EDCMA

Description

Join us for the annual spring Edinburgh Global Mental Health day. This online and in-person event brings together University of Edinburgh students, alumni, staff, and external colleagues with an interest in the interdisciplinary field of global mental health.

The event will include:

Morning 9:30am - 12:30pm

• A key note talk by Professor Rochelle Burgess, UCL: ‘First Justice, then peace: Global Mental Health for a better future
• An interdisciplinary panel discussion: Is justice possible in an unequal world?

Lunch 12:30pm - 1:30pm

Afternoon: 1:30pm - 4:30pm

• Presentations of dissertation research from MSc global mental health and society alumni and PhD and ECR researchers
• Global Mental Health careers panelling featuring MSc alumni

If you are a GMH&S alumni or current PhD student or ECR in a related area and are interested in doing a short talk (4 to 6 minutes) based on current/previous global mental health research please fill this form in by 27 May 2025 - MS Form

This event is co-sponsored by the Edinburgh Centre for Medical Anthropology; Global Mental Health Collaborative and the MSc Global Mental Health and Society, Social Work subject area, SPS.

Please indicate your registration preferences:

• Morning online
• Morning in-person
• Lunch (in person)
• Afternoon online
• Afternoon in person
• Full day online
• Full Day in person

Online participants will be sent a Zoom link in advance of the event start. Please ensure you check your emails!

Our Speaker: 

Dr Rochelle Burgess

Rochelle is interested in the promotion of community approaches to health and mental health improvement globally. Her work explores how communities navigate and respond to the political economy of poor health, with a particular emphasis on community-led efforts to address the impacts of broader development issues such as poverty, gender, racialisation, systems of governance, and community mobilisation and activism. For the past decade she has focused largely on mental wellbeing and the experience of common mental disorders in contexts of adversity. She is qualitative social scientist, trained at the London School of Economics and Political sciences, and a leading voice in the emerging field of social interventions in Global Mental Health. She has led a range of projects that focus on the development and evaluation of community mental health interventions (in South Africa, Colombia, UK and Zimbabwe) and has contributed her methodological and mental health expertise to projects on community led responses to other health challenges, such as child health in Nigeria and Patient Centred outcomes for TB.

Rochelle is Professor of Global Mental Health and Social Justice and Deputy Director of the UCL Centre for Global Non-Communicable Diseases, at the Institute for Global Health at UCL. She is the founder and Director of UCL's Global Network on Mental Health and Child Marriage. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Public Health, Fellow of the Young Academy of Europe, member of the ESRC peer review college, UK Trauma Council, among other affiliations and advisory board memberships. She is an advisor to the WHO on mental health policy.