Dr Brendan Johnson
Associate Member of Las Casas
Dr Brendan Johnson MD MTS is an Associate Member of Las Casas Institute for Social Justice. Brendan is also a medical resident in psychiatry at Brigham & Women’s Hospital (Harvard Medical School), a graduate of Duke Divinity School’s Theology, Medicine, and Culture fellowship, and cofounder of the Social Medicine On Air podcast. He has an academic interest in the influence of liberation theology and patristics on social medicine, and has published and spoken widely on the topic including at Blackfriars Hall, in an edited book on Dr Paul Farmer’s theological legacy, and in the academic medical literature.
Dr Johnson’s medical interests include community and global mental health, medical education and capacity building, and accompaniment-based approaches in psychiatry. He has experience with Partners in Health (PIH)’s accompaniment-based clinical and educational model in Peru, Haiti, and Sierra Leone, and is visiting faculty for the University of Global Health Equity (Rwanda). His artwork can be found in Christian Century and The Healer’s Vocation curriculum.