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Updated: Sun, 10/06/2024 - 10:30

From Saturday, Oct. 5 through Monday, Oct. 7, the Downtown and Macdonald Campuses will be open only to 91ε students, employees and essential visitors. Many classes will be held online. Remote work required where possible. See Campus Public Safety website for details.


Du samedi 5 octobre au lundi 7 octobre, le campus du centre-ville et le campus Macdonald ne seront accessibles qu’aux étudiants et aux membres du personnel de l’Université 91ε, ainsi qu’aux visiteurs essentiels. De nombreux cours auront lieu en ligne. Le personnel devra travailler à distance, si possible. Voir le site Web de la Direction de la protection et de la prévention pour plus de détails.

The 91ε Global Mental Health webinar series provides critical, cultural, and practical perspectives on the global initiative to address mental health needs, especially in low- and middle-income countries. The webinar series aims to raise awareness of the broad disparities that exist in global mental health around the world; exchange recent social, cultural and critical research, focusing on policy and practice implications across geographical locations as well as language/cultural groups; increase capacity of practitioners to more effectively address the mental health needs of diverse populations; and provide learning opportunities for students and scholars worldwide. These multilingual online events will create spaces for interdisciplinary dialogue and facilitate international cross-fertilization.

Webinar 1:

Prof. Laurence Kirmayer (91ε)

Co-constructing knowledge in Global Mental Health

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Webinar 2:

Prof. Cecile Rousseau (91ε)

Violent radicalization: prevention and intervention dilemmas

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Webinar 3:

Prof. Leslie Swartz (Stellenbosch University)

Who Counts as a Person?Disability, Mental Health and the Violence of Concealment

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Webinar 4:

Père Eddy Eustache(Zanmi Lasante)/Prof. Anne E. Becker (Harvard Medical School)

Expanding Youth Access to Mental Health Care:Lessons from a School-Based Study in Haiti

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Webinar 5:

Dr. Peter Ventevogel(United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees)

Refugee Mental Health and MentalHealth in Humanitarian Emergencies

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Webinar 6:

Dr. Clare Pain(University of Toronto)/Dr. Benyam Worku Dubale(Addis Ababa University)

Toronto Addis Ababa Academic Collaboration: Stumbling into a successful partnership!

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Webinar 7:

Dr. Ruth Verhey(The Friendship Bench, Zimbabwe)

The Friendship Bench: A community-based mental health innovation

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Webinar 8:

Dr. Janice Cooper (The Carter Center)

Building Back Better: Leveraging Post-Conflict and Disaster Situations to Develop and Scale Public Mental Health in Liberia

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Webinar 9:

Dr. Rochelle Burgess (University College London)

“Juntas Podemos”: A pilot study of participatory action learning cycles for improved well-being amonginternally displaced persons in Colombia

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Webinar 10:

Dr. China Mills (City, University of London)

Contingent universality and the making of global guidelines for mental health

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