Catalyze, inspire, innovate for mental health
Monday November 25th 2019
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In this issue:
  • Events
  • Events in the Local Community
  • Events beyond the Greater Boston Area
  • Global Mental Health in the News
  • Opportunities
Events
Global Mental Health Events in the Local Community
Tuesday December 3rd 2019 7:00-8:30pm
Macht Auditorium - Cambridge Hospital
1493 Cambridge St. Cambridge
Presenter: Philip Wang, MD, DRPH, Chair and Chief of Psychiatry, Cambridge Health Alliance, Harvard Medical School. Meet the new chief of Psychiatry at Cambridge Health Alliance and hear about new opportunities to detect and intervene earlier, as well as prevent mental health conditions in the community. Dr. Wang will address how this can be achieved by transforming CHA into a learning healthcare system, and Boston Metro North into a learning health community.
Tuesday, December 10th 2019 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Boston University School of Medicine, Wilkins Board Room E120 72 East Concord St. Boston
Global Dinner Series hosted by the Global & Local Center for Mental Health Disparities at Boston Medical Center & BU School of Medicine; Massachusetts General Hospital's Chester M. Pierce, MD Division of Global Psychiatry; Boston Children's Hospital; and Boston College School of Social Work 
Presenter: Brian Jack, MD, is Director of the BU Center for Health System Design & Implementation and Professor and former Chair of the Department of Family Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center. He has authored over 160 peer-reviewed articles or book chapters. He is currently PI on grants from AHRQ, HRSA, NIMHD, Fogarty Center, PCORI, Global Fund and the Kellogg Foundation.
Culture, Psychiatry and Global Mental Health - Friday Morning Seminars
Harvard Program in Medical Anthropology
Fridays 10:00-11:50am, William James Hall 1550
  • December 6 - Kim Gutschow (Williams College)
For more information reach out to Andrea Chiovenda
Save the Date: NAMIWalks Massachusetts
Saturday, May 16, 2020
NAMIWalks Massachusetts brings together thousands of people – mental health professionals, people diagnosed with a mental health condition and their friends and family -- to combat stigma, raise funds, and educate the public about mental illness. NAMI is recruiting volunteers for NAMIWalks Massachusetts 2020 Committees. NAMIWalks Massachusetts Committees will support all areas associated with the event and fundraiser. As a volunteer member of a walk committee, you will be working and coordinating your efforts with Karen Gromis and/or her Walk Associate. The first meeting of each committee will be during the weeks of December 9 and 16. Each walk committee will focus on one of the following areas: Sponsorship / WALK Team Retention / New Team Outreach / Recruitment of Volunteers for Friday before the Walk and Walk Day / Affiliate Fundraising.
 If you are ready to commit to volunteer for a NAMIWalk committee , please download and complete the NAMIWalk committee form . Email the form to kgromis@namimas.org
Global Mental Health Events beyond the Greater Boston area
Monday December 4th 2:00-3:30pm
Shelden Hall W1214, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Webcast available
2019 Johns Hopkins-Pulitzer Center Symposium
Across the globe, survivors of traumatic events endure devastating psychological effects—often without access to mental health services. At the seventh annual Johns Hopkins-Pulitzer Symposium, Bloomberg School faculty and award-winning journalists from the Pulitzer Center share their findings from trauma’s frontlines and explore ways to heal its wounds. Speakers include: Kimberly Dozler , CNN Global Affairs Analyst, Dr. Laura Murray , Bloomberg School of Public Health's Department of Mental Health, Pat Nabong , journalist and Pulitzer Center grantee, Dr. Paul Spiegel Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Humanitarian Health and Dr. Judy Bass , Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Mental Health.
Monday December 9th 4:00pm - 5:15pm
6th Floor Board Room NYSPI Pardes Building, NYC, New York
Columbia University Seminar Series on Global Mental Health
Presenter: María Elena Medina-Mora is a leading figure in mental health and the reform of mental health and substance abuse services in Mexico, with a decades-long commitment to research and public health. She served as Director-General Director of the Mexican National Institute of Psychiatry (INP) for 12 years (the maximum term). She founded and leads the Center for Global Mental Health Research, which is the first such center established in a middle-income country and represents a collaboration between INP, the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), and the World Health Organization (WHO).
Global Mental Health in the News
Roundup of Global Mental Health stories in the media
from the past week
What can we do about the world’s mental health problem? - BBC News World Service
Professors Vikram Patel and Shekhar Saxena were interviewed by BBC for their programme called The Inquiry, also disseminated as a podcast with a large global audience. 
Mental Health Toolbox - MEDBOX The Aid Library
Have you checked out the MEDBOX's Mental Health Toolbox? With resources on Global Mental Health, Children/Adolescents, Psychosocial Support, PTSD, Training and Capacity Building, Substance Use Disorders and Addiction, Neurological Disorders and More!
The Technology is Here, It’s Time for Psychiatry to Adapt  - McLean News
Justin T. Baker, scientific director of the McLean Institute for Technology in Psychiatry thinks it’s time for psychiatry to adapt to a changing culture and a younger cohort of patients
Opportunities
Vacancies, Courses, Volunteer, Conference Presentations, & Scholarships
Opportunities based in the US
COMPASS is the helpline at NAMI Massachusetts. We provide information, resources, and support to help people navigate the complex mental health system and problem solve in difficult circumstances. The COMPASS helpline is open Monday through Friday, 9 am - 5 pm, and closed on weekends and major holidays. It is staffed by people with experience navigating the mental health system for themselves or a loved one, including NAMI Mass staff and volunteer Navigators. The COMPASS Justice System & Diversion Navigator will report to the COMPASS Director. The position is full-time (40 hrs/week), and based at the NAMI Mass state office in Boston. The Justice System & Diversion Navigator will support helpline operations and help build our capacity to serve people who have come into contact with the justice system, or are at risk for future contact, and their families.
NEW! Student Research Assistant/Internship Opportunity - Dr. Vikram Patel
Multiple student research assistant opportunities to work on projects in collaboration with India's leading NGO - Sangath . These projects address improving the care of people living with a range of mental disorders through digital innovations for training health care providers. Possible opportunities to travel to Sangath's project site in Bhopal, India. Interested? Email both Juliana Restivo and John Naslund with your resume/CV and a short description of your experience and research interests. Please only Boston based applicants at this time.
Opportunities Outside the US
Are you a researcher with MHPSS experience in fragile and humanitarian contexts? Are you able to engage communities, researchers and practitioners, governmental and non-governmental actors in the field of child and family MHPSS? Would you like to be part of a team setting a new direction for innovation and implementation science linking civil society, academics and policy makers around the globe? Hosted by Save the Children Denmark – a member of one of the world’s leading Child Rights-based organizations – the MHPSS Collaborative is a global platform for MHPSS research, practice, learningand advocacy. We connect key academic and humanitarian actors with local civil society to support quality MHPSS programs at scale for children and families in fragile and humanitarian contexts.
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