Global Mental Health Day Programme - MORNING SESSION - IN PERSON

Join us for the annual spring Edinburgh Global Mental Health day. This online and in-person event brings together University of Edinburgh students, alumni, staff, and external colleagues with an interest in the interdisciplinary field of global mental health.

This in-person event will include:

Morning (9.30 am to 12.30 pm):

Keynote & abstract: Understanding The Landscape of Psychological, Psychosocial and Social Interventions For Anxiety, Depression & Psychosis: A Pipeline Analysis - Prof Alastair Ager and Prof Karin Diaconu

This study was commissioned by Wellcome to inform their future
research investment strategy. Drawing on a set of methods, including (1) a
rapid review of systematic reviews, (2) global surveys, and (3) stakeholder
consultations, diverse interventions for anxiety, depression and psychosis were mapped and assessed using key criteria: clinical evidence, relevance to people with lived experience, contextual and cultural adaptability, promise of scalability, and contribution to social justice and equity, diversity and inclusion. From an initial long list, 20 interventions were selected for in-depth analysis through focused evidence reviews and stakeholder interviews & consultations. Evidence was synthesised and discussed in relation to an intervention development pipeline which describes how interventions evolve from ideation to scaling and full adoption globally. 

This presentation homes in on three major issues.

1) The analysis indicates significant variation in the depth and rigour of evidence across diverse types of interventions, with notable gaps focused on social interventions, services in low-resource settings and older populations.  We discuss the implications of this for addressing the global mental health treatment gap.

2) We highlight the diverse recurrent barriers and facilitators that affect how interventions progress from ideation onwards towards adoption. We discuss how such a pipeline analysis can inform strategies to accelerate scaling and adoption.

3) The analysis identified a number of interventions – psychological, psychosocial and social – for which there was a strong case for research and/or practice investment to facilitate effective provision at significantly greater scale. We present examples of these interventions, linking this to the prior considerations of evidence-base and pipeline parameters.

11.00-11.30 Tea/coffe break

11.30 - 12.30 Interdisciplinary panel discussion with Peter Yaro (Executive Director, Basic Needs Ghana), Victoria Mutiso (Director of Research, Africa Institute of Mental & Brain Health, Kenya) & Yodit Tesfayee (Mental Health Service Users Association, Ethiopia).

Lunch: 12.30 – 1.30 pm

This event is co-sponsored by the Edinburgh Centre for Medical Anthropology; Global Mental Health Collaborative and the MSc Global Mental Health and Society, Social Work subject area, SPS.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Violet Laidlaw Room, Crystal Macmillan Building, 15a George Square, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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