Congratulations, Salomé Xavier, MD, PhD🎉

Salomé defended her PhD thesis , titled "Reframing Psychosis Risk: Social-Structural Determinants and First-Person Experiences in Ethno-racially Minoritized Populations". She brilliantly, thoughtfully and reflexively answered the many thought-provoking questions about a complex issue, posed by Philippe Conus, Myrna Lashley, Manuela Ferrari, Danielle Groleau and Srividya Iyer.

Professor Iyer and the whole team is happy to have accompanied this insightful, committed and brilliant clinician-scientist in her PhD journey and wish her the best for the next chapter in her career in Portugal, her home country.

Here are the four publications in her thesis

• https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13634615251326020  Reflections on the explanations of higher psychosis rates among migrant and ethnic minority populations: A critical discourse analysis

• https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17533015.2025.2551538 Narratives in context: a cellphilm study of the social experiences of persons with psychosis from different ethnic, racial and migrant backgrounds

• https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666560325001422?via%3Dihub Migrant integration policies, regional social disadvantage, ethnicity and psychosis risk: Findings from the EU-GEI study

• https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychiatry/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1602468/full Experiences and socio-environmental contexts in the lead-up to psychosis: a qualitative analysis of the narratives of persons with psychosis from different ethnic, racial and immigrant backgrounds

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Thank you Els van der Ven Manuela Ferrari Laurence Kirmayer for your mentorship as part of her doctoral committee.