Catalyze, inspire, innovate for mental health
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In this issue:
- Events
- GMH@Harvard 2nd Annual Open Day
- Events in the Local Community
- Events beyond the Greater Boston Area
- Save the Date
- Impact Stories of the Week
- Opportunities
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Thank you to everyone who attended and contributed to our 2nd Annual GMH@Harvard Open Day this past weekend! It has been fantastic to see the growth of the initiative over the past year and we are excited to see what we will do together in the next year!
Stay tuned for a recap of the day coming soon!
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Global Mental Health Events in the Local Community
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GMH@Harvard Guest Seminar Series
Happening now!
6 - 7:00pm
Kresge G2, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
677 Huntington Ave. Boston MA
Presente
r: Michèle Lamont, Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies; Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies; Director, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
With growing inequality, the American Dream is becoming less effective as a collective myth. With its focus on material success, competition and self-reliance, the intensified diffusion of neoliberal scripts of the self is leading the upper-middle class toward a mental health crisis while the working class and low-income groups do not have the resources needed to live the dream. This seminar discusses a possible way forward through broadening cultural membership by promoting new narratives of hope centered on a plurality of criteria of worth, ‘ordinary universalism’ and destigmatizing stigmatized groups.
RSVP HERE.
HMS Department of Global Health and Social Medicine Department Seminar
Wednesday April 24th 12:00-1:30pm
1st Floor Conference Room - 641 Huntingon Ave. Boston MA 02115
Center on the Developing Child - Harvard University
June 4th 2019, 9:00am - 5:00pm Cambridge, MA
Decades of research have shown it is possible to improve outcomes for children and families facing adversity. However, on average, the impacts of early childhood programs are modest, and they have not improved over time. So, how can we build better programs that achieve greater outcomes for more young children and families?
Do you want to build stronger programs & achieve better outcomes? Attend our Science-Based Innovation Training! We go beyond asking whether a program works, & ask: What about the program works? How does it make a difference? Who benefits most? Join us for this one-day training to help programs increase impact for children and families.
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Global Mental Health Events beyond the Greater Boston area
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October 25-28, 2019
Description from the President of the World Association of Social Psychiatry:
The theme of the Congress,
“Social determinants of mental health and access to care”
is contemporary and relevant. It reflects our concern for mental health in this age of globalization, commercialization and the merging of boundaries between nations. Despite rapid advances in all fields, enough attention has not been devoted to the social determinants of mental health. And access to care remains severely limited in most parts of the world including high income countries. Our world is changing as never before, which has profound implications for mental health. We are sure, the deliberations of the Congress will give us newer insights into the emerging dynamics in all these areas. We will have four days of rich scientific programme with invited lectures, symposia, workshops, free papers and posters. There will be also be cultural events and get togethers which will be very entertaining to you and families.
For more information and to submit an abstract to present contact:
Alina Puscas.
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December 9th - December 20th 2019
Goa, India
Register by April 31st for early bird rates!
This course is an excellent opportunity to enhance your understanding and skills in the field of global mental health. The course takes place annually at Sangath, Goa, India, and it welcomes participants from across the world to share their experiences and learn collaboratively. Email
LMH@Sangath.in
for more information.
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Global Mental Health Impact Story of the Week
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This initiative is a collaboration between
GlobalMentalHealth@Harvard
and 7 Cups Foundation. Its goal is to design and deploy a digital platform to build a mental health care workforce which is competent to deliver brief psychological treatments for common mental health problems with adequate quality. The goals of this initiative are aligned with the recommendations of the recent
Lancet Commission on Global Mental Health and Sustainable Development (2018)
: to exponentially increase access to quality, cutting-edge psychological therapies for mood, anxiety, trauma related and substance use disorders globally.
7 Cups Foundation will design and build the digital platform using its expertise in app-based training of psychosocial therapies and the tools developed by
Sangath
to train and supervise front-line workers in India. GlobalMentalHealth@Harvard will provide academic oversight to inform the content of the platform, assessments of competency and quality, and analyses of the impacts of training on provider and patient outcomes. The initiative is guided by leading
psychological treatment scientists
and engages a research design group to standardise the methodology for
digitizing curricula and competency assessments.
