Ezra E. H. Griffith (born 1942 in

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) is an American

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. Griffith is Professor Emeritus of and Senior Research Scientist in Psychiatry; Deputy Chair for Diversity and Organizational Ethics, Department of Psychiatry at the

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and Emeritus Professor of African and African-American Studies at Yale University.

Biography

When Griffith was 14 the family immigrated to New York City where he attended

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. His father was a pastor. He graduated from

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in 1963. He served with the American army in

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. Griffith earned his

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degree from the

University of Strasbourg The University of Strasbourg (french: Université de Strasbourg, Unistra) is a public research university located in Strasbourg, Alsace, France, with over 52,000 students and 3,300 researchers. The French university traces its history to the ea ...

in 1973. Griffith completed his residency in psychiatry at the

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, then joined the faculty of the Yale University School of Medicine. Griffith's fields of academic interest include cultural psychiatrist and ethnic identity; racial conflict; forensic psychiatry; psychiatry and religion; community psychiatry and administrative psychiatry. Griffith has served as President of the Connecticut District Branch of the

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, the American Board of Forensic Psychiatry, the Black Psychiatrists of America, the

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, and the American Orthopsychiatric Association.

Books

* ''I'm Your Father, Boy - A Family Memoir of Barbados,'' 2004 () * ''Race and Excellence: My Dialogue with Chester Pierce,'' 1998 () * ''Ye shall dream: Patriarch Granville Williams and the Barbados Spiritual Baptists,'' 2010, University of the West Indies Press * ''Clinical guidelines in cross-cultural mental health,'' 1988 ()

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Griffith, Ezra E. H. American psychiatrists Yale University faculty Harvard College alumni 1942 births Living people University of Strasbourg alumni Emigrants from British Barbados to the United States Boys High School (Brooklyn) alumni