Mental Health in Asia and the Pacific / International and Cultural Psychology (PDF)

Company, 2001); Minas IH, Lambert T, Kostov S, Boranga G, Mental health services for immigrants: Transforming policy into practice. Canberra, Australian Government Publishing Service, 1996. Between 1988 and 2015 he was founding Director of the Victorian Transcultural Psychiatry Unit during which time he established, in 1996, the Centre for International Mental Health at the University of Melbourne. He has been a consultant to Australian Commonwealth and State Departments of Health, successive Australian Ministers for Immigration and Citizenship, the International Organization for Migration, and the World Health Organization. He was Co-Chair of the Victorian Migration Mental Health Taskforce and Chair of the Executive of the Commonwealth-funded Mental Health in Multicultural Australia program. He is Co-Director of a WHO Collaborating Centre for Mental Health and Substance Abuse and is a member of the WHO Director-General's International Expert Panel on Mental Health. He was founding Editor of Australasian Psychiatry: Journal of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (1993-2000) and, since 2007, has been founding Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Mental Health Systems. Between 2011and 2013 he was head of the Movement for Global Mental Health Secretariat and was a member of the Lancet Global Mental Health Group that prepared the Lancet Series on global mental health in 2007 and 2011.



Milton Lewis

Milton Lewis is an historian of medicine, public health and health policy; and is currently an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Menzies Centre for Health Policy, the Charles Perkins Centre, the University of Sydney.

As the book titles below show he has written on a very wide range of aspects of medicine and public health; across the lifecycle from infants to the dying and across a variety of medical specialties and health problems.

He has a long term interest in the contribution history can make to understanding better health problems and health policy; and, more broadly, in how to apply what used to be called, especially in 19th century Germany, the "human sciences" (history, anthropology, economics, politics, sociology and psychology) together with human biology, in an integrated way, to advance understanding of human affairs; a very much more difficult task but one essential to dealing with the growing complexity of a world where globalisation and the forces of economic "modernisation" interact with ancient cultures and "pre-modern" societies.

He has published 15 books (as well as book chapters, special issues of journals and journal articles). The three most recent books, including this book, Mental Health in Asia and the Pacific: Historical and Cultural Perspectives, reflect his concern with the impact of globalisation on the health of the peoples of the diverse polities, economies, societies and cultures of Asia and the Pacific; a region many see as the emerging centre of world affairs. The first two books - MJ Lewis and KL MacPherson, eds, Public Health in Asia and the Pacific: Historical and Comparative Perspectives (2008; 2011) and MJ Lewis and KL MacPherson, eds, Health Transitions and the Double Disease Burden in Asia and the Pacific: Histories of Responses to Noncommunicable and Communicable Diseases (2013) - cover communicable and noncommunicable diseases. This third book, in dealing with mental disorders, completes the coverage of the "total disease burden" of countries of the region.

Some of his other books are:

MJ Lewis, Managing Madness: Psychiatry and Society in Australia, 1788-1980 (1988);

RM MacLeod and MJ Lewis, eds, Disease, Medicine and Empire: Perspectives on Western Medicine and the Experience of European Expansion (1988); MJ Lewis, A Rum State: Alcohol and State Policy in Australia, 1788-1988 (1992);



MJ Lewis, S Bamber and M Waugh, eds, Sex, Disease and Society: A Comparative History of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (1997);

P Setel, M Lewis and M Lyons, eds, Histories of Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa (1999);

MJ Lewis, Thorns on the Rose: the History of Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Australia in International Perspective (1998);

MJ Lewis, The People's Health, Vol 1, Public Health in Australia, 1788-1950 (2003);

MJ Lewis, The People's Health, Vol 2, Public Health in Australia, 1950 to the Present (2003);

MJ Lewis, Medicine and Care of the Dying: A Modern History (2007).

In 2013 he was interviewed for the National Oral History Archive, the National Library of Australia (since 1960 the Archive has recorded interviews with Australians who have distinguished themselves in the arts, sport, politics, the law, media, education and science) concerning his "outstanding and pioneering career as an historian of medicine and public health".