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CONFERENCES AND EVENTS

Psychiatry Conference Alerts
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The 15th World Congress of Psychiatry
Buenos Aires, Argentina
September 18-22, 2011

World Congress of the World Federation of Mental Health (WFMH)
Capetown, South Africa
September 17-21, 2011

2nd Global Summit on Mental Health Cape Town, South Africa October 17th, 2011


RESEARCH AND FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

Funding for International Mental Health Research Hubs in LAMIC
Applications for Collaborative Hubs for International Research in Mental Health in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (U19) have been published in the NIH guide.

Fogarty International Center - National Institutes of Health, A comprehensive compilation of international funding opportunities in biomedical and behavioral research
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NIH Partners with PEPFAR to Strengthen Medical Education in Africa Funding Opportunity

Fogarty International Research Collaboration Award


ARTICLES

Global Mental Health: A New Global Health Field Comes of Age
JAMA 303 (19): 1976-77
May 2010

The WHO World Mental Health Surveys: Global Perspectives on the Epidemiology of Mental Disorders
Am J Psychiatry 167:354-355
March 2010

Long-term mental health of Vietnamese refugees in the aftermath of trauma
The British Journal of Psychiatry 196: 122-125
2010

Mental Health and the Development Agenda in Sub-Saharan Africa
Psychiatr Serv 61:229-234
March 2010

Research Capacity for Mental Health in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Results of a Mapping Project
The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 198 (1): 82-83
January 2010

Public Library of Science
Medicine launched a series of reviews of the most feasible approaches to the
treatment of six mental, neurological, and substance use disorders that impose significant disease burdens in low and middle-income countries.