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
- Impact Story of the Week:
- Global Mental Health Assessment Database
- Opportunities
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Global Mental Health Events in the Local Community
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Home-visiting based and lay-worker delivered ECD intervention improves parent and child outcomes among poor families in Rwanda
Global Dinner Series
Tuesday May 21st, 2019 6:30-7:30pm
MGH Bulfinch Building, Room 225 - Trustees Room 55 Fruit Street, Boston
Presenter
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Sarah K.G. Jensen, PhD
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Research Program on Children and Adversity - Boston College, School of Social Work
Dr. Jensen will review results from an ongoing cluster randomized trial testing the effectiveness of the Sugira Muryango, a home visiting-based early child development intervention with violence-prevention offered to economically vulnerable (Ubedehe 1) families with children aged 6–36 months.
The Global Dinner Series is a collaboration between: 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
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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A Give an Hour Collective Impact Effort
June 9th - June 15th 2019
A Week to Change Direction will be a week of action, advocacy, culture change and fundraising for organizations, corporations, universities, communities, and individuals! Our aim is to increase knowledge, raise awareness and increase support for efforts that are working to change the culture of mental health globally so that all in need receive the care and support they deserve. During this Week we will also be holding a Change Direction Jam brought to you by IBM. The Jam is a global on-line conversation – actually it is many conversations happening simultaneously over 3 days! We will have subject matter experts, facilitators, hosts and a few of our celebrity friends – all contributing to this amazing opportunity to #ChangeMentalHealth!
It's easy to get involved. Click this link to find out more!
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Global Mental Health Impact Story of the Week
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GMhAD is an open toolkit for global mental health assessment tools. Submissions for the database should aim to assess mental disorders (e.g., depression, anxiety, PTSD) or locally recognized forms of distress (e.g., cultural concepts of distress, idioms of distress). The tools should be designed for use in low and/or middle income countries, the Global South, or among displaced populations (e.g., Cambodian refugees in the US). Submitted tools should be culturally and linguistically appropriate for their intended setting(s) and may be developed, adapted, and/or validated for use among one or a number of subgroups within a population.
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Under the direction of Dr. Charles Nelson, the Laboratories of Cognitive Neuroscience is seeking a project coordinator to implement and administer the day-to-day operations and functions of a large, multi-site project conducted in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The coordinator will be based in Boston and will work closely with research staff in the US and Bangladesh on oversight of experiments, coordination between sites, maintenance of data quality, and planning of study activities. See link for more details.
The Labs of Cognitive Neuroscience at Boston Children’s Hospital are seeking a full-time Research Data Manager to work on four dynamic research projects: The Bucharest Early Intervention Project, Early Institutionalization Intervention Impact Project, the Bangladesh Early Adversity Neuroimaging Project, and the Emotion Project. From an 18-year-old, high-impact research study to a newly-conceptualized project, this position involves overseeing data from multiple types of assessments (e.g., questionnaires, behavioral observations, electrophysiology, MRI, genetic and other biological data) from collection to publication across a variety of research questions. Three of the projects, each conducted overseas, investigate the effects of early adversity and one, conducted in lab, examines the development of emotion processing and anxiety. See link for more details.
Research Assistant position is available beginning in June 2019 interested in working on a mixed methods psychosocial intervention project for young mothers. Applicant must be bilingual in English/Spanish and be able to translate transcripts of interviews from Spanish into English. Opportunities for co-authorship of papers are available. To apply, please send a resume and contact information for two references by email to
Dr. Lauren Friedman
. Applications will be considered as they arrive.
A central goal of the
BRAIN Initiative
is to ensure that the expertise required to use the tools developed from this landmark program are shared with the scientific community (see BRAIN 2025: A Scientific Vision). The program strives to increase training in cutting edge research approaches and techniques as well as quantitative neuroscience by offering early career training opportunities to ensure the next generation of researchers has the necessary skills to lead new scientific breakthroughs, as well as providing cross-disciplinary career development opportunities to expand technical acumen.
MGH Global Health, position based in Mbarara, Uganda
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. Questions - reach out to Dr.
Alex Tsai
Professor Shekhar Saxena
is seeking a student research assistant for part-time work on projects related to Global Mental Health at Harvard (GMH@Harvard). The work will primarily involve researching and preparing background documents for a new project “Countdown Mental Health 2030” but assistance on other GMH@Harvard projects may also be needed.
The position is suited for Harvard post-doctoral students with interest in mental health, but exceptional candidates at pre-doctoral level will also be considered.
Position is limited to Harvard students ONLY -
Please do not apply if you are not a current Harvard student.
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.
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