Catalyze, inspire, innovate for mental health
In this issue:
  • Events
  • GMH@Harvard 2nd Annual Open Day
  • Events in the Community
  • Save the Date
  • Impact Story of the Week
  • Opportunities
Events
GlobalMentalHealth@Harvard 2nd Annual Open Day
Celebrating the diversity of global mental health activities in our community
Saturday April 13th 2019 8:00am-5:00pm
The 2 nd  Annual GMH@Harvard Open Day will include presentations from faculty, staff, students, post-docs and trainees working in the field of GMH as well as small group workshop sessions on the topics presented. See the links below to apply to present. The event will also feature keynote speaker:  Patrick J. Kennedy ,  former Congressman (D-RI). Also look forward to breakfast, lunch, and ample time for networking opportunities included throughout the day.

GMH@Harvard is an initiative that aspires to elevate the profile of mental health as a fundamental public good and a universal human right. To do this, the initiative has been focusing on the following six key themes ( descriptions can be found here ): 
  • The Mental Health Workforce
  • Mental Health Promotion Science
  • Global Mental Health Delivery Science
  • Human Rights
  • Countdown Mental Health
  • Building our GMH Community
As a part of the 2nd Annual Open Day we are inviting faculty, staff, students (undergraduate and graduate), post-docs and trainees in our Harvard affiliated community to present on the work they are already doing that falls under one of the above six themes. Presentations will be under 10 minutes and should be a highlight of your work. Abstracts will be accepted until March 1st 2019. The GMH@Harvard Steering and Management Committees will select proposals for each theme to present at the Open Day. You will be notified whether or not your proposal is selected by March 9th. 
  • Must relate to one of the six key themes
  • Work to be presented can include, but is not limited to: research, education initiatives, practice, art, or community service.
  • 250 words
  • 3 main bullet points about the work you intend to present
Global Mental Health Events in the Community
Part of the Project on Law and Applied Neuroscience, a collaboration between the Center for Law, Brain & Behavior at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School.
Monday March 4th 2019 12:00pm
Carrie Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East B (2036) 1585 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, MA
At the center of contemporary political debate are the record numbers of migrant families and children at the U.S.-Mexico border. As these parents and children flee the trauma of violence in their native countries, they are now experiencing the trauma of navigating an increasingly hostile immigration system. What can neuroscience tell us about the effects of these traumatic experiences on the brains of the children and adults? And how might the neuroscience of trauma and brain development affect legal cases? Can advances in mobile neuroimaging provide practitioners with real-time brain evidence of trauma? Does neuroscience have a larger role to play in shaping our nation’s immigration policies? Join us for this special lunchtime event as we begin a dialogue between scientists and lawyers on neuroscience, trauma, and justice.


Psychosocial Interventions in Communities Affected by HIV: Lessons Learned from Program Participants in Haiti and Tanzania
Global Health Delivery Partnership Grand Rounds
Thursday March 7th 2019 9:00am-10:00am (coffee starting at 8:30am)
Carrie Hall, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Presenter: Mary Kay Smith Fawzi, ScD - Associate Epidemiologist, Division of Global Health Equity, Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Assistant Professor, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School. Epidemiologist, Partners in Health
Questions? Email: DGHEAdmin@partners.org
Save the Date
More information to come for the following GMH related events in the community:

Thursday Brown Bag Series
HSPH Department of Global Health & Population
Thursday March 14: Presenter: Satchit Balsari, Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine, HMS/BIDMC; Fellow, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights
Thursday March 28: Presenter: Shekhar Saxena , Professor of the Practice of Global Mental Health, GHP

Department Seminar
Wednesday April 10th 12:00-1:30pm: Presenter: Melino Ndayizigiye, MD, MMsC-GHD , Partners In Health in Lesotho 
Wednesday April 24th 12:00-1:30pm: Unanswered Questions on Gender and Generation: Reflections from Postconflict and Disaster Reearch in Indonesia. Presenter: Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, PhD
Global Mental Health Impact Story of the Week
In each newsletter we will be highlighting an "Impact Story of the Week" this will be a spotlight on either a person, organization, initiative, course, publication, research project, or student group in our community who are working in the global mental health field. If you wish to submit or nominate an Impact Story of the Week, fill out this form!
Community spotlight:
The GlobalMentalHealth@Harvard community produces a wide breadth of innovative research, and aims to catalyze collaboration across schools and departments.
Explore people, projects, and connections on our  GMH@Harvard Network Map . Fill out the form in the top right corner so you can join the network too!
Opportunities
The Health Service & Population Research Department at King’s College London is now accepting applications for Women’s Mental Health Research 2019. This three-day course aims to develop students’ knowledge and understanding of the nature and determinants of women’s mental health, and research principles and methods for the study of these issues and for the design and evaluation of strategies to improve women’s mental health. Students will also be provided with practical guidance on safety and ethical issues in women’s mental health research. Key topics include the risk of illness to the mother and child in the perinatal period and the relationship between domestic and sexual violence and women’s mental health. For more information and to apply, please visit the Short Courses prospectus here .
For more information, please contact: hspr-summerschools@kcl.ac.uk

The Dr. Mario Pagenel Fellowship in Global Mental Health Delivery provides an opportunity for career development in global mental health service delivery and research for post-graduate psychiatrists. Fellows develop expertise in the field while working in Haiti or Rwanda with Partners In Health (PIH) and in collaboration with the Harvard Medical School Department of Global Health and Social Medicine. Applications for the Dr. Mario Pagenel Global Health Fellowship in Haiti and Rwanda are currently being accepted. All application deadline has been extended to March 1st f or a Summer 2019 start date. Apply now! Please contact: Amruta Houde

The Geneva Challenge aims to encourage interdisciplinary problem solving analysis among master students on advancing human development within the scope of a relevant topic.
Global Health is a defining challenge of tomorrow’s world and is a critical concern for both developing and developed countries. As the key to this issue is an interdisciplinary solution, crossing traditional boundaries between academic disciplines, we are inviting Master students from all academic programmes and from anywhere in the world to provide helpful strategic recommendations. Five prizes, one per continent, we will be distributed. Registrations close on 24th March 2019. Submission due by 15th July 2019.
Do you have something to share with the Global Mental Health community?
Email Juliana Restivo at GMH_Admin@hms.harvard.edu and we will include it in our next
Global Mental Health @ Harvard Newsletter!