Anne Hallward

Hallward was raised in Montreal, Canada as one of six children.{{cite journal |last1=Amoroso |first1=Amy |title=We Need To Talk|journal=The Sun Magazine |date=January 2019 |issue=517 |url=https://www.thesunmagazine.org/issues/517/we-need-to-talk |language=en}} She went to college at Harvard, where she wrote her thesis in social studies about the role of the Catholic Church in the People Power revolution in the Philippines. She then attended Harvard Medical School and completed her residency in psychiatry.{{cite journal |last1=Mehta |first1=Isabel |title=The Taliban and Trauma |journal=Harvard Magazine |date=August 1, 2022 |url=https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2022/08/asian-university-for-women}} Anne lives with her husband and son on an old farm in Maine. Together they raised sheep, turkeys and chickens for 8 years.

While on the faculty at Harvard Medical School, she co-designed and taught courses on death and dying, cultural humility, sexuality, and psychiatric interviewing.{{cite journal |last1=McDonough |first1=Molly |title=The Healing Airwaves |journal=Harvard Medicine Magazine |issue=Spring 2023 |url=https://magazine.hms.harvard.edu/articles/healing-airwaves |language=en}}

Hallward created an advocacy group called Hearing Aides to allow women to talk about their trauma before meeting their lawyer, but the group stopped offering services in 2018, following the travel ban by the Trump administration.{{cite web |last1=Harris |first1=Amy |title=Finding freedom from trauma: healing journeys of New Mainers |url=https://www.amjamboafrica.com/finding-freedom-from-trauma-healing-journeys-of-new-mainers/ |website=www.amjamboafrica.com |access-date=March 8, 2024 |date=June 10, 2021}} In 2014, Hallward presented a Tedx in Brunswick Maine.{{cite web |title=How telling our silenced stories can change the world {{!}} Anne Hallward {{!}} TEDxDirigo |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dMlsnrLN9U |website=YouTube |access-date=March 8, 2024 |language=en}}

Hallward has hosted public events aimed at raising awareness of mental health and opening safe spaces to speak about and address mental illness.{{cite journal |last1=Klufts |first1=Jamie |title=Shame, Longing, and Courage: A Conversation with Anne Hallward |url=https://safespaceradio.com/wp-content/uploads/SWV_MarApr2019_AnneHallward.pdf |access-date=March 8, 2024 |journal=Social Work Voice |issue=March/April 2019}} Hallward was interviewed on NPR's Here & Now program in 2023 about her experiences counseling Afghan and Bangladesh woman attending universities built for women in countries who restrict access to female education.{{cite web |title=University founded to give free education to women whose countries deny it |url=https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2023/01/10/bangledesh-asian-university-women |work=WBUR-FM |language=en |date=January 10, 2023}}

In 2008, Hallward founded Safe Space Radio,{{cite web |last1=Fisher |first1=Rich |title=ST Medical Monday: A Chat with Dr. Anne Hallward of Safe Space Radio |url=https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/studiotulsa/2020-12-07/st-medical-monday-a-chat-with-dr-anne-hallward-of-safe-space-radio |website=Public Radio Tulsa |access-date=March 8, 2024 |language=en |date=December 7, 2020}} self described as "the show about the subjects we would struggle with less if we could talk about them more".{{cite news |last1=Keyes |first1=Bob |title=Portland radio host gets national audience for series on sensitive topics |url=https://www.pressherald.com/2019/05/02/confronting-shame-on-a-national-scale/ |work=Portland Press Herald |date=May 2, 2019}}{{cite news |last1=Murphy |first1=Sean |title=Safe Space Radio: Challenging the stigma of mental illness |url=https://spectrumlocalnews.com/me/maine/news/2022/07/01/safe-space-radio--challenging-the-stigma-of-mental-illness |access-date=March 8, 2024 |work=spectrumlocalnews.com |date=July 2, 2022 |language=en}} It was broadcast on WMPG in Portland before being broadcast nationally on NPR stations.

