Bio: 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.
Placement: Harvard University
Mentors: Joseph Betancourt, M.D., M.P.H.
Project: Implementing Cultural Competency in Health Care: Findings of a Qualitative Study
Description: Dogra compared how health care providers in different organizations have developed, implemented, and evaluated cultural competence programs. She particularly focused on how such organizations have engaged with professionals regarding cultural competence issues. She conducted interviews with staff developing organizational policies regarding diversity and cultural competence at health plans and hospitals.