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Kicking off in August, the National Institute of Mental Health's (NIMH) Office for Disparities Research and Workforce Diversity is hosting a Disability, Equity, and Mental Health Research Webinar Series, which focuses on exploring the health disparities experienced by people with disability.
These include disparities in mental health outcomes, which can be further compounded for those with intersecting identities. This webinar series brings together researchers, advocates, and people with lived experience to discuss the intersection of disability, mental health, and race and ethnicity. Additionally, the series explores the notion of mental health conditions as a disability and considers the viewpoints of those with lived experience.
Date/Time: August 8, 2024, 1:00–2:30 p.m. ET
This webinar will introduce a range of approaches to meaningfully integrate individuals with lived experiences of psychiatric disabilities into mental health research.
Nev Jones, Ph.D., will discuss proven methods of integration and co-creation, including co-production, integration, and co-leadership, and highlight ways in which the NIMH research portfolio would benefit from greater emphasis on and high standards for meaningful inclusion.
Date/Time: September 9, 2024, 2:00–3:30 p.m. ET
In this webinar, Dielle Lundberg, M.P.H., and Jessica Chen, Ph.D., will introduce a conceptual framework outlining pathways through which structural ableism in public health and health care may contribute to health inequities for “people who are disabled, neurodivergent, chronically ill, mad, and/or living with mental illness” (Lundberg & Chen, 2023).
In doing so, they will draw on writing by disability studies and disability justice scholars and activists, which provides much of the basis for current understandings of ableism and related systems.
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