REPORT AUTHORS

Jiří Pasz, MSc.

 

Journalist, photographer and researcher in the field humanitarian aid and development cooperation. He has long specialized in the topic of mental health and destigmatization. Jiri worked at the National Institute of Mental Health. He has experience in field research in Ukraine, Uganda, Nepal or Cambodia. Founder of the film festival 'Na hlavu' focused on mental health, author of awarded book "Normal Madness" focused on contemporary mental health care, as well as several audio documentaries for Czech Radio on topics such as life with migraine, ADHD and addictions.

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Mgr. Erik Siegl, Ph.D

 

A publicist and historian by training, he now works as a diplomat. Until 2023, he worked as the head of foreign projects at the Humanitarian and Development Center of Diakonie ČCE, where he coordinated aid in Ukraine, among other things. He graduated from the Faculty of Arts of Charles University (modern history of Eastern Europe and ethnology) and is the author of the book 'Resistant Democracy' about contemporary Turkey.

 

Prof. MUDr. Jiří Horáček, Ph.D., FCMA

 

Head of the Department of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology, 3rd Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, and Head of the Center for Advanced Brain and Consciousness Studies, National Institute of Mental Health (NUDZ). In 2022, he served as the coordinator for mental health during the Czech Presidency of the Council of the European Union (CZ PRES). As a researcher, psychiatrist, and psychotherapist, he is working with colleagues from the Veterans Mental Health Center in Lisova Polyana near Kiev on the implementation of psychedelic-assisted therapy in the treatment of PTSD.