Our research
The Trauma & Global Health Program’s Guatemalan team is focusing on four priority research areas:
- Transmission and trans-generational effects of sustained political violence in selected urban and rural populations
- Idioms of distress and healing practices among indigenous populations
- Development of clinical and epidemiological screening protocols for trauma-related disorders and violence against women, including workers of human rights’ organisations exposed to organised violence
- Clinical and community-based psychosocial interventions of forensic exhumations among the indigenous populations of Huehuetenango
Where we work
Research is concentrated in four rural areas with predominantly Mayan indigenous populations affected by violence:
- Quiche
- Sayaxche, Peten (South Western region)
- Rabinal, Baja Verapaz
- Huehuetenango: San Mateo-Ixtatan Yolcultac, Sebep , Petanac, Xequel, Patalcal, Bulej, Yalambojoch, Yaltoya, and Finca San Francisco