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Greetings from the NIMH Center for Global Mental Health Research (CGMHR).
We are glad to bring you another update through our monthly newsletter, with news about funding opportunities, meetings, and other items of interest for the Global Mental Health research community.
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The 12th Global Mental Health Research without Borders Conference brings together researchers, innovators, and other scholars from around the globe to highlight findings from cutting-edge science and explore new opportunities for groundbreaking research.
The 2023 Conference will be held in person. However, selected events may be live-streamed or recorded. Please note that live streaming is not guaranteed for all sessions. We apologize for any difficulties this might pose to those planning to attend remotely.
To attend the conference, please register.
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The abstract submission is now closed.
- The agenda includes academic activities, including:
- Two Keynote Speeches
- Two Fireside Chat Conversations with global leaders
- Plenary Panels on:
- Climate Change and Global Mental Health
- Decolonizing Global Mental Health Research
- Innovations in Implementation Science
- Design & Analysis Methods: Stratification, Precision Psychiatry and Data Science
- Research Symposia, Paper Discussions, and Poster Presentations on Precision Psychiatry, Climate Change, Youth Mental Health, Data Science, Decolonization of GMH Research, Suicide Prevention, and Innovations in Implementation Science
- Some of the speakers include:
- Esther Duflo, PhD - MIT (Nobel Prize of Economics 2019)
- Beatrice Ekesa, Ph.D, Senior Scientist & Country Representative, Bioversity International
- Christopher Alan Lund, Ph.D, Professor King's College London
- Dévora Kestel, Director of the WHO Department of Mental Health, Brain Health and Substance Use
- Mark Van Ommeren, Ph.D, Head of the Mental Health Unit within the WHO Department of Mental Health and Substance Use
- Thomas Lee Osborn, Co-Founder and CEO of The Shamiri Institute
- Jura Augustinavicius, Assistant Professor, McGill University
- Nikolaos Koutsouleris, MD, Ph.D, Head of Predictive Psychiatry, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
- Brian Pence, Ph.D, Professor University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Shuranjeet Singh, D.Phil candidate, Director of Taraki.
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Full Conference agenda will be released soon.
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Workshops: The organizers are planning to host the following workshops:
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Common Data Elements (Organized by the International Alliance of Mental Health Research Funders)
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Writing a Successful Global Mental Health Research Training Grant for the NIH (Organized by NIMH)
- Precision Psychiatry/Stratification in Global Mental Health Research – From First Principles to the Practise (Organized by The Wellcome Trust)
- Climate Change and Mental Health: Catalysing a Global Research Community – (Organized by The Wellcome Trust)
Contact
For questions about meeting logistics or difficulties registering, please get in touch with GMHConference@bizzellus.com.
For international attendees requiring visa assistance, please get in touch with Ms. Deysi Martinez via email at deysi.martinez@nih.gov.
In association with the Center for Global Mental Health Research, NIMH's Global Mental Health Team is proud to announce the inaugural NIMH Global Mental Health VISTA Awards: Visionary Innovators Shaping Tomorrow's Advancements.
This award highlights the work of early career researchers and acknowledges the importance of cultivating the next generation of leaders in global mental health research.
Awardees will be invited to attend the 2023 Global Mental Health Conference: Research without Borders, held from October 30th to November 1st, 2023, at the Natcher Conference Center on the NIH main campus. Over the course of the year, awardees will have the opportunity to interact with NIMH staff and leadership and to showcase their work at the Conference (including a poster presentation).
Application packets must be submitted via email (single PDF preferable) to NIMHGMHearlycareeraward@nih.gov by 11:59 PM EDT on September 6th, 2023, for full award consideration. Final awardee selections will be made in mid-September.
For more details, please visit https://www.gmhconference.com/early-career-award/.
NIMH seeks applications to support the development and pilot testing of outcomes-focused access and quality metrics in global mental health services research that could be reviewed, approved, and implemented by the relevant regulatory or governing domestic bodies of the country or countries where the research takes place. NIMH is interested in studies that take a theory-driven, empirical, and culturally appropriate approach to developing and testing measures utilizing real-world data. This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) aims to advance the development of novel and innovative research to assess outcomes mediated through changes in access to mental health care and quality of care across programs or clinical settings.
More information can be found at the following link:
Applications are due on: October 18, 2023
Please contact Leonardo Cubillos, M.D., MPH at leonardo.cubillos@nih.gov.
NIMH invites career development applications from low- or middle-income country (LMIC) research scientists to apply to the NIH K43 funding opportunity. NIMH, a co-funder of this program, is interested in applications that focus on mental disorders in LMICs, specifically conditions and disorders that affect cognition, perceptions, mood, social and emotional processing, daily functioning, behavior, and relationships. Mental disorders of interest include, but are not limited to depressive disorders, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, autism spectrum disorders, anxiety disorders, trauma, and stressor-related disorders such as posttraumatic stress disorder. NIMH is particularly interested in research that addresses better understanding the root causes, risk and protective factors, early detection and early intervention, and implementation research to improve the accessibility and availability of mental health care in LMICs, including but not limited to integration of mental health care into care for chronic, non-communicable or communicable diseases.
The Emerging Global Leader Award aims to provide research support and protected time (three to five years) to an early career research scientist from a LMIC who holds a junior faculty position at an LMIC academic or research institution. The intensive, mentored research career development experience is expected to lead to an independently funded research career at the LMIC institution or in another LMIC.
More information can be found at the following links:
Speakers: Dr. Supriya Bhavnani, Dr. Lerato Majara, Dr. Vikram Patel, Dr. Daniel Stein, Dr. Olivia Wootton, and members of the NIMH RDoC Unit
We invite you to join us for our next webinar titled "Real-World Opportunities and Challenges: Using NIMH's Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) Framework in Global Mental Health Research" on September 20th, 2023 at 9 AM EDT.
This webinar will discuss NIMH’s Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) initiative and its potential to inform (and be informed by) global mental health research. RDoC is a research framework that encourages the investigation of mental disorders from a perspective of basic functional dimensions (e.g., cognitive control), using many types of information – from genomics and neuroscience to behavior and environmental measures. The webinar will include an introduction to the RDoC framework and will feature presentations from two research groups whose work incorporates RDoC approaches in a global context.
To join us, please register.
You will be able to access recordings for all webinars from the Center for Global Mental Health Research Webinar Series in our main Center for Global Mental Health home page.
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