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The Brookline Center for Community Mental Health is hosting an event called Hand in Hand. Hand in Hand is an event where local women come together to create care packages for female clients seen at The Brookline Center, or female caregivers of clients. The Brookline Center for Community Mental Health needs help with setup, registration, and breakdown. The event will be held on Thursday, April 25 from 5:30-9:30 p.m. at 41 Garrison Road Brookline, MA 02445. Contact
gmh_admin@hms.harvard.edu
to be in touch with the organizers!
The Project Coordinator will work on an international research study with researchers at MGH Global Health as well as with research team members and collaborators in Mbarara, Uganda. The study is an interdisciplinary public health research study and implementation project that aims to improve the lives and livelihoods of the 5,000 residents of Nyakabare Parish in Mbarara, Uganda. The core of the research infrastructure is an ongoing, population-based social network cohort with a biannual community health fair. Smaller sub-studies are incorporated on an intermittent basis and, in the past, have included qualitative and mixed methods research related to water insecurity, parenting, child development, and rural livelihoods.This position is ideal for someone intending to pursue further study in epidemiology, global health research, medicine, psychology, or public health.
The Research Program on Children and Adversity (RPCA) at the School of Social Work focuses on improving protections and care for children, youth, and families facing multiple forms of adversity, including due to armed conflict, poverty, and infectious disease. The Program is devoted to applied cross-cultural research in health and human rights. RPCA research directly addresses strategies and methods to close the global implementation gap in providing protections and effective services for youth and families experiencing adversity.
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- The current implementation science research project links with an ongoing scale-up study of a cognitive behavioral therapy-based intervention (The Youth Readiness Intervention; YRI) for youth exposed to violence and other forms of adversity in Sierra Leone. The current project aims to investigate the indirect mental health benefits of the YRI among peers and caregivers of youth who receive the intervention. The study will also include cost-effectiveness and return on investment analysis. The Postdoctoral fellow will work on the implementation science research project at the direction of Drs. Theresa Betancourt (PI) and Alethea Desrosiers (Co-PI).
- Program Manager in Sierra Leone
- The Program Manager will be based in Sierra Leone. The Program Manager will oversee a local team and direct field logistics, manage day to day research team activities, manage research budgets, and liaise regularly with partner organizations on the ground as well as local and national government officials to fulfill the scientific aims of the project.
Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan, India
The Men Against Violence (MAV) collaborative is seeking to recruit one full-time Research
Fellow to assist in the design, implementation, and evaluation of a Gender-Based Violence
(GBV) prevention program in the rural district of Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan. The MAV
project involves the development of a culturally relevant GBV prevention campaign directed
towards young men, especially young husbands.MAV is a collaborative project between the Mata Jai Kaur Maternal and Child Health Centre, a non-profit that provides maternal and mental health care to mothers in Sri Ganganagar; Sangath, a mental health non-profit non-government organisation based in Goa, India; and Harvard Medical School Department of Global Health and Social Medicine.
Fluency in Hindi is a requirement.
Madhya Pradesh, India
Enabling translation of Science to Service to ENhance Depression CarE (ESSENCE) is a US National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) funded, five-year-long (2017-22) implementation research project being implemented in Madhya Pradesh, India. Its overall goal is to bridge the science to service gap and strengthen an existing collaborative network of institutions in South Asia (Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Nepal) by generating knowledge on effective and cost-effective training and implementation support methods for scaling up of evidence-based interventions for mental disorders, and building capacity in a range of key stakeholders to enhance the conduct of implementation research, the dissemination of its findings, and the uptake of this evidence in policy and programs, ultimately resulting in reduction of treatment gap for mental disorders. This fellowship aims to build implementation research capacity in four South Asian countries (India, Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Nepal) for knowledge generation by creating opportunities for early and mid-career global health researchers. Apply by April 15th. Applicants must be nationals of ESSENCE countries, i.e., India, Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Nepal;
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