NIMH - Center for Global Mental Health Research (CGMHR) Updates October 2023
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.
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The agenda includes academic activities, including:
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Two Keynote Speeches
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Two Fireside Chat Conversations with global leaders.
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Plenary panels on:
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Climate Change and Global Mental Health
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Decolonizing Global Mental Health Research
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Innovations in Implementation Science
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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
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Speakers include:
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Esther Duflo, Ph.D - MIT (Nobel Prize of Economics 2019)
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Beatrice Ekesa, Ph.D, Senior Scientist & Country Representative, Bioversity International
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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
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Mark Van Ommeren, Ph.D, Head of the Mental Health Unit within the WHO Department of Mental Health and Substance Use
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Thomas Lee Osborn, Co-Founder and CEO of The Shamiri Institute
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Jura Augustinavicius, Assistant Professor, McGill University
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Nikolaos Koutsouleris, MD, Ph.D, Head of Predictive Psychiatry, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
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Brian Pence, Ph.D, Professor University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Shuranjeet Singh, D.Phil candidate, Director of Taraki.
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Bill Miller, MD, Ph.D., MPH, Research Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Soumitra Pathare, MD, Director, Centre for Mental Health Law & Policy
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Victor Mwapasa, Ph.D, Public Health Expert, Research Scientist and Professor at the University of Malawi, College of Medicine
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Pamela Collins, MD, MPH, Professor and Chair, Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
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Elaine C. Flores, Ph.D, Research Fellow in Human and Planetary Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health
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Courtney Welton-Mitchell, Ph.D, Assistant Professor, Center for Health, Work & Environment, Department of Environmental & Occupational Health, Colorado School of Public Health
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Fiona Charlson, Ph.D, Associate Professor, School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Queensland, Australia
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Paolo Fusar-Poli, Professor and Chair of Preventive Psychiatry at the Department of Psychosis Studies, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London
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Aristotle Voineskos, MD, PhD, FRCP(C), Vice-President Research & Director Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto
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Jaclyn Schess, Ph.D student in Health Policy at UC Berkeley
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Katherine Venturo-Conerly, PhD student, the Harvard Laboratory for Youth Mental Health and Co-Founder and Scientific Director of the Shamiri Institute
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Manasi Kumar, Ph.D, Senior Implementation Scientist and Mental Health Consultant, Brain and Mind Institute, Aga Khan University, Kenya
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Benjamin Lê Cook, Ph.D, Director of the Health Equity Research Lab at Cambridge Health Alliance, Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School
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Conference Agenda, please click here
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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)
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Climate Change and Mental Health: Catalysing a Global Research Community – (Organized by The Wellcome Trust)
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How to Write a Resume and an Introduction to Using Professional Social Media to Unlock Your Career Potential (Organized by NIMH)
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Social networking event (organized by Wellcome Trust). Please register here
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The Conference will use an event platform app called Swapcard. It will collect some information from participants and provide participants with a virtual platform to navigate the conference programs and connect with fellow participants. The app will be paid for by Grand Challenges Canada and operated by the International Alliance of Mental Health Research Funders. Confirmed attendees will receive an email with further information.
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.
The National Institute of Mental Health’s (NIMH) Global Mental Health Team is hosting a series of listening sessions to hear the perspectives and experiences of individuals involved in mental health research across a range of career stages and roles, including investigators, research staff, grants management and administrative staff, and policymakers.
We are particularly interested in hearing from individuals who are from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) or who are currently working at LMIC institutions, as well as from those in under-resourced communities.
During these sessions, the Global Mental Health Team hopes to gather insights and experiences about various aspects of mental health research, such as institutional capacity building, training, building independent careers, mentorship, applying for and managing grants, forming partnerships and collaborations, investing in long-term projects, and ensuring the relevance of mental health research in real-world practice.
Sessions will be held between mid-September and late October. Each session will offer 9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. ET and 10:00 p.m. – 11:30 p.m. ET time slots to accommodate time differences.
If you are interested in participating in a session, please register online.
The National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH) is looking to expand the pool of peer reviewers with mental health researchers who can bring diverse perspectives to the peer review process. Specifically, NIMH invites researchers with expertise and experience in global mental health research to join the institute’s peer review committee to assist with the review of applications dealing with global mental health.
Benefits of serving as a reviewer:
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Gain a better understanding of how applications are evaluated.
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Have an opportunity to network with eminent researchers who are on the panel.
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Have an academic and/or professional doctorate degree.
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Have at least 5 years post-doctoral experience.
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Demonstration of an active research program (e.g., publications, funded studies).
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
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:
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) invites applications for institutional research training programs in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs, as defined by the World Bank classification system) focused on training in global mental health research. NIMH, a co-funder of this program, is interested in training programs that provide education in state-of-the-art research skills (e.g., novel study designs, data analytic and modeling techniques, data collection tools, conceptual approaches, bioinformatic methods, genotyping technologies) needed for addressing the objectives of the current NIMH Strategic Plan.
More information can be found at the following link:
The National Institute of Mental Health’s (NIMH) Global Mental Health Team recognizes the importance of nurturing career growth and fostering innovation among researchers in the early stages of their careers. As such, NIMH is pleased to announce the finalists of the 2023 NIMH Global Mental Health VISTA Awards:
Christine Musyimi, Africa Mental Health Research and Training Foundation
Dristy Gurung, Transcultural Psychosocial Organization, King's College London
Enoch Azasu, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, Missouri
Helen Jack, University of Washington
Jermaine Dambi, University of Zimbabwe
Katherine Venturo-Conerly, Harvard University
Moiyattu Banya, New York University
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