 Dr.
Soeren Buus Jensen, M.D., Ph.D. , Specialist in Psychiatry
Søren
Buus Jensen is a senior psychiatrist with significant experience
from general psychiatric treatment and sub-specialized as psychotherapist
in work with refugees and torture victims in Denmark. Through the
last 15 years he has been involved in international mental health
work especially in conflict and post-conflict countries.
Søren Buus is also a senior still highly active researcher
with more than 160 national and international publications, a doctoral
degree from Denmark and ongoing upfront research projects in the
developing world. He is on the editorial board of Journal of Traumatic
Stress and member of the UN-committee on Mental Health. In Denmark
he has consulted to several organizations working with refugees
and torture survivors and when he left Denmark (2000), he was the
Executive Director (Adm. Overlaege) at Glostrup Univ. Hospital,
Dept. Psychiatry. His international experience covers mental health/
human rights research in Chile on survivors of torture and other
organized violence. He was based 3 years in the Former Yugoslavia
(1994-1996) first in charge of WHO Mental Health Programs and later
chief (Special Representative) of the overall WHO Humanitarian Aid
Program. He was team leader for the evaluation of UNICEF’s
trauma work in Rwanda and recently WHO Researcher and Mental Health
Policy Advisor in Sierra Leone (2002). He just finalized a large
research project for UNICEF Somalia on child protection. Søren
Buus has recent experience from direct fieldwork in S. Sudan, N.
Uganda, Burundi (2000-2002), is affiliated with New York University
(Trauma Studies) and Senior Trainer at The South African Trauma
Institute (Joh.burg).
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