McGill Global Mental Health Program Launch
Please join us for the official launch of the McGill Global Mental Health Program.
The McGill Global Mental Health Program (GMHP) is a multidisciplinary initiative that aims to foster collaborative action research, capacity building, and knowledge exchange to address the disparities in mental health in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC).
The WHO, the World Bank and the IMF have recently acknowledged the need to make mental health a global development priority. McGill has a long history of engagement with the relevant issues, through the Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry and international development initiatives from many Faculties and Departments. The new Global Mental Health Program will link these diverse activities together to strengthen McGill’s international partnerships for training, research and policy activities and build local capacity in LMIC to address mental health problems. The program builds on McGill’s longstanding leadership in cultural psychiatry by bringing the methods and perspectives of social sciences, psychiatry, psychology and allied disciplines to bear on understanding and responding to mental health problems in international contexts. The program is led by Dr. Laurence Kirmayer and a steering committee of faculty from anthropology, epidemiology, family medicine, law, physical and occupational therapy, psychiatry, psychology, social studies of medicine, and social work.
Program:
5:30-6:30pm Overview of the McGill program and reflections on the future of global mental health from the Dean of the McGill Faculty of Medicine, the Director of Global Health, faculty, and international partners
6:30-7:30pm Reception and poster session
7:30-9:00pm Symposium on “Integrating Ethnography and Critical Anthropology in Global Mental Health” in honour of Duncan Pedersen
Kindly RSVP for the launch here.
The launch will come at the end of a day-long conference (8:30 AM to 5:00 PM) on Psychiatry for a Small Planet: Ecosocial Approaches to Global Mental Health. To attend the full day conference (fees apply) please visit the Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry website.
