BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250624T090756EDT-17991fdmig@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20250624T130756Z DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the official launch of the 51ԹGlobal Men tal Health Program. \n\nThe 51ԹGlobal Mental Health Program (GMHP) is a multidisciplinary initiative that aims to foster collaborative action re search\, capacity building\, and knowledge exchange to address the dispari ties in mental health in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC).\n \n The W HO\, the World Bank and the IMF have recently acknowledged the need to mak e mental health a global development priority. 51Թhas a long history o f engagement with the relevant issues\, through the Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry and international development initiatives from m any Faculties and Departments. The new Global Mental Health Program will l ink these diverse activities together to strengthen McGill’s international partnerships for training\, research and policy activities and build loca l capacity in LMIC to address mental health problems. The program builds o n McGill’s longstanding leadership in cultural psychiatry by bringing the methods and perspectives of social sciences\, psychiatry\, psychology and allied disciplines to bear on understanding and responding to mental healt h problems in international contexts. The program is led by Dr. Laurence K irmayer and a steering committee of faculty from anthropology\, epidemiolo gy\, family medicine\, law\, physical and occupational therapy\, psychiatr y\, psychology\, social studies of medicine\, and social work.\n \n Program: \n\n5:30-6:30pm  Overview of the 51Թprogram and reflections on the fut ure of global mental health from the Dean of the 51ԹFaculty of Medicin e\, the Director of Global Health\, faculty\, and international partners\n 6:30-7:30pm Reception and poster session\n 7:30-9:00pm Symposium on “Integr ating Ethnography and Critical Anthropology in Global Mental Health” in ho nour of Duncan Pedersen\n\nKindly RSVP for the launch here.\n\nThe launch will come at the end of a day-long conference (8:30 AM to 5:00 PM) on Psyc hiatry for a Small Planet: Ecosocial Approaches to Global Mental Health. T o attend the full day conference (fees apply) please visit the Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry website.\n DTSTART:20160530T213000Z DTEND:20160530T223000Z LOCATION:Auditorium\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3T 1E4\, Institute of Community & Family Psychiatry\, 4333 Côte Ste-Catherine Rd SUMMARY:51ԹGlobal Mental Health Program Launch URL:/globalhealth/channels/event/mcgill-global-mental- health-program-launch-260747 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR