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Global Mental Health Conference 2011 |
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The Perinatal Mental Health Project was well-represented at the World Congress of the World Federation for Mental Health recently hosted in Cape Town
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| Second Summit of the Movement for Global Mental Health and Launch of 2nd Lancet Series on Global Mental Health |
PMHP Director Dr Simone Honikman participated in the panel discussion on 'Best practices in scaling up of mental health care' on the topic 'Maternal Mental Health Care: a model for integration'.
Simone shared the stage with leaders in the field such as Dr Shekhar Saxena (Director of the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse at World Health Organization) and Dr Vikram Patel (Professor of International Mental Health and Welcome Trust Senior Clinical Research Fellow at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)
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Maternal mental health care - a model for integration
Access the 1st Lancet Series here
Access the 2nd Lancet Series here
Background about the Lancet Series at the Movement for Global Mental Health website
Click here to watch video footage of the launch at the Cape Town Congress |
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The PMHP Symposium entitled Maternal mental health: from the clinical to the political, facilitated by PMHP Director Dr Simone Honikmanl was well-attended.
Practice-informed presentations by Bronwyn Evans (Clinical Services Coordinator), Thandi van Heyningen (Research Coordinator) and Ingrid Meintjes (Advocacy & Communications Coordinator) sparked energetic discussion.
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From left to right: Dr Simone Honikman (PMHP Director), Ingrid Meintjes (PMHP Advocacy & Communications Coord), Bronwyn Evans (PMHP Clinical Services Coord), Linday Murray (Queensland University of Technology - 2009 Prime Minister’s Asia Australia Endeavour Award for PhD research on women’s mental health (PND) in Vietnam), Thandi van Heyningen (PMHP Research Coord)
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Symposium 2
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Thand van Heyningen, PMHP Research Coordinator, facilitated the PMHP symposium on Maternal mental health and refugee women.
Physicians and health practitioners from several African countries attended and contributed to hugely informative discussions. The symposium highlighted the scarcity of mental health services across Africa, being virtually inaccessible for marginalised and vulnerable populations, such as refugee women.
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Presentation 1: Advocacy - Structural violence, refugee status and maternal mental health
Presentation 2: Serivce - The PMHP 'refugee as counsellor' intervention |
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From left to right: Charlotte Mande-Ilunga (PMHP Refugee Counsellor), Thandi van Heyningen, Prof Astrid Berg (Senior Consultant and Lecturer at the UCT Parent-Infant Mental Health Service at Red Cross Children’s Hospital and Mdlezana Centre in Khayelitsha), Ingrid Meintjes |
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