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SHARE is one of the 5 Collaborative Hubs for International Research on Mental Health funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) for 5 years. It has 18 partner institutions in South Asia, and IRD is the Sri Lankan partner.

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Senior Management Group Meetings

Third annual grantee meeting of the Collaborative Hubs for International Research on Mental Health was held in India on 22nd to 24th September 2014.

 

IRD was represented by Prof Athula Sumathipala (2nd row 6th from the right)

2nd annual SHARE Senior Management Group (SMG) meeting from was held in Colombo, Sri Lanka

The 2nd annual SHARE SMG meetings and related events were held from 25th to 27th July 2013 in Colombo, Sri Lanka

Venue – Grand Oriental Hotel, Colombo

A closed meeting of the SMG was held on the 25th and 26th July , and a public event was held during the evening of the 26th with Hon. Lalith Dissanayake, Deputy Minister of Health, gracing the occasion as the chief guest. Prof. Vikram Patel delivered the keynote address titled ‘From science to action-what we all can do to beat depression’. A short report of the findings of the first-ever National Mental Health Survey conducted by the Institute for Research & Development, commissioned by the Ministry of Health was also presented at the event, by Dr Athula Sumathipala, Director, IRD.

On 27th July a training workshop for health professionals, stake holders and policy makers was held on the theme of the ‘Thinking Healthy Program’ (THP). THP is a psychological intervention for the treatment of perinatal depression –developed in Pakistan and evaluated through one of the largest randomised controlled trials for a psychosocial intervention in a low-income country. THP employed simplified techniques of cognitive-behavioural therapy and trained community health workers to deliver the intervention. The results, published in the Lancet (2008) provide strong evidence for the effectiveness of task-shifting strategies to reduce the global burden of mental disorder. Prof. Atif Rahman from the University of Liverpool, who developed the program, and his team from the Human Development Research Foundation, Pakistan, conducted the half-day workshop.

2nd SHARE Senior Management Group Meeting event photos.

Mental health awareness public event photos.

Thinking Healthy Program Workshop photos.

1st annual SHARE Senior Management Group (SMG) meeting.

The 1st annual SHARE SMG meeting was held in India at the Hotel Golden Tulips, Chattarpur Road, Delhi.


IRD was represented by Dr Nihal Abeysingha (3rd in the left in the back raw standing)