INDIGENOUS HEALTH SOVEREIGNTY

Dr. Ranjbar serves as Associate Professor of Psychiatry, as well as Director for the Integrative Psychiatry Program. Dr. Ranjbar’s interests include integrative psychiatry, health disparities with a focus on Native American & Indigenous Population Health Sovereignty. Dr. Ranjbar has served for many years as a Faculty, Supervisor, and Project Advisor for The Center for Mind-Body Medicine where she has co-created health promotion programs for multiple populations, including in partnership with Indigenous persons and communities, and persons in and from her homelands of Iran. In seeing a need for cultural integration, reclamation, and long-term program development support, Dr. Ranjbar, along with a group of Indigenous women leaders, also co-founded EARTH: Empowering All Relatives To Heal, a nonprofit working to advance the creative training and delivery of integrative health initiatives in these and other populations.