Joshua Ssebunnya
Butabika National Hospital / Makerere University
I am a Project Coordinator for PRIME in Uganda...Read more
PRIME is a consortium of research institutions and Ministries of Health in five countries in Asia and Africa (Ethiopia, India, Nepal, South Africa & Uganda), with partners in the UK and the World Health Organization (WHO). PRIME is supported by the UK government’s Department for International Development (DFID), and is a six year programme which was launched in May 2011.
The goal of PRIME is to generate world-class research evidence on the implementation and scaling up of treatment programmes for priority mental disorders in primary and maternal health care contexts in low resource settings.
In order to encourage the uptake of its research, PRIME keeps a track of mental health related conferences that are coming up.
Below are some global mental health related conferences which are relevant to the work of PRIME:
06-08 Feb 2014: World Psychiatric Association Regional Congress: Global Mental Health - Innovations and Opportunities for Sub-Saharan Africa. Kampala Uganda (Abstracts 30 Nov 2013)
11-15 Aug 2014: International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions (IACAPAP), Durban South Africa (Abstracts 31 Jan 2014)
14-18 Sept 2014: 16th World Congress on Psychiatry, Madrid Spain (Abstracts 1 Nov 2013 / Posters 1 Mar 2014)
30 Sep - 03 Oct 2014: Third Global Symposium on Health Systems Research, Cape Town South Africa. (Applications Open 14 Jan 2014)
For a more comprehensive list of Upcoming Conferences, visit the Movement for Global Mental Health (MGMH) Events page.
PLoS Medicine (18 Feb 2014)
PLoS Medicine (27 Dec 2012)
PLoS Medicine (29 May 2012)
Putting Evidence into Practice: The PLoS Medicine Series on Global Mental Health Practice
The Lancet (17 Oct 2011)
2nd Lancet Series on Global Mental Health
Click here to view a video of the launch or to listen to the audio version.
Mental Health Atlas 2011 (listen to WHO podcast, featuring PRIME partners Dr Shekhar Saxena and Dr Sheila Ndyanabangi from Uganda)
1st Lancet Series on Global Mental Health
WHO Mental Health & Development Report
01 April 2014: Biome interviews Vikram Patel on global mental health challenges and changing perceptions (Podcast)
14 Feb 2014: Nepali health worker's perspective on mental health
30 Jan 2014: Uganda: The voice of a woman facing stigma
20 Dec 2013: WISH comes true for Mental Health
03 Oct 2013: Mental health burden on families: a case of Nepal
25 Sept 2013: PRIME South Africa brings persons with HIV/AIDS and NCDs into sharp focus
22 April 2013: African-led mental health research programme meets in Ethiopia to develop mental health care plans
15 April 2013: Ethiopia hosts 3rd Annual Meeting of international mental health research programme (15-20 April 2013)
06 Dec 2012: Ethiopian Ministry of Health launches National Mental Health Strategy (2012-2016)
10 Oct 2012: Mental health and lost income: It costs South Africa more to not treat mental illness than to treat it
01 Oct 2012: PRIME calls for a human rights-based approach to mental health care in low-and middle-income countries
09 July 2012: PRIME launches in Ethiopia in partnership with Addis Ababa University and Federal Ministry of Health
25 May 2012: Promoting public mental health in Africa
10 May 2012: PRIME launches with local and international partners in Uganda
01 Mar 2012: PRIME-SA team launches research in strong partnership with national, provincial and local stakeholders
01 Dec 2011: World AIDS Day: Experts highlight the importance of mental health care
25 Oct 2011: South Africa places mental health care on the global and national agenda
10 Oct 2011: The need for mental health care highlighted on World Mental Health Day
12 Jul 2011: PRIME time for new project
20 Jun 2011: PRIME India & Nepal launch in Bhopal
11 Feb 2011: New project to PRIME mental health services
PRIME mhGAP in Ethiopia
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WHO: Mental Health Gap Action Programme
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TED talk on mental health & task-shifting by Vikram Patel
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BBC Focus on Africa interview with Mary De Silva
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PRIME is a Research Programme Consortium (RPC) led by the Centre for Public Mental Health at the University of Cape Town (South Africa), and funded by the UK government’s Department for International Development (DFID). The project aim is to develop world-class research evidence on the implementation, and scaling up of treatment programmes for priority mental disorders in primary and maternal health care contexts in low resource settings. Partners and collaborators in the consortium include Addis Ababa University and Ministry of Health (Ethiopia), Sangath, Public Health Foundation of India and Madhya Pradesh State Ministry of Health (India), Health Net TPO and Ministry of Health (Nepal), University of Kwazulu-Natal, Human Sciences Research Council, Perinatal Mental Health Project and Department of Health (South Africa), Makerere University and Ministry of Health (Uganda), BasicNeeds, Centre for Global Mental Health (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Kings Health Partners, UK) and the World Health Organization.
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