Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University
0730-0800 BREAKFAST & REGISTRATION
0800-0930 Convening Center - Opening Session Day II
0800-0810
Welcome Remarks:
- Dean Lynn Goldman, Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University.
- Tim Evans, Senior Director, Health, Nutrition and Population Global Practice, The World Bank Group
- Shekhar Saxena, Director, Mental Health and Substance Abuse Department, WHO.
0810-0825
Virtual Reality documentary: "Francis: Global Faces of Mental Health" (7 minute Virtual Reality Film)
- Prof. Arthur Kleinman, Harvard University
- Zoe Adams, Producer
0825-0910
Keynote Presentation:
- Matthew McGuire, U.S. Executive Director for the World Bank Group
- Patrick Kennedy, former member of U.S. House of Representatives, lead sponsor of the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of the United States
- Commentary: How to achieve mental health parity globally? Bernice Dahn, Minister of Health of Liberia, and Jagannath Lamichhane, Principal Coordinator, Movement for Global Mental Health, Nepal.
- Take Away Messages: Melanie Walker, Senior Advisor to the President of the WBG.
0900-0930
Book signing by Congressman Patrick Kennedy of his book “A Common Struggle. A Personal Journey Through the Past and Future of Mental Illness and Addiction,” a New York Times bestseller.
0930-1100 PLENARY PANEL DISCUSSION Mental Health in the Global Development Agenda: Challenges and Options
- Vikram Patel, co-founder, Sangath and co-director of the Centre for Global Mental Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
- Lawrence O. Gostin, University Professor, O'Neill Chair in Global Health Law, Georgetown University
- Shekhar Saxena, Director, Mental Health and Substance Abuse Dep.,
- Kay Redfield Jamison, Dalio Family Professor in Mood Disorders and Professor of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
- Oleg Kucheryavenko, Former Head of Health Policy and Influencing, ECSN Program, Oxfam and HNP Consultant, World Bank
- Murali Doraiswamy, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University, and Chair, World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council for Brain Research
- Aryeh Neier, President Emeritus, Open Society Foundation
- Akmal Taher, Special Adviser, Ministry of Health of Indonesia: The Role of Government in Providing Mental Health Services
- Francesca Colombo, Head, OECD Health Division, Mental Health in the OECD
- Moderator: Philip Campbell, Editor in Chief, Nature
- Rapporteur: Daniel Vigo, Harvard University
1100-1300 CONVENING CENTER
*PARALLEL PANEL DISCUSSION 1: Innovations in Mental Health Promotion, Protection, Care and Funding
- Eliot Sorel, Senior Scholar in the Office of Clinical Practice Innovations, Clinical Professor, Department of Global Health, Health Policy & Management, and Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, George Washington University
- Kesetebirhan Admasu, Minister of Health of Ethiopia
- Melvyn Freeman, Manager NCD Cluster, National Department of Health, South Africa
- Chhum Vannarith, Under Secretariat of State, Ministry of Health of Cambodia: Scaling up Mental Health at the Community Level in Ethiopia, South Africa and Cambodia
- Juan Pablo Uribe, Director General, Foundation Santa Fe, Bogota, Colombia
- Somsak Chunharas, Vice President, National Health Foundation, Thailand
- Yohei Sasakawa, Chairman, Nippon Foundation, WHO Ambassador for Leprosy Elimination
- Victoria Matiso, Africa Mental Health Foundation
- Stan Kutcher, Teenmentalhealth.org
- Julian Eaton, Lecturer, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, CBM International
- Moderator: Karlee Silver, VP Programs, Grand Challenges, Canada
- Rapporteur: Margarita Puerto Gomez, World Bank Group
1100-1300 AUDITORIUM
*PARALLEL PANEL DISCUSSION 2: Addressing the mental health needs of vulnerable populations across sectors
- Akiko Ito, Chief, Secretariat for the UN Convention On the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- Florence Baingana, Makerere University School of Public Health
- Rodrigo Guerrero, Mayor of Cali, Colombia
- Eric Windeler, Founder & Executive Director, Jack.org
- Prakash Goossens, International Advocate, Brothers of Charity (Francarita International)
- Kathryn Goetzke, Founder and Interim Executive Director, iFred
- Thomas H. Bornemann, Director, Mental Health Program, The Carter Center
- Elizabeth Hoff, WHO Representative in Syria
- Yoshiharu Kim, Director, Japan National Institute of Mental Health
- Ryotaro Oda, JICA
- Moderator: Saroj Kumar Jha, Senior Director, WBG Fragility, Conflict and Violence CCS Group
- Rapporteur: Alys M. Willman, World Bank Group
1300-1330 LUNCH - RECEPTION AREA
- Second showing of virtual documentary documentary: "Global Faces of Mental Health"
- Documentary “Global Mental Health Challenges” (6 minutes), produced by Harvard Global Mental Health Coalition
1330-1500 CONVENING CENTER
*PARALLEL PANEL DISCUSSION 3: Wellness and Mental Health in the Workplace
- Kelly O’Brien, President & Founder, Ideaction Corps and Director, The Kennedy Forum Illinois
- Arnaud Bernaert, World Economic Forum
- Norito Kawakami, Head, School of Public Health, University of Tokyo
- Derek Yach, Executive Director, Vitality Health
- Paul Litchfield, British Telecom, Chief Medical Officer / Director Wellbeing, Inclusion, Safety & Health, and Chair of the What Works Centre for Wellbeing
- Brian Davey, Director, WBG Health Services Department
- Bill Wilkerson, Executive Chairman, Mental Health International
- Virginia Carcedo, Fundacion ONCE, General Director FSC Inserta, Spain
- Moderator: Tessie San Martin, President and CEO, Plan International USA
- Rapporteur: Beverly Pringle, US National Institute of Mental Health
1330-1500 AUDITORIUM
*PARALLEL PANEL DISCUSSION 4: Engaging Communities, Engaging Governments: Taking Action for Mental Health
- Judy Kuriansky, Columbia University
- Gabriel Ivbijaro, President, World Federation for Mental Health
- Rafael Alvarez Espinoza, Mayor, Carabayllo Municipal District, Peru
- Sarah Harrison, Technical Advisor, Reference Centre for Psychosocial Support, Coordinator, Coordinator-IASC MHPSS Reference Group, