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Dr. Shah has conducted programs in Ethiopia, Brazil, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and United States.
2001: After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Shah provided specialized psychosocial trauma services to communities (Arabs, Muslims, South Asians, Sikhs) affected by backlash and Islamophobia (hate crimes and bigotry perpetrated by people looking for revenge against innocents).
2002-2003: Shah traveled to Gujarat, India, where religious violence led to atrocities and numerous survivors of violence. He provided psychosocial training and vicarious trauma prevention to workers in different humanitarian organizations.
2004: Shah traveled to tsunami-affected Nagapattinam district in South India where he gave educational programs on vicarious trauma prevention to workers who were working with human remains, family reunion and survivor rehabilitation.
2005: After Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, Shah traveled to the Gulf Coast to consult to fire fighters and rescue personnel on operational stress and vicarious trauma.
2005-2006: After the devastating in Kashmir, Shah assembled a team and traveled to Pakistan where he conducted programs in Islamabad, Mansehra and Muzaffarabad to teach relief workers there psychosocial first aid and vicarious trauma prevention.
2006: Shah traveled to South Asia to give tsunami relief workers a program in self-care, as referenced by Ethan Watters in his 2010 publication.
2008: Under the auspices of Psychology Beyond Borders, Shah traveled to Addis Ababa to give a training on trauma and psychological first aid to physicians, nurses, social workers and fistula care specialists.
2008-2009: After the paramilitary attacks in Mumbai, Shah was invited by the Tata Institute for Social Sciences to give a program to local clinicians on psychosocial first aid and vicarious traumatizations prevention. He was also invited by the Times of India to teach journalists on trauma sensitivity and self-care. He, along with Dr. Grant Brenner of Disaster Psychiatry Outreach, was invited by the Bombay Psychiatric Society to provide a disaster psychiatry seminar to local psychiatrists.
In Washington, DC, Shah has worked with several organizations, including Doctors of the World (serving survivors of torture), Deshpande Foundation (philanthropic projects in livelihood) and Smith Farm Center for Healing & the Arts (wellness services for sufferers of cancer). He is currently overseeing the implementation of a USAID program for Civilian Response Corps, for which Greenleaf Integrative Strategies is primary contractor. This program, called “Operational Stress Control for Demanding Environments,” involves pre-deployment stress intervention skills, during mission resiliency coaching, and post-assignment health coaching components.
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