Michael Rowe, Ph.D. is a medical sociologist, a Professor of Psychiatry, and Co-Director of the Program for Recovery & Community Health (PRCH), Yale School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry. He is Principal Investigator of the Citizens Community Collaborative (CCC) and Co-Chair of the International Recovery & Citizenship Collective (IRCC). His areas of expertise include citizenship as a framework for the social inclusion and participation of persons with psychiatric disorders, mental health outreach to persons who are homeless, peers as providers of direct support and as researchers, and narrative medicine. Along with many articles and book chapters, he is the author or editor of six books including Crossing the Border: Encounters Between Homeless People and Outreach Workers, Classics of Community Psychiatry, and Citizenship and Mental Health.