About
Renzo Bonn
Renzo Bonn is a psychiatrist. Retired from 2020. He worked (1982 – 1999) in Men-tal Health Services in Trieste (Italy), in the last years as Director of a 24 hours Mental Health Centre. From 2000 till 2020 he worked in the Udine Mental Health Services as Director of a 24 hours M.H.C, in the last years as Mental Health Department Di-rector. He had a 15 years’ experience in the Juvenile Court in Trieste as expert judge. He had many experiences during the war in former Yugoslavia: in 1993 for six months as project manager for an EU humanitarian project in the Bosnian area of Brcko; from 1994 as WHO Mental Health consultant.; from 1994 to 2000 he was in-volved in many short missions (training and needs assessment) in different areas (Mostar, Vukovar, Kotor, Beograd, Kosovo and Albania) an in 1998 for one year was project manager for a WHO project targeted in the implementation of 9 community Based Mental Health Services in BiH (Federation and Republika Srpska); as WHO consultant in the period 2001 – 2008 he was involved in several short missions in OPT (Jerusalem, Gaza, Hebron, Bethlehem, Tulkarem, Ramallah) for needs assess-ment and (mainly) for training of MH workers. From year 2003 till 2018 lecturer of Social Psychiatry in the Specialisation School for Psychiatrist, and in the school for Professional Educators in the Medicine Faculty in Udine. In the last years he was in-volved in different experiences in Italy, Uk, Serbia, Montenegro and Iran, and in the promotion of the WHO MH GAP program among general practitioners in the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region. He was member of the directive board of the WHO Collabo-rating Center for Mental Health of Trieste. In Udine, with the medical responsibility of the Police, worked in managing stress and suicide problems within police service.