This annual short course is run jointly with the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London. Please visit the Institute of Psychiatry website for course details and registration.
Course objectives
To provide participants with an understanding of the significance of mental health in the global context, the challenges involved in scaling up the coverage of evidence-based interventions to close the ‘mental health gap’ and recent progress towards achieving this objective.
To equip participants with an understanding of the application of epidemiological, health service and health system research methodologies to the furtherance of the global mental health agenda
Who could benefit from this course?
The course has previously attracted a very diverse body of students from high, middle and low income countries, including but not limited to:
- Development scientists, global health academics
- Government policymakers, health service planners
- Public health specialists
- Psychiatrists, psychologists, mental health nurses and other MH professionals
- Users and consumers of mental health services
- Mental health advocates
- Human and economic development agencies - policy officers, field operatives
The course teaching methods emphasizes a strong interactive and participatory element, with a variety of teaching methods including practicals and case studies, making the most of the wide range of backgrounds and relevant experiences contributed by participants.
Learning outcomes
By the end of the course, the participant should be able to:
- Explain the public health significance of mental illness from an international perspective
- Understand the application of epidemiological research methods to the study of global mental health and the adaptations needed to ensure cross-cultural validity
- Appreciate the extent of the treatment gap, and current attempts to reduce it
- Critically evaluate the influence of cultural, socio-economic, gender and health system factors on mental illness and mental health service delivery
- Understand the ethical issues with influence global mental health research
- Describe how mental health issues are related to and can be integrated with established public health priorities, such as maternal health and complex emergencies.
- Understand the methods to translate global mental health research into policy and practice
Registration
The registration fee will be as follows:
- £700 - delegates from low-income countries
- £450 - delegates from middle-income countries
- £225 - delegates from high-income countries
- £275 - full-time students without financial support
Please note that only sixty places are available.
How to Apply
Enquiries should be addressed, by e-mail, to the Institute of Psychiatry: imh@iop.kcl.ac.uk
Registration forms can be downloaded from the Institute of Psychiatry website.
Further Information
Further information is available on the Institute of Psychiatry website.
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