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    Gurus of Mental Health click here for more

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    Grand Challenge on Global Mental Health announced! find out more

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    PLoS Medicine launched a new series of Reviews Click here for more

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    The Lancet announces a new series on Global Mental Health in partnership with the Movement - have your say!

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    Mental health : a global challenge
    The first Global Mental Health Summit took place in the greek capital, Athens. Click here for the link.

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    Disability Rights Fund Releases Second 2009 Request for Proposals, Extending Another Year of Grantmaking to Existing Target Countries and Opening Grantmaking to the Pacific Click here for details

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    "On World Human Rights Day (December 10th), the Lancet has published an article describing health systems and the right to health in 194 countries click here to read the articlehttp:// www.facebook.com/ group.php? gid= 44154737699

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    A key finding of the report is that people with mental illnesses are frequently neglected and discriminated against. Of 98 countries for which data were available, almost half allocated 2% or less of their national budget to mental health."

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    A new Facebook Group for the Movement is now set up; you can join up at: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=44154737699

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    You can submit information and news by clicking here news@globalmentalhealth.org

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The Global Mental Health Summit

| Issues for disussion | The Summit in the media  |

 | Images of the Summit | Recommendations for the future |

 
   

The Movement for Global Mental Health hosted the first Global Mental Health Summit on September 2nd, 2009 in Athens. This Summit aimed to bring together members of the Movement to share experiences and plan for the future. The Summit was hosted as a separate event just before the Biennial Congress of the World Federation for Mental Health (see http://www.wmhc2009.com/ static/ index.html ).

 

The GMH Summit was supported by the Lancet, The Wellcome Trust, the Global Initiative on Psychiatry and the MacArthur Foundation.

 

Members were invited to propose topics and speakers (including themselves) and format meant that there were keynote speakers for each session and several short presentations. There was active involvement of all stakeholder groups, in particular users from low-resource settings

 

Thanks to the Wellcome Trust, we were able to support the travel of members from low and middle income countries. Sadly, some of our travel fellows could not get visas in time, but several did participate in the summit

   

Reports from each of these sessions are available below.

 

 
   

| Session 1 : scaling up services | Session 2 : human rights |

| Session 3 : strategies for the future |


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