London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Come and join us for a cross- faculty lunch time seminar. Researchers around the School will be speaking abut the importance of depression to their work, and people with lived experience of mental illness will also join us to share their stories.

12:30 – 12:40

Introduction to the event and World Health Day

Speaker 1: Arlinga Cerga-Pashoja, Research Fellow Trial Manager, Centre for Mental Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

12:40 - 12:50

Disability and Depression: Evidence from surveys in Cameroon, India and Guatemala

Speaker 2: Islay Mactaggart, Research Fellow in Disability and Global Health, International Centre for Evidence in Disability, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

12:50 – 1:00

Depression and maternal health

Speaker 3: Daniela Fuhr, Assistant Professor in Global Mental Health, Centre for Global Mental Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

1:00 – 1:10

Syndemic Suffering

Speaker 4: Emily Mendenhall, Assistant Professor of Global Health Science, Technology and International Affairs Program, Georgetown University

1:10 – 1:30

From personal experience to international advocacy

Speaker 5: Diane Kingston, Deputy Director, International Advocacy and Alliances, CMB International