Keynote speaker
John Woodall, M.D.
Dr. Woodall is the founder and director of The Unity Project, a not-for-profit corporation that promotes resilient competencies that transform crisis into opportunities for personal well-being, community development and economic prosperity. He is co-founder of the Healing Arts Project, working with New York City’s Department of Youth and Community Development to prepare youth for life in the global community.
A research fellow at the Judge Baker Children’s Center at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Woodall was the convener of Resilient Responses to Social Crisis Working Group at Harvard University’s Mind Brain Behavior Initiative. A board certified psychiatrist with a special expertise in post-traumatic stress disorder, he has consulted with government agencies, the United Nations, universities and international organizations on issues of community building and inter-ethnic reconciliation. He has worked extensively in war-torn countries providing psycho-social programming, community organization and consultation in areas of trauma response, conflict resolution and human rights. He directed a USAID funded refugee relief effort in Croatia and has continued with inter-ethnic coalition building efforts in Bosnia and the Middle East. Dr. Woodall is on the faculty of Harvard Medical School.
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