JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Can Developing
Economies Afford to
Ignore Mental Health?
Vikram Patel, MD, PhD
Professor of International Mental Health & Wellcome Trust Senior Clinical Research Fellow in Tropical Medicine,
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Sangath, Goa, India.
Presentation: “The stage is set for new possibilities in global mental health”
Florence Baingana, MB ChB, M Med Psychiatry
Research Fellow, Makerere University School of Public Health.
Research Fellow, Personal Social Services Research Unit, London School of Economics and Political Science.
Presentation: “The decision to integrate mental health into primary health care: Uganda case study”
Martin Knapp, PhD
Professor of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science
Professor of Health Economics, Institute of Psychiatry.
Presentation: “How economics influences the case for mental health on the world stage”
Shekhar Saxena, MD
Programme Manager, Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, WHO
Coordinator, Evidence, Research and Action on Mental and Brain Disorders, WHO.
Presentation: "WHO cares: Advancing the cause of global mental health"
Thursday March 18, 2010
1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Wolfe St. Building, E2014 (Sommer Hall)
To register:
http://www.jhsph.edu/mental_health_initiatives/Events/2010_Sympo
sium/RegistrationPage.html
For information: [email protected]
Sponsored by the Center for Mental Health Initiatives, Department of Mental Health
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