The WPA-TPS offers two awards. Each of the awards are meant to promote scientific participation to the field of Transcultural Psychiatry.
- The Lectureship Award is a long-lasting award, meant to promote participation on WPA-TPS conferences.
- The Young Researcher Award is for the year 2013/2014, but will probably be repeated in the following years.
Winner of the Young Researcher Award 2013
The Committee of the Board of the Transcultural Section of the World Psychiatric Association has agreed on the Winner of the Young Researcher Award.
Marianne Kastrup, our vice-chair, is presenting the Young Researcher Award 2013 to Charlotte Sonne
The winner of the YRA will be Charlotte Sonne from Denmark, with her manuscript: Medical treatment of traumatised refugees. The committee concluded that this manuscript is quite a good review of the pharmacological treatment of a special group, and has many potentials to be published. She received the most points of the committee. In fact, the YRA was specially meant for researchers from LAMIC countries.
Ying Zhang, the winner of the Runner-Up Award with Xudong Zhao, her supervisor
The Committee decided to give another Award, the Runner-Up Award, to Ying Zhang, from China, for her manuscript: A cross-cultural comparison of climacteric symptoms, help-seeking behaviors and attitude towards menopause between Mosuo women and Han Chinese women. The committee concluded that this manuscript is original in its description of the Mosuo culture, and offers a good comparison between this culture and the Han Chinese culture, in an epidemiological study.
Prof. Michael Wirsching from Freiburg University, Germany, presents the Runner Up Award of the Young Researcher Competition of our Section to Dr. Ying Zhang, from the People’s Republic of China
The prizes, a certificate and the amounts of money, € 1000,- for the winner, and € 500,- for the Runner up, will be given to Charlotte and to Ying in person.