
J. Wesley Boyd
Cognoscenti contributor
J. Wesley Boyd is an associate professor of psychiatry and on the faculty of the Center for Bioethics at Harvard Medical School. He is a staff psychiatrist at Cambridge Health Alliance and the co-founder and co-director of the Global Health and Human Rights Clinic at CHA.
Recently published

Sessions's Bleak Asylum Ruling Sends Us Back Decades
The decision threatens to eviscerate asylum protections for victims of domestic violence and gangs, write Sarah Sherman-Stokes and J. Wesley Boyd.

Leaving No Kid Behind: The Need For More Child Psychiatrists
Currently, vulnerable students with mental health emergencies might return to school after a psychiatric hospitalization, write Nancy Rappaport and J. Wesley Boyd.