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VIRTUAL EVENT: Mainstreaming global mental health in low and middle income countries through schools
20 May 2021, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
What are the opportunities and challenges of embedding mental health impact across education in low and middle income countries (LMIC)?
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Bernie Munoz
This DLL research seminar will explore the main findings from a project on mainstreaming global mental health, funded by the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF).
Outcomes will be considered from interviews with development researchers and professionals on the opportunities and challenges of embedding mental health impact across multiple contexts and sectors in LMIC. Particular attention will be given to education.
Worldwide, one billion people have a mental health disorder. Moreover, poor mental health disproportionately affects people in LMIC. Arguably, mental health is a right and tackling poor mental health is also a means of facilitating sustainable socio-economic development.
Global Mental Health aligns with Sustainable Development Goal 3: 'Good Health and Well-Being,' specifically 3.4: 'By 2030, reduce by one third premature mortality from non-communicable diseases through prevention and treatment and promote mental health and well-being.'
Global mental health strategies prioritise children and adolescents given the high prevalence of substance use disorder in this population, subsequent trajectory towards lifelong disadvantage, and suicide risk.
The education system in LMIC may provide an excellent context in which to lay the foundations for good mental health and, importantly, to reach beyond young people to include also their families and communities.
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About the Speaker
Anna Madill
Professor at the School of Psychology, University of Leeds
Anna is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society and of the Academy of Social Sciences.
She co-founded and chaired (2008-11) the British Psychological Society Qualitative Methods in Psychology Section.
She is also on the Editorial Board of the British Journal of Clinical Psychology, Qualitative Psychology, and Qualitative Research in Psychology. She is former Chair of the Crohn's and Colitis UK 'Living with Inflammatory Bowel Disease' Research Awards Committee.