Craig Katz, MD

Dr. Craig Katz is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Medical Education, and System Design and Global Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. Dr. Katz founded and directs Mount Sinai’s Program in Global Mental Health, an interest that grew out of his experience in organizing and providing psychiatric services to disaster affected communities since 1998 through an organization Dr. Katz co-founded and led, Disaster Psychiatry Outreach. Those efforts included organizing the psychiatric response to 9/11 in New York City, including starting and for many years directing the World Trade Center Mental Health Screening and Treatment Program for 9/11 responders. He currently is serving as Special Advisor to the Mount Sinai Center for Stress, Resilience, and Personal Growth, a new program being launched to address the mental health needs of Mount Sinai employees who have been at the epicenter of the COVID-19 response in New York City. Dr. Katz also serves as Faculty Director for Advocacy of Mount Sinai’s Human Rights Program. Dr. Katz has written and co-edited a number of books and papers in the fields of disaster psychiatry, human rights, and global psychiatry, including A Guide to Global Mental Health Practice: Seeing the Unseen.