World Mental Health Day 2026: Reception & Fireside Chat with the Artist

Please join physician-artist Dr. S. Abbas Shobeiri in conversation with Dr. Vikram Patel, Paul Farmer Professor at Harvard Medical School, inspired by this year’s World Mental Health Day theme, Lived Experiences Heard: Real Voices, Real Change. Together, they will explore trauma and healing, the importance of lived experience, and how storytelling and art can help us approach mental health differently.

5-6pm: Reception and guided tour of the Do You See Me exhibition

6-7pm: Fireside conversation with Dr. Shobeiri and Dr. Patel

Light refreshments will be served, and copies of Dr. Shobeiri’s newest exhibition book, Do You See Me, will be available for purchase and signing.

This event is co-sponsored by the HMS Center for Bioethics, the HMS Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, and Countway Library

Dr. Vikram Patel is Paul Farmer Professor and Chair of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School

Dr. S. Abbas Shobeiri is Division Chief of Benign Gynecology and Director of the Pelvic Floor Program at Inova Health System