Dear Colleagues,

We hope everyone is safe and well as we enter the second year of the pandemic.

Some of you attended the virtual presentations of the World Congress during march 2021 and we hope you found it useful .Of course nothing will replace the whole atmosphere of a "physical " congress with the side discussions and the very useful exchanges ...

We also missed hosting the WPA Epidemiology and Public Health meeting in Morocco which we had planned with Dr Driss Moussaoui and which promised a bouquet of scientific and cultural flavors ... Hopefully we will be able to host the meeting during Fall 2022.

Until our regular meetings can resume, and to keep our section's exchanges alive, Katherine Keyes from Columbia University, USA, has kindly volunteered to organize a virtual speaker series for 2021, highlighting research across the world that tackles important and timely issues in psychiatric epidemiology. This is free of charge .

The lecture series schedule is below, with times in GMT, so please check what time that is locally for you.

RSVP with the links below, and we will follow up with a zoom link. In addition all lectures will be recorded for those who cannot attend live.

 
Emerging Determinants of Mental Health: Epidemics and Collective Actions
Michael Y. Ni
, MD, The University of Hong Kong
25 October 2021 - 14:00 GMT

REGISTER HERE
 
Improving Perinatal Mental Health in Nigeria; development of a task-shared integrated programme for perinatal depression in primary care
Bibilola D. Oladeji, MBBS, MSc, University of Ibadan
29 November 2021 - 14:00 GMT

REGISTER HERE
 
The Beirut Blast: A Longitudinal Study
Elie Karam, MD, St George Hospital University Medical Center, IDRAAC
24 January 2022 - 14:00 GMT

REGISTER HERE
 

Please let us know if you have any questions or queries. Wishing you all the best for safety and health to you and your families,

Elie G. Karam, M.D.
Chairman of the WPA Epidemiology and Public Health Section
Head Institute for Development, Research, Advocacy & Applied Care (IDRAAC)
Medical Institute for Neuropsychological Disorders (MIND)
Professor Dept. of Psychiatry & Clinical Psychology
St. George Hospital University Medical Center
University of Balamand, Faculty of Medicine
Beirut, Lebanon
www.idraac.org
www.mindclinics.org