Mohamed Ibrahim

Dr. Mohamed Ibrahim is an assistant professor at the University of British Columbia School of Social Work. He completed his PhD at Simon Fraser University, Clinical Addiction Fellowship at British Columbia Center on Substance Use and Post-Graduate Certificate in Global Mental Health at Harvard University.

He is an affiliated research investigator with Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute and visiting professor at the Somali National University. His health leadership and clinical work covers over 20 years in East Africa including working in the Kenya public health care system, refugee health with Medicine Sans Frontiers (Doctors without Borders) at Dadaab Refugee Camp and humanitarian health in Somalia. Dr. Mohamed has extensive clinical experience in the mental health and addiction sector in Canada and United States.

Dr. Mohamed’s areas of research focus on health equity, human rights and mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) in lower- and middle-income countries and humanitarian settings.