Keeping Mental Health on the Global Agenda: Opportunities at the Intersections
Monday, March 29th, 2021 at 10:00 am EST (via Zoom)
Over the last 30 years, mental disorders have remained among the most important drivers of global disease burden. Lessons learned in perinatal mental health, HIV prevention, care and treatment, and non-communicable disease management show that strategies for integrating care are feasible in high-resourced and lower resourced settings. Momentum is growing in global HIV programs and in the global mental health community to address the need for care alongside interventions to promote mental health and wellbeing. Two centers at UW directed by Dr. Pamela Collins-- UW Global Mental Health Program and the International Training and Education for Health (I-TECH)--are tackling these challenges and inviting opportunities for expanding implementation of evidence-based care and prevention of mental and substance use disorders.