Promoting Integration of Health and Mental Health
Research, Education, Treatments and Services, Advocacy, Policy

Eliot Sorel and Tsutomu Sakuta Chairmen, Scientific Committee

1. Research

Epidemiology and Social Psychiatry; The Social Determinants of Health; Mental Illness : The Burden of Disease, Nationally and Globally; Global Disasters and Complex Emergencies; The Neurosciences, the Human Genome and Social Psychiatry; Family, Culture and Psychobiology; Protective and Preventive Factors in Health and Illness; Familial Violence; Risk and Protective Factors; Quality Criteria in Health and Mental Health; Mental Health and Changing Social Norms and Standards; Coercive Measures in Psychiatry; Gender and Mental Health; Developing Community Based, Comprehensive Health Systems : Learning from Research Evidence.

2. Education

Social Psychiatry Education and Training; Education and Prevention in Health and Mental Health; Health Promotion and Protection; Educating the Public and Policy Makers about Health and Mental Health; the Role of the Media; Mental Health and the Community; Integrating primary care, mental health and public health in graduate training.

3. Treatments/Services

Social Psychiatry in Africa, Asia, Australia, the Americas, and Europe; Information Technology and Integrated Therapies; Mental Health Services for Culturally Diverse Population; Alternative Medicine and Native Healing Practices; Social and Community Psychiatric Services : Best Practices; Evidence Based Social and Community Psychiatric Services; Developing an Integrated Continuum of Health Care : Lessons Learned, Best Practices; Integrating Psychotherapy, Social therapies and Psychopharmacology; Trauma and Healing : African, Southeast European, and Asian Experiences; The Electronic Medical Record : Asset or Liability in Mental Health Services?; Leadership for mental health systems in different countries.

4. Advocacy

Developing and Implementing Effective Advocacy Organizations : Global Experiences; The Role of NGOs and Civil Society in Health Care Contracts at Local, National and Global Levels; Informed Consent in Cultural Contexts; Human Rights of Mental Patients, Stigmatization and Discrimination in Psychiatry; Access to Care.

5. Policy

Health, Mental Health Policy and the Global Burden of Disease; Parity and Nondiscrimination for Mental Health and Illness in National Health Care Policies; Best Practices; Assuring and Rewarding Quality in Health Care Delivery; Public/Private Partnerships in Modernizing Health Care Systems; The Helsinki Summit on Mental Health : A Model Worth Emulating ?

6. Special Topics

Global Climate Change and Health; A Basic Health Care Package for all Citizens; How to Diminish Shame, Stigma and Discrimination regarding Mental Illness; Equity in Health Care Systems; HIV/AIDS, Depression and Psychosis; Depression and Cardiovascular Diseases; Child Soldiers : Health and Mental Health Consequences.

N.B. The scientific program will be developed to reflect the proposed topics across the life cycle.