The show won a Public Affairs Award from the Maine Association of Broadcasters in both 2013 and 2014.{{cite web |last1=Amoroso |first1=Amy |title=Radio as a Public Health Intervention |url=https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/radio-public-health-intervention |website=Psychiatric Times |access-date=March 8, 2024 |language=en |date=June 11, 2015}}

In 2020, the show began releasing episodes to address mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic.{{cite news |last1=Halpert |first1=Julie |title=Stations respond to quickening drumbeat of mental health needs in their communities |url=https://current.org/2020/05/stations-respond-to-quickening-drumbeat-of-mental-health-needs-in-their-communities/ |access-date=March 8, 2024 |work=Current |date=May 5, 2020}} The show ended in June 2023 after broadcasting over 300 shows.

• Gracie Award for Outstanding Host of a Local Public Radio Show, The National Alliance for Women in Media in 2017
• Jeanne Spurlock Social Justice Award from the National Association of Women Psychiatrists in 2016{{cite news |last1=Rand |first1=Jim |title=WMPG programmer Dr. Anne Hallward Earns National Recognition for her Safe Space program! |url=https://www.wmpg.org/wmpgs-anne-hallward-earns-national-recognition/ |work=WMPG |date=May 24, 2016}}
• Ulrich B. Jacobsohn Lifetime Achievement Award from the Maine Association of Psychiatrists in 2016
• Exemplary Psychiatrist Award from the National Alliance on Mental Illness in 2013{{cite web |title=2013 Exemplary Psychiatrist Award Winners |url=https://www.nami.org/About-NAMI/NAMI-Awards/Exemplary-Psychiatrist-Awards/2013-Exemplary-Psychiatrist-Award-Winners |website=National Alliance on Mental Illness |access-date=March 8, 2024}}
• Fellowship Award by The Rockefeller Foundation (Bellagio, Italy) in 2024{{cite web |title=Bellagio Awards |url=https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/news/rockefeller-foundation-bellagio-center-announces-2024-residents-opens-call-for-2025/ |publisher=Rockefeller Foundation}}

• {{cite journal |last1=Ferris |first1=Timothy G.G. |last2=Hallward |first2=Anne |last3=Ronan |first3=Larry |last4=Billings |first4=J. Andrew |title=When the Patient Dies: A Survey of Medical Housestaff about Care after Death |journal=Journal of Palliative Medicine |date=September 1, 1998 |volume=1 |issue=3 |pages=231–239 |doi=10.1089/jpm.1998.1.231|pmid=15859833 }}
• {{cite book |last1=Hallward |first1=Anne |last2=Ellison |first2=James M. |title=Antidepressants and Sexual Function |date=2001 |location=London |publisher=Harcourt Health Communications}}
• {{cite journal |last1=White |first1=Augustus A |last2=Logghe |first2=Heather J. |last3=Goodenough |first3=Dan A. |last4=Barnes |first4=Linda L. |last5=Hallward |first5=Anne |last6=Allen |first6=Irving M. |last7=Green |first7=David W. |last8=Krupat |first8=Edward |last9=Llerena-Quinn |first9=Roxana |title=Self-Awareness and Cultural Identity as an Effort to Reduce Bias in Medicine |journal=Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities |date=February 2018 |volume=5 |issue=1 |pages=34–49 |doi=10.1007/s40615-017-0340-6|pmid=28342029 |s2cid=207502004 }}
• {{cite journal |last1=Powers |first1=Sara |last2=Craig |first2=Wendy |last3=Kohut |first3=Michael |last4=Hallward |first4=Anne |title=Narrative Podcasts to Foster Empathy and Reduce Stigma Among Third-Year Medical Students |journal=Academic Psychiatry |date=June 2023 |volume=47 |issue=3 |pages=287–291 |doi=10.1007/s40596-023-01764-y|pmid=36918469 |pmc=10014135 }}

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