Catalyze, inspire, innovate for mental health
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In this issue:
- Events
- Events in the local community
- Events beyond the Greater Boston Area
- Survey Participation
- Opportunities
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Global Mental Health Events beyond the Greater Boston area
We have readers all over the world,
please email us
any events, webinars, conferences that are local for you and we'd be happy to promote them with our community!
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September 7th and 8th | Clare College, Cambridge, United Kingdom
In partnership with the Bedfordshire Centre for Mental Health Research and the University of Cambridge, this unique conference brings together scholars, faith leaders, healthcare providers and researchers to examine topics related to mental health across the global Muslim community. It will include keynote speakers, scholarly research presentations and panel discussions. Meeting planners are hoping to draw a wider audience from across Europe, Asia, and the Middle East-areas that the university's domestic conferences are unable to reach. The keynote speaker is Jonas R. Kunst of the University of Oslo and the founder and director of the Culture, Society, and Behavior Research Lab in Oslo. He developed and validated the Perceived Islamophobia Scale (PIS), showing that Islamophobia is associated with psychological distress in Muslims. For more information or if you have questions about the Conference, please email
msummhconference@gmail.com
September 25th - 28th | American University of Beirut, Lebanon
International Society for Social Pediatrics & Child Health 2019 Annual Meeting
The conference will inform us of the realities facing children exposed globally to armed conflict and its impact on their physical and mental health. But most importantly—it will provide a forum for defining how we as pediatricians, child health professionals and child advocates can respond personally and professionally. The conference will launch a concerted and sustained global movement to do so—in collaboration with global organizations on the front line of this work.
November 5th - November 8th | Panamericano Hotel & Resort Buenos Aires City
The 2019 World Congress will be organized by the Argentinian Association for Mental Health (AASM), a voting member of the World Federation for Mental Health. With this Congress, AASM continues its tradition of organizing prestigious mass events that bring together almost four thousand local and international delegates every year. This World Congress follows the 2013 World Congress, also organized by the WFMH and the AASM, which brought together more than five thousand delegates from seventy-three countries. A variety of mental health professionals and members of the community took part in this event, along with users of mental health services and officials from numerous countries and international organizations around the world. Since it was founded in 1948, at its first conference in London, the WFMH has held World Congresses in different countries every two years. The most recent Congresses took place in Athens, Cape Town, Cairo and New Delhi.
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Need research participants for your project? Send us an advertisement and we will include your posting in our next newsletter.
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Survey will be live until July 31st!
Professor Vikram Patel and Dr. John Naslund of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School with colleagues at
Sangath
are leading a project with the goal of testing and validating a brief online measure of non-specialist health worker competence for delivering the
Healthy Activity Program
, an evidence-based brief psychological treatment for depression in primary care facilities in low-resource settings in India.
As part of this work, their team is conducting a survey to test and refine the different items that may be included as part of the measure. With this survey, we are reaching out to clinicians, students, health workers, and those not in health care fields who have both had training or who do not have any training in delivering psychological treatments for depression. It is important that we have a mix of individuals who are familiar with delivering psychological depression treatments and those who are not at all familiar to answer the survey questions.
We would be very grateful if you would be willing to answer these questions. We would also be delighted if you would be willing to share our survey within your network and with other colleagues, students or others who may be interested. Thank you for your help. Any questions please reach out to ESSENCE Research Assistant,
Juliana Lynn Restivo
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Opportunities -
Vacancies, Courses, Fellowships, & Scholarships
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Opportunities based in the US
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Closing date to apply is 15 July 2019. This requisition is for employment at the
Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)/Regional Office of the World Health Organization (WHO)
. The Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health (NMH) Department promotes, coordinates, and implements technical cooperation activities, directed at the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases and related risk factors, mental, neurological and substance abuse disorders, disabilities, violence, unintentional injuries, promotion of optimal nutrition and road safety, that are evidence-based and appropriate for the political and sociocultural context in which they are implemented. Position will be based in Washington DC, USA.
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The Disparities Research Unit is starting a project that involves improving access and quality to mental health services to racial/ethnic minorities here in Massachusetts. Right now we hiring people to work as Community Health Workers to provide an innovative psychosocial intervention as part of the research trial. Questions? Contact:
Irene Falgas Bague,
psychiatrist and researcher at Disparities Research Unit at MGH
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The Massachusetts General Hospital Ammon-Pinizzotto Center for Women’s Mental Health is dedicated to the evaluation and treatment of psychiatric disorders associated with female reproductive function. The Center provides consultation to women regarding the use of psychiatric medications during pregnancy and treatment for postpartum mood and anxiety disorders. The Center also treats women with premenstrual dysphoric disorder and menopause related mood and anxiety disorders.
