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’: systematic review of the term and its implicit priorities
- Survey Participation
- Task Sharing and Improving Depression Treatments in India: ESSENCE
- Opportunities
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Global Mental Health Events in the Local Community
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Monday June 17th 6:00pm
Boston University School of Medicine
Join us for the June Global Dinner talk with
Christy A. Denckla, PhD.
Dr. Christy A. Denckla is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a Research Fellow at the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard whose work focuses and risk and resilience following exposure to adversity. Free & open to all. For more information and to RSVP, email
globallocalcenter@bmc.org
Thursday, June 20, 6:30-8:30pm
UNICEF USA Boston Office 18 Tremont St, Boston, MA 02108
Tuesday July 2, 2019, 8:00-9:00am
(followed by coffee hour from 9-10am)
Bornstein Family Amphitheater, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, 45 Francis St., Boston
Dr. Renee Salas, lead author on the 2018 Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change U.S. Brief, and Bill Ravanesi, Senior Director of the Green Building & Energy Program at Health Care Without Harm, will join Dr. Peter Wayne, Interim Director for the Osher Center, for this special installment of the Osher Integrative Medicine Grand Rounds. Topics will cover the key public health impacts of climate change and opportunities for Greater Boston, the carbon footprint of hospitals and the leadership role the healthcare industry can play in mitigating and adapting to climate change, and the role of integrative medicine in building health resilience and supporting behavior change relevant to low-carbon health care and well-being.
Three Short Presentations, Panel Discussion and Audience Q&A
Presenters:
Renee Salas, MD, MPH, MS, Harvard Global Health Institute; Bill Ravanesi, MA, MPH, Health Care Without Harm; Peter Wayne, PhD, Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at BWH/HMS.
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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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Read this
important systematic review
for all of us in the field of Global Mental Health written by our GMH@Harvard colleagues at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
In this review, first author Supriya Misra (who graduated with her Doctorate from the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at HSPH with the Class of 2019 this Spring) and her co-authors raise and try to answer the key questions we should all be thinking about: What is really included and identified as "global mental health" research? What are the implicit assumptions in what geographic regions and mental health conditions get included and which don't? When does public mental health research/clinical care become "global"? Why do some researchers choose to self-identify with this term for their work while others do not?
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Figure: Heat map of number of ‘global mental health’ empirical articles across 11 regions.
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Excerpt from the systematic review:
"After more than a decade, the work self-identifying as global mental health has evolved. There is a rapidly increasing number of research publications that use this term as part of their work, including many more empirical studies than at the outset. The term ‘global mental health’ has served as a unifying force to incorporate mental health into traditional global health work. It has also become a common label for academic training programmes, funding streams, conceptual pieces and empirical research. Although the research under the banner of ‘global mental health’ by no means captures the breadth of work and practice being done to improve the mental health of populations around the world, it clearly shows there is progress being made to include mental health in the mainstream global health agenda."
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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 an important project to develop a brief online measure of non-specialist health worker competence for delivering evidence-based psychological treatments for depression in primary care facilities in low-resource settings in India.
As part of this work, their team is conducting a short 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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Consider joining a mental health research study at the National Institute of Mental Health and help researchers transform the understanding and treatment of mental illnesses.
Learn more here.
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The Department of Psychiatry at Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto Canada
The Department of Psychiatry at Mount Sinai hospital welcomes applications for a Trial Coordinator to work on a project that endeavors to implement and evaluate the delivery of a brief, evidence-based, psychological treatment of behavioural activation for perinatal depression and anxiety. This project is funded by the
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)
. The Trial Coordinator reports to the Principal Investigator. Candidates can email their CV and cover letters directly to Dr.
Daisy Singla
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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. 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, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, MGH
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The Clinical Social Worker will provide program development, clinical training, direct service, and liaison activities in a growing system of primary care and specialty programs encompassing three hospital campuses and 12 neighborhood clinics. Social Worker's clinical services will occur at medical sites and will include evaluation, treatment planning, and treatment for children and adolescents in psychotherapeutic modalities as appropriate to diagnosis and treatment needs.
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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.
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The Senior Program Associate reports to the Associate Director for Global and Liberia Mental Health Program. The position works with the Associate Director in the design, implementation and evaluation/operational research specifically related to Global MH activities.
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Centre for Mental Health Law and Policy, Indian Law Society, Pune, India is pleased to announce ‘International Diploma in Mental Health, Human Rights and Law’ for the academic year 2019-20. The international diploma is run by Indian Law Society in collaboration with World Health Organization (WHO). Offered as a distance learning program to accommodate working professionals across the globe, this diploma enables you to integrate human rights into your practice. Last date for applications: June 30th 2019
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Contributes to the maintenance and further development of Médecins Sans Frontières in the field of mental health care integrated into medical activities according to the Operational Plan and the Department’s policy
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The CMHS Staff Clinician functions as a member of the CMHS Clinical Team, providing the full range of mental health services to Tufts University students from the Medford and SMFA campuses. These services include assessment; individual, couples, group counseling; and crisis intervention; as well as liaison/outreach activities, and community consultation.
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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.
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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.
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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. 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.
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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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