Professor Laurence Kirmayer from McGill University is a psychiatrist and expert in transcultural psychiatry.

He will be giving the opening keynote talk at the 21st Australasian Conference on Traumatic Stress, which will take place online on 14-18 September 2021: www.acots.org/

Prof Kirmayer's talk is entitled: "Landscapes of trauma: A social-ecological approach to cultural diversity in mental health research, theory and practice.".

The 2021 ACOTS conference is a collaboration between ASTSS (the Australasian Society for Traumatic Stress Studies) and Phoenix Australia – Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health.

The 2021 virtual conference will be of interest to a broad range of people interested in trauma, including practitioners, researchers, consumers, service developers and policy makers.