Harvey M. Weinstein

Harvey Weinstein headshotHarvey M. Weinstein, MD, MPH, is a retired Clinical Professor in the School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley. From 1998 to 2005, Dr. Weinstein was Associate Director of the Human Rights Center, where he directed the Forced Migration and Health Project. He worked in the Balkans (Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, and Croatia) and Rwanda for more than five years. He was Co-Principal Investigator on three recent projects: “Communities in Crisis: Justice, Accountability, and Social Reconstruction in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia,” “Intrastate Conflict and Social Reconstruction,” and “Education for Reconciliation.” With Eric Stover, he co-edited the book My Neighbor, My Enemy: Justice and Community in the Aftermath of Mass Atrocity (2004). He has worked on projects in South Africa, Kenya, Indonesia, Albania, Uganda, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, and Iraq. He authored a book on U.S. experimentation on unwitting human subjects entitled Psychiatry and the CIA: Victims of Mind Control (1990). He is editor-in-chief emeritus of the International Journal of Transitional Justice(link is external), a collaboration of the Human Rights Center and the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation in Johannesburg.