Dr. Hicks is a transcultural psychiatrist who has worked with refugee issues traumatic experiences for community mental health teams in the U.S. and the UK. She studied in medical anthropology in the Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, where she later held academic positions.
Dr. Hicks uses quantitative and qualitative methods to study violence, psychiatric help seeking, suicidality and mental illness within communities. She has published on issues of domestic violence, depression, suicidality by immigrant women, clinical affairs in physician-assisted suicide and the appropriate use of cross measurements.
Her work in terms of public policy has included consulting the World Health Organization and the Royal College of Psychiatrists on domestic violence. Also addressed in the British Home Office to the Committee on Reform of the Law of Homicide, Psychiatric aspects of homicide in connection with the review of this Act contributed to the position statement of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in relation to assisted suicide by physicians that was filed by her before the House of Lords.
Madelyn Hsiao-Rei Hicks
Researcher associate
Email |Madelyn Hsiao-Rei Hicks, MD, MRCPsych, is Honorary Professor of the Department of Community and Cultural Psychiatry, Department of Health Services Research, Institute of Psychiatry, University of London.
