Kwame McKenzie

Kwame Julius McKenzie is the CEO of Wellesley Institute, a policy think tank based in Toronto, Ontario. Born in the United Kingdom, McKenzie is a physician and full professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. He has worked as physician, researcher, policy advisor, journalist and broadcaster.

Kwame McKenzie
Kwame McKenzie speaking about globalization and mental health
Born
Southall, London
NationalityBritish
OccupationCEO, physician, professor
Academic background
Alma materSouthampton University Medical School

Biography

McKenzie was born in Southall in West London to Vida Louise McKenzie and Arthur McKenzie who immigrated to the UK from the Caribbean in the late 1950s.  He attended Villiers High School, London and then Southampton University Medical School.

McKenzie was appointed as the CEO of the Wellesley Institute in May of 2014.[1]

He served as Chair of the Council of Canadian Academies’ panel on Mental Health and Medical Assistance in Dying,[2] Chair of the Health Equity External Advisory Committee at Health Quality Ontario and was appointed Commissioner at the Ontario Human Rights Commission in June 2016.[3] He is also a Medical Director of Health Equity at CAMH, the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

Activist stances


McKenzie was also a presenter on All in the Mind on BBC Radio 4, and has previously been a columnist for The Times and The Guardian newspapers in the UK, writing on issues of health, racism and equity,[4] as well as being a frequent guest on Canadian radio and television.

In 2005 McKenzie wrote an article in The Times, UK about racial stereotyping in the 2005 film King Kong, co-written, produced, and directed by Peter Jackson. In the piece titled, "Big black and bad stereotyping", McKenzie described it as feeding "into all the colonial hysteria about black hyper-sexuality."[5] The article received such a strong response from readers that McKenzie and The Times issued a challenge asking the public to find positive black images on television during the holiday season.[6]

Awards
  • 2018: Harry Jerome Trailblazer Award
  • 2017: CAMH 150 Difference Makers in Mental Health
  • 2017: Honorary Diploma Liberal Arts – George Brown College
  • 2015: Don Wasylenski Award for Global Health
  • 2015: Fred Fallis Award for Excellence in Online Education
  • 2011: African Canadian Achievement Award for Science
  • 2011: Dominican of Distinction Award

Selected publications
  • Kidd, Madan, Rallabandi, Cole, Muskat, Raja, Wiljer, McKenzie. Social entrepreneurship and mental health in low- and middle-income countries. CAMH, Toronto, Canada 2016  ISBN 978-1-77114-329-5 (paperback) ISBN 978-1-77114-330-1 (pdf)[7]
  • Morgan, Fearon, McKenzie. Society and Psychosis. Cambridge University Press. 2008[8]
  • McKenzie K: Understanding Depression. British Medical Association and Family Doctor Publications 1998 reprinted 1999/ 2000/2001/2002/2003/2004/2005/2006/2009/2012[9]
  • McKenzie K: Understanding Anxiety. British Medical Association and Family Doctor Publication (2006)[10]
  • McKenzie K: "Social capital and mental illness". British Journal of Psychiatry (2002)[11]

References
  1. "Doctor tends to Toronto's "urban health" in new role".
  2. "End of life chairs are seated".
  3. "ORHC meet our commissioners".
  4. McKenzie, Kwame (1 April 2007). "Kwame McKenzie: Being black in Britain is bad for your mental health". the Guardian.
  5. "big black and bad stereotyping".
  6. McKenzie, By Kwame (21 December 2005). "Big black and bad stereotyping a Christmas challenge" – via www.thetimes.co.uk.
  7. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2018-09-19. Retrieved 2018-07-03.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  8. Khandaker, Golam; Dibben, Claire (2008-03-20). "Society and Psychosis. Edited by C. Morgan, K. McKenzie and P. Fearon. (Pp. 266; £37.00;) Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. 2008". Psychological Medicine. 40 (6): 1053. doi:10.1017/S0033291710000644. ISBN 9780521689595 – via Cambridge Core.
  9. "Depression sample" (PDF). www.familydoctor.co.uk. 2013.
  10. "Anxiety sample" (PDF). www.familydoctor.co.uk. 2013.
  11. McKenzie, Kwame; Whitley, Rob; Weich, Scott (2002). "Social capital and mental health". The British Journal of Psychiatry. 181 (4): 280–283. doi:10.1192/bjp.181.4.280. PMID 12356653.
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