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    Launch of the Centre for Public Mental Health and inaugural Alan J. Flisher* Memorial Lecture. Click here for details

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    Recruiting is beginning for the first full cohort of the Social Aetiology of Mental Illness (SAMI) Training Program. Click here for details

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    Follow us on Twitter @ MGMentalHealth

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    The Perinatal Mental Health Project as part of the Mental Health and Poverty Project launched a new website and linked their recently produced short film Caring for Mothers onto the site. Click here for the film

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    The Movement loses Alan Flisher, a champion of global mental health find out more

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    Join in the conversation!
    The summaries of the first round of discussion about the Future of the Movement have been posted on the discussion board.
    Please read them here and let us know what you think!

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    The TAC's latest magazine is devoted to mental health Click here to read 

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    "NIMH commits to supporting global mental health" click here for more

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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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Nepal | E-news Article |Sept 11th, 2009 | www.myrepublica.com

 

Advocate of mental well-being....“From the time I was 10 years old, chronic headache disturbed my sleep, mood vitality, and concentration,” shares mental health researcher and activist Jagannath Lamichhane, 26, Click here to read more
   
  

Uk | E-news Article |September 2nd, 2009 | http://www.bbc.co.uk
 

MENTAL HEALTH : A GLOBAL CHALLENGE
The first Global Mental Health Summit is taking place this week in the Greek capital, Athens.
Pascale Harter covered the conference for the BBC

   
  

Nepal | Newspaper article | August 13th, 2009 | Nepal Times
 

The first press release........ In response to a growing concern about the vast unmet needs for care for people living with mental disorders around the world and the flagrant abuse of their human rights, the Movement for Global Mental Health was launched on October 10th, 2008. The Movement is a global network of individuals and institutions read more.........
   
  

Nepal | Newspaper article | August 27th, 2009 | Nepal Times
 

MEDIA KITS........Movement for Global Mental Health and the First Global Mental Health Summit Mental, Neurological and substance use disorders (MNS disorders), such as depression, psychosis, alcohol dependence, bipolar affective disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, intellectual disabilities, epilepsy, dementia and schizophrenia do not figure in global health policy. read more..........
   
  
 Nepal | E-News article | August 21st, 2009 | www.kantipuronline.com
  No state for mentally-ill : Expert  A mental health expert said here on Friday that the state had done precious little for mental health patients, whose number is on the rise due to spiralling violence.  read more........
   
  
Nepal | E-News article | 21st August | www.thehimalayantimes.com
  Nepali panelist in mental health summit : KATHMANDU: Jagannath Lamichhane, founder of the Nepal Mental Health Foundation, has been selected as a panellist to represent South Asia for the first Global Mental Health Summit in Athens. More than 500 people will be participating in the Summit slated for September 2.  read more............
   
  
Nepal | Photographs | August 21st, 2009 |
  Nepalease journalists from the mainstream National dailies and Television - discussing about the First Global Mental Health Summit in Kathmandu in a Press Dialogue organized by Nepal Mental Health Foundation.  view photographs
   
   


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