrist of Shared Mental Health Services Fort William Clinic, Fort Frances Tribal Health, and Nodin Mental Health (Sioux Lookout First Nation Health Authority). He is Professor and former Chair of Psychiatry (NOSM University, 2016-2025). He has presented internationally on collaborative mental health, health outcomes, as well as publishing scientific papers on trans-cultural epidemiological research of Canada’s Indigenous people. He is actively engaged with delivering mental health to hard-to-serve homeless, Indigenous communities and faculty and Senior Advisor with the University of Global Health Equity in Rwanda. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada, and a Certified Physician Executive. |
Accreditation
This presentation is part of the Dalhousie Global Mental Health Guest Lecture Series
The Dalhousie Global Mental Health Guest Lecture Series is a self-approved group learning activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.