Main conference theme:
Mental Health: Center-staging Human Rights, Ethics, Law, Research and Policy
Conference Program: Day 1 | Saturday, December 3, 2022 | Virtual
Conference Program: Day 1 | Speakers Biosketches | Saturday, December 3, 2022
Conference Program: Day 2 | Saturday, December 10, 2022 | Virtual
Conference Program: Day 2 | Speakers Biosketches | Saturday, December 10, 2022
Conference Program: Day 3 | Saturday, December 17, 2022 | In-Person at BALM, Madras school of Social Work, No. 32,CASA Major road,Sulaiman Zackria Avenue,Egmore,Chennai-600008,Tamil Nadu
Conference Program: Day 3 | Speakers Biosketches | Saturday, December 17, 2022
Conference Program: All Three Days
Presentations: Day 1
Session 1 | Global Mental Health & Social Justice
Keynote address: Speaker: Rochelle Burgess [Video]
Session 2: Mental Health, Marginalisation & Development
Panel Discussion: Speakers for individual themes:
- Deepa Pawar (Caste Discrimination & Mental Health) [Video]
- Sumeet Jain (Caste & Psychiatry) [Video]
- Ketki Ranade (Gender, Sexuality, & Mental Health) [Video]
- Hauwa Ojeifo (Race & Mental Health) [Video]
Moderator: Surinder Jaswal [Video]
Session 3: Inter-Sectoral Approaches to Suicide Prevention
Panel Discussion: Speakers for individual themes:
Daiane Borges Machado (Cash Transfers: An Evidence Based Strategy for Suicide Prevention) [Video]
Lakshmi Vijayakumar (Gender & Suicide Prevention) [Video]
Rakhi Dandona (Improving Data Surveillance Systems for Suicide Prevention) [Video]
Tanmoy Goswami (Centring Lived Experiences in Suicide Prevention Research) [Video]
Facilitator: Arjun Kapoor [Video]
Session 4: Contemporary Debates in Psychiatry: From Clinical Diagnosis to Recent Advances Soumitra Pathare in conversation with Awais Aftab [Video]
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Presentations: Day 2
Session 1 | Mental health research and rights of people with mental health problems
Keynote address: Speaker: Julian Eaton [Video]
Session 2 | Collaborative mental health research initiatives involving communities: Navigating through ethical dilemmas
Plenary 1: Speakers for individual themes:
- Marisha Wickremsinhe (Researching the ethics of involuntary admissions and democratization of access to care: Walking a tight rope) [Video]
Chair: Sunita Sheel Bandewar, (Director, HEaL Institute, FMES, Mumbai, and Founding Trustee, Vidhayak Trust, Pune) [Video]
Session 3 | Is participatory research in mental health truly participatory?
Panel Discussion 1 | Speakers for individual themes:
Audrey Prost [Video], Crick Lund [Video], Kaaren Mathias [Video]
Moderator: Rahul Shidhaye (Board Directors, WACP) [Video]
Session 4 | Research consent in vulnerable populations with compromised capacity
Panel Discussion 1 | Speakers for individual themes:
- Hanna Negussie Abnet (Project Coordinator, SPARK) [Video]
- Anant Bhan (Principal Investigator, Sangath, Bhopal) [Video]
- Chetna Duggal (Associate Professor, TISS, Mumbai) [Video]
Moderator: Sunita Simon Kurpad [Video]
Session 5 | Equity and diversity in global health research: countering imperialism
Keynote: Speaker: Gita Sen [Video]
Chairperson: Abhijeet Nadkarni [Video]
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Presentations: Day 3
Opening remarks: Sunita Sheel Bandewar, General Secretary, Forum for Medical Ethics Society,
KV Kishore Kumar, Director, The Banyan and BALM [Video]
Session 1 | Person-centered approaches towards Community Mental Health
Speakers:
- Godfrey Kagaayi – GMHPN, Uganda [Theme: Community care planning for persons with HIV] [Video]
- Sridhar Vaitheeswaran – SCARF, Chennai [Theme: Community care planning for the elderly] [Video]
- Chitra Venkateswaran – MEHAC, Kerala [Theme: Working with panchayats towards PPPs for persons with mental health issues] [Video]
- Ufra Mir – Peace Psychologist, International Centre for Peace Psychology, Kashmir [Video]
- Preeti Mathew and Satya Pillai – Rainbow Homes [Theme: Street children, community care and mental health] [Video]
Moderator: Alok Sarin – Sitaram Bhartia Institute, New Delhi [Video]
Session 2: Community-Centred Mental Healthcare: Struggles and Challenges, A Forum Theatre performance by Radha Ramaswamy [Video]
Session 3: Mental Health Training and Pedagogy – What should the next few years look like?
Speakers:
- Sanjeev Jain – NIMHANS, Bangalore and BALM, Chennai [Theme: Training for Case management towards person-centered and equity-based care] [Video]
- Tabassum Amina – BRAC University, Bangladesh [Theme: Humanitarian Play Labs and Children’s Education] [Video]
- Barbara Regeer – Vrije Universeteit, Amsterdam [Theme: Transdisciplinarity in Mental Health Pedagogy] [Video]
- Ashique Selim and Rubina Jahan - Sajida Foundation [Video]
- Poorna Chandrika – Institute for Mental Health [Video]
Moderator: Amar Jesani – Editor, Indian Journal of Medical Ethics, Mumbai [Video]
- Harsh Mander – Centre for Equity Studies [Theme: Homelessness and Severe mental illness] [Video]
Rapporteurs team presentation: Recap of Day 1 & Day 2 [Video]
Plenary Session 4: Valedictory Lecture and Closing Remarks