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Opportunities based outside of the US
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Wellcome Trust is looking for an Evidence Lead for their Mental Health global programme? This programme is looking to improve outcomes for young people with anxiety and depression through research. Wellcome exists to improve health by helping great ideas to thrive. Wellcome Trust supports researchers, we take on big health challenges, we campaign for better science, and we help everyone get involved with science and health research. We are a politically and financially independent foundation.
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Grand Challenges Canada - Toronto, Ontario
Grand Challenges Canada is seeking a Program Officer in Global Mental Health, to play a critical role in supporting innovations to improve treatments and expand access to mental health care for people living in low- and middle-income countries.
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The Centre for Public Mental Health (CPMH) in the Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health at the University of Cape Town is seeking to appoint a part-time Senior Lecturer (50% FTE) to support the MPhil in Public Mental Health, and to conduct other postgraduate supervision and research in the Centre.
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A call for applications is open for the Master of Philosophy in Public Mental Health for 2020 offered by the Alan J. Flisher Centre for Public Mental Health (CPMH), a joint initiative of the Psychology Department at Stellenbosch University and the Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health at the University of Cape Town.
AMARI (African Mental Health Research Initiative) is offering four fellowships to candidates from partner countries (Ethiopia, South Africa, Malawi, and Zimbabwe)
to complete the MPhil in Public Mental Health in 2020.
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The Department of Psychiatry at Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto Canada
Scaling Up Psychological Treatments for Perinatal Depression and Anxiety Symptoms via Telemedicine
The Department of Psychiatry at Mount Sinai hospital welcomes applications for a Clinical Trial Manager to work on a project that endeavors to implement and evaluate the delivery of a brief, evidence-based, psychological intervention of behavioural activation for perinatal depression and anxiety. This project is funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). The Clinical Trial Manager will report to the Principal Investigator. As a member of the research team, the Clinical Trial Manager will collaborate with Investigators and the health care team in the coordination of the clinical trial. Under the direction of clinical investigators, the Clinical Trial Manager will manage and implement the recruitment, team members and data collection for the trial.
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The Department of Psychiatry at Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto Canada
Scaling Up Psychological Treatments for Perinatal Depression and Anxiety Symptoms via Telemedicine
The Post‐Doctoral Research Fellow would play an integral role in providing clinical guidance and best practice oversight for clinical study staff as well as the recruitment process. Together with a team of renown investigators and stakeholders, the study aims to conduct a large, multi‐site trial across Toronto, Chapel Hill and Chicago, which will examine scalable models to improve evidence‐based psychological treatments for perinatal depression and anxiety. The ideal applicant for this position would be trained in Behavioural Activation Therapy. The Post‐Doctoral Research Fellow will work closely with Dr. Singla as well as the other key Investigators to coordinate care in one of three Toronto‐based sites. The current position would be housed in the Department of Psychiatry at Sinai Health System which serves to address women’s maternal mental health needs during the perinatal period.This project is funded by the
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)
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The Research Associate will be working on two projects: 1: Poverty reduction, mental health, young people & 2: Mental wellbeing in ageing urban populations. Full time until 2021. Apply by July 17th.
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The Health Service & Population Research Department invite applications from enthusiastic and experienced individuals to join the Global Mental Health research group as a Research Associate in Global Mental Health. This is a fantastic opportunity to work with Professor Ricardo Araya to support two research projects which he leads; 'Cluster randomised controlled trial (RCT) for late life depression in socioeconomically deprived areas of Sao Paulo, Brazil (PROACTIVE)' and 'Optimising implementation strategies of the scale-up of a primary care psychological intervention: The Friendship Bench (FB) in Zimbabwe'.
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The Department of Mental Health of the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health is accepting applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor with experience and dedication to public health approaches to behavioral and mental health. Particular disciplines of high priority include psychiatric or neurological epidemiology, prevention science, quantitative methods, and mental health services or policy. The Department of Mental Health (DMH) is the only department dedicated to mental health in a school of public health in the country. We enjoy strong connections to each of the other departments within the Bloomberg School of Public Health (SPH) and across the Johns Hopkins University (JHU).
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If you are a Content Developer/Designer and are interested in a commission to develop dissemination materials for one of the World's top mental health research NGOs please send in your application at nikhil.yadav@sangath.in
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Email us at
GMH_Admin@hms.harvard.edu
and we will consider your submission for our next weekly newsletter.
GlobalMentalHealth@Harvard
is a cross-Harvard Initiative aspiring to elevate the profile of mental health as a global public good and a universal human right.
Views and opinions expressed in the newsletter do not necessarily reflect those of Harvard University. Any postings, including jobs, events, news articles and others, are meant for informational purposes only and do not represent endorsement by GMH@Harvard or any Harvard affiliated Schools or Hospitals.
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