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Have a safe journey home from Bangalore!

Thank you for participating in the 10th World Congress!


We look forward to seeing you in Barcelona on

8-12 March 2027 at the

11th World Congress on Women's Mental Health World!

Saturday 8 March 2025

Congress News Brief


A full day of symposia, workshops, oral and poster sessions are scheduled today.


To view the today's program, click here!

To view the entire Congress program, click here!


Continuing Medical Education (CME)


International registrants (not a resident of India) will receive an important email next week from info@iawmh.org that will contain a link for a survey to complete online and a form to report earned credit hours. The Accreditation Review Committee (ARC) of the American Association of Continuing Medical Education® designates the Congress for a maximum of 28.25 hours in the Category 1 credit of the Association’s Designation. Each participant must claim only those credits that he/she actually spent in the activity.

Yesterday's General Assembly Introduced IAWMH's Executive Committee for the 2025-2027 Term


Congratulations to the new Executive Committee whose term starts as the Congress ends.


President - Judith Usall i Rodié, MD

Senior Psychiatrist. Coordinator of the Severe Mental Disorders Group at the Research Unit, Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu (PSSJD). Sant Boi. Barcelona. Coordinator of the Catalan Research Workgroup on Women’s Mental Health (GTRDSM) in the Catalan Society of Psychiatry and Mental Health

(Societat Catalana de Psiquiatria i Salut Mental), Barcelona, SPAIN


President-elect - Dr Gihan ELNahas

Prof of Psychiatry

Head of Liaison Psychiatry Unit

Head of Women Mental Health Program

Head of Tobacco Control and Cessation Unit

Chair CME Committee

Institute of Psychiatry-Ain Shams Medical School

Cairo, EGYPT


Secretary - Ruby C. Castilla-Puentes, MD, DrPH, MBA 

President of WARMI (woman in Quechua), a network dedicated to promoting women's mental health. Current President of the American Psychiatric Association Hispanic Caucus (2024-2027)

Past-President of the American Society of Hispanic Psychiatry (2020-2022)

Bogota, COLOMBIA


Treasurer - Susan G. Kornstein, MD

Professor of Psychiatry and Obstetrics/Gynecology

Executive Director, Institute for Women’s Health

Executive Director, Mood Disorders Institute

Virginia Commonwealth University

Richmond, Virginia, USA


Immediate Past President -

Prabha S. Chandra MD, FRCPE, FRCPsych, FAMS

Senior Professor of Psychiatry and Dean, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, NIMHANS

Bangalore, INDIA

IAWMH Leadership 2025-2027, from left: Florence Thibaut, Past President; Judith Usall i Rodié, President 2025-2027; Prabha Chandra, Immediate Past President; Gihan ELNahas, President-elect; and Debra Tucker, Executive Director. Not pictured - Ruby C. Castilla-Puentes

Don't miss these keynote speakers and plenary sessions today, Saturday 8 March!

9:00am - 9:30am

Surfeit of Caregiving and Mismatch of Gender Role Expectations: Women’s Mental Health at the Cusp of Social Change

Dr. Hela Ouennich, Tunisia

9:30am - 10:00am

Role Assignment: Infant Girls to Women's Mental Health

Prof Christina Hoven, USA

2:00pm - 2:30pm

Unanswered Questions about Suicide in Woman and Girls

Dr. Lakshmi Vijayakumar, India

2:30pm - 3:00pm

Women and Psychosis: Challenges for Future Research

Prof Judith Usall, Spain


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