Nisha Dogra (U.K.), Ph.D., B.M., MRCPsych, M.D.
(United Kingdom)
Senior Lecturer
University of Leicester
and Honorary Consultant in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Greenwood Institute of Child Health.
Project Title: Case Studies to Compare Cultural Competency Training in Managed Care Organizations with Public Hospitals and Non-Health Businesses
Mentor: Joseph Betancourt, M.D., M.P.H.
Placement: Institute for Health Policy, Harvard Medical School
Harkness Fellowship Biography: Nisha Dogra, Ph.D., B.M., MRCPsych, M.D., a 2005-06 Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy, is clinical senior lecturer in child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Leicester. Dogra is involved in a wide variety of teaching and training events in undergraduate and postgraduate education, locally, nationally and internationally. She had the responsibility of acting as advisor to develop and evaluate a course on human diversity at the Medical University of Southern Africa. She is also supporting the development of learning and teaching in child mental health and teaching skills at the University of Varanasi in India. She is a member of the Institute of Learning and Teaching, which recognizes quality teachers. Her research interests include cultural diversity, training for medical students and healthcare professionals, effective methods and evaluation of training, and young people's perceptions of mental health services. Her clinical areas of interest include adolescents and the use of systemic practice beyond family therapy. After some experience in community paediatrics in Nottingham, she began her career in psychiatry. Dogra received a bachelor of medicine from the University of Southampton in 1986 and a doctorate from the University of Leicester in 2004.
E-mail: Nd13@le.ac.uk
Harkness-Related Publications
Dogra N. Betancourt J, Park E & Martinez L (2009) “The relationship between drivers and policy in the implementation of cultural competency training in health care.”2 Journal of the National Medical Association, 101:2; 127-133
Betancourt J, Dogra N. Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care: Health Alliance Policy Briefing. November 2006. Alliance for Health Reform. Washington DC.