Global Mental Health Webinar Series: Critical Cultural, and Practical Perspectives
Co-constructing Knowledge in Global Mental Health
Global mental health is concerned with understanding and addressing mental health problems in diverse settings around the globe. The Movement for Global Mental Health (GMH) is an evidence-based global initiative that aims to close the treatment gap for people with mental disorders in low-and middle-income countries.
However, there are persistent controversies related to how systems of knowledge and practice are generated and circulate to reshape local health systems, and how the goals, values, needs and aspirations or communities can be reflected in the reconfiguration of the local health care system. The objective of this webinar is to critically examine some of the organizational, political and conceptual implications of global knowledge production and circulation for the transformation of the local mental health systems, research, and training.
Dr. Kirmayer’s presentation will explore how to advance GMH agenda for community mental health by revisiting the persistent tensions in GMH, recognizing the role of culture in structural competence, and emphasizing the need for pluralism and safe spaces for collaborative knowledge production, critical rethinking and person-centered mental health care.
Speaker: Dr. Laurence J. Kirmayer
McGill University, Montreal, Canada
James McGill Professor and Director, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University and Director of the McGill Global Mental Health Program
Director of the Culture & Mental Health Research Unit at the Institute of Community and Family Psychiatry, Jewish General Hospital in Montreal
Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and the Royal Society of Canada
Leads a CIHR Pathways to Health Equity Suicide Prevention Implementation Research Team
Moderators
Mónica Ruiz-Casares
PhD, MSc, MA, LLB
Associate Professor
Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, McGill University
Inés Bustamante Chávez
PhD, MPH, MHS
Vice Dean, School of Public Health and Administration, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia
June 7, 2018
7:15-8:15 pm (Montreal EDT) | 6:15-7:15 pm (Lima GMT-5)
Attendance: Online platform
Recordings
Recommended readings
Kirmayer, L. J., & Pedersen, D. (2014). Toward a new architecture for global mental health. Transcultural psychiatry, 51(6), 759-776.
Kirmayer, L. J. (2012). Cultural competence and evidence-based practice in mental health: Epistemic communities and the politics of pluralism. Social Science and Medicine, 75, 249-256
Bartlett, C., Marshall, M., & Marshall, A. (2012). Two-eyed seeing and other lessons learned within a co-learning journey of bringing together indigenous and mainstream knowledges and ways of knowing. Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, 2(4), 331-340.
Bemme, D., D'Souza N. (2014). Global Mental Health and its discontent: and inquiry into the making of global and local scale. Transcultural Psychiatry, 51(6), 850-874.
