Mental Health Leadership Course in India

January 26, 2010 by JP Rajendran   Comments (0)

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Forwarded message from Public health foundation

Dear All,

Sangath, Goa is offering a two week course titled 'Leadership in Mental Health', in collaboration with London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine ,UK,  Schizophrenia Research Foundation (SCARF) Chennai , India, Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) and Centre for International Mental Health, University of Melbourne , Australia .
 
This course has been designed to equip participants in the methods to develop and scale up interventions for people with mental disorders in communities, based on a population model (i.e. to achieve maximum coverage in an administrative unit such as a district). 
  
The course is designed to build capacity to meet the goals of the Movement for Global Mental Health (www.globalmentalhealth.org) and the Lancet series on global mental health 2007. 
  
For the last two years participants of this course consisted of mental health professionals, general physicians, policy makers, representatives of funding agencies, humanitarian agency workers, NGO staff, epidemiologists, anthropologists and members of the user community. 
  
The course is structured in three parts, 
and participants will expect to learn the following: 
Part 1: Why scale up coverage of effective and affordable care for mental disorders? 
Part 2: How to scale up coverage for specific mental disorders? 
Part 3: the leadership skills for scaling up 
 
The course is from 22nd November 2010 to 3rd December 2010 in Goa, India.
It is not possible for me to attach the brochure on e-group, but this can be accessed on websitehttp://www.sangath.com 

with warm regards,
Rahul R. Shidhaye
M.D.(Psy) M.H.S.(Mental Health)
Faculty
Public Health Foundation of India
Mobile: 09848520340