Professor; Director Program for Recovery and Community Health; Director DEIA, Yale Center for Clinical Investigation
Yale School
Yale, Connecticut
Chyrell D. Bellamy, PhD, MSW, is a Professor at Yale School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry; Director of Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health (PRCH); and Associate Director of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility, Yale Center for Clinical Investigation (YCCI). At PRCH, she is the Director of Peer Support Services & Research and Director of the Lived Experience Transformational Leadership Academy (LET(s)Lead). Her research and practice examine sociocultural experiences and pathways to wellness and recovery in the prevention and treatment of mental illness and addictions; peer support effectiveness; organization and leadership transformation with a focus on antiracism, cultural humility, and responsiveness; lived experience leadership; and community-based participatory research/co-design methods.
Dr. Bellamy has served on more than 42 NIH, PCORI, SAMHSA, CT DMHAS, RWJ, and private foundation-funded grants nationally and internationally. Her work on developing leaders and researchers doing participatory work in research is known and respected globally. She has mentored/collaborated with scholars from the USA and internationally on career awards from NIH, NIDILLR, Fulbright, Diversity Supplements, and K awards. She is a co-founder and director of the International Yale Lived Experience Transformational Leadership Academy (LET(s)Lead), where she has worked with fellows from New Zealand, Canada, Toronto, Australia, and the USA on leadership and development projects.
Dr. Bellamy's personal experience is not just a part of her work, it's the heart of it. She openly identifies as a person with lived/living experience of multiple marginalized and minoritized identities, including mental illness, trauma, and addictions. This personal connection to her work is what makes her a compassionate and effective frontline service provider, clinician, social worker, community educator and organizer, trainer, program evaluator, and community and academic researcher in the health and behavioral health fields. Her extensive recognition in the field, including various federal and state grants for her work on peer support and community-based participatory development of interventions, and prestigious awards such as the Pearl Johnson Advocacy Award from the National Association for Rights Protection and Advocacy, The Steve Harrington Award from the National Association of Peer Support, the inaugural Celia Brown Advocacy Award from the Alliance for Rights and Recovery (formerly NYAPRS), and the Museum of African American Addiction, Treatment, and Recovery Hall of Fame Award, is a testament to her expertise and leadership.
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Thursday, October 17, 2024
2:35 PM – 2:55 PM ET
