Global mental health and sustainable development: challenges and opportunities
Inaugural lecture
Join us for the first lecture of the Dalhousie Global Mental Health Guest Lecture Series featuring Dr. Shekhar Saxena, Professor, Practice of Global Mental Health, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health; and, Former Director, Mental Health and Substance Abuse, World Health Organization.
Friday, May 3, 2024
3 to 4:30 p.m. Atlantic Time
Location
Nova Scotia Health Innovation Hub
13th Floor, South Tower, Nova Centre
1625 Grafton Street
Halifax, NS
OR online
In-person attendance is limited.
Registration is now closed.
Questions?
Contact Penney Miller.
Global mental health and sustainable development: challenges and opportunities
Learning objectives:
- To understand the two-way relation between global mental health and sustainable development.
- To become aware of recent advances in global mental health that have implications for sustainable development with specific reference to low resource settings.
- To develop insight into the priorities for policy, advocacy and research in global mental health as an integral component of sustainable development.
About the speaker
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Shekhar Saxena is Professor of the Practice of Global Mental Health at the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. He received his medical and psychiatry training at AIIMS, New Delhi where he worked later as a faculty member. He then moved to World Health Organization, Geneva and worked there for 20 years till 2018; the last 8 years as the director of mental health and substance abuse. He was the technical lead within WHO for the Mental Health Action Plan adopted by the World Health Assembly in 2013. Author of more than 350 academic papers, his expertise includes providing evidence-based advice and technical assistance to policy makers, businesses and civil society on mental health. He was a joint lead-editor of the Lancet Commission on Global Mental Health and Sustainable Development, 2018 and a member of GlobalMentalHealth@Harvard initiative. His areas of interest include public mental health policy, systems and social and economic determinants of mental health. https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/shekhar-saxena/ Twitter @ssaxenageneva |
Accreditation
This presentation is part of the Dalhousie Global Mental Health Guest Lecture Series
The Dalhousie Global Mental Health Guest Lecture Series is a self-approved group learning activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.