Mental Health & COVID-19 webinar series: World Mental Health Day: Activities and Campaigns

Mental Health & COVID-19 webinar series: World Mental Health Day: Activities and Campaigns

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Sep 18, 2020 @ 6:59 am

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Event type: Single day (a day or less)

In April 2020, The Lancet Psychiatry, Mental Health Innovation Network, MHPSS.net and United for Global Mental Health launched a webinar series designed to provide policy makers and the wider health community with the latest evidence on the impact of COVID-19 on mental health and how to address it.

Since then, we have seen increased interest in global mental health more generally and so have expanded the topics covered by the webinars beyond just COVID-19. 

Questions can be submitted in advance by email. The sessions are recorded, and summary notes produced. Any questions please contact: webinars@unitedgmh.org.

The speakers for this session include:

  • Ingrid Daniels, World Federation for Mental Health

  • Alison Brunier, World Health Organization

  • Erica Esposito, Speak Your Mind Campaign

  • Eleni Misganaw, Mental Health Service Users Association

More information will be available soon. To register for this session, click here.

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Key messages from this session's speakers:

  • Eleni Misganaw, Mental Health Service Users' Association Ethiopia: I hope that the involvement of people with lived experience will shine out and policymakers, stakeholders, researchers and everyone in the field will start involving lived experience and doing it meaningfully. 
     
  • Alison Brunier, World Health Organization: I hope that everybody that gets involved in World Mental Health Day has a better understanding of what they can do to support their own mental health. Also I hope that government, civil society, business leaders all go away and commit to action to invest in mental health.
     
  • Ingrid Daniels, World Federation for Mental Health: We want to see an increase in budget spend, for mental health across the world, and an increase in community based mental health initiatives that includes the voice of lived experience. I also hope that this combined effort and dialogue doesn’t stop, we must continue this pressure to see the desired outcomes.
     
  • Taha Sabri, Speak Your Mind: As a service user, physician, and advocate, I truly believe that by holding hands and working together we can achieve impact. I hope this momentum continues and grows until the world cries with one voice that we must move for mental health and invest. 

 

Additional notes are available here: https://unitedgmh.org/mental-health-all-wmhd and the webinar recording is available here: https://register.gotowebinar.c...g/390130225233540865

Oct 2, 2020 @ 2:49 am
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