Jack Saul

Artist, Concerned citizen, Educator/Teacher, Jewish, Parent, Writer/Editor

Jack Saul Ph.D, is the director of the International Trauma Studies Program (ITSP) and Assistant Professor of Clinical Population and Family Health at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. As a psychologist and family therapist he has created numerous programs for populations that have endured war, torture and political violence, including the Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture, the FEMA funded Post 9/11 Downtown Community Resource Center in Lower Manhattan, REFUGE: Refugee Resource Center, and Theater Arts Against Political Violence. He has written about this work in his recently published book, Collective Trauma, Collective Healing: Promoting Community Resilience in the Aftermath of Disaster (Routledge, 2013). Dr. Saul co-directs the Summer Institute Global Mental Health and Psychosocial Support at Teachers College, Columbia University, and consults to humanitarian, human rights, and media organizations on staff stress management.

Narrative and Performance