Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA

Chyrell D. Bellamy (Bellamy-Sarr) has been an educator, advocate and activist in the AIDS field since 1987, specifically on behalf of women and people of color. She has collaborated on various projects with Imani Harrington for the last five years. Ms. Bellamy was an assistant director for the New Jersey Women and AIDS Network. She has studied and written articles about prevention and treatment issues of women living with HIV and understanding experiences of recovery from psychiatric illness.

cultural competence, culture, mental health services research, participatory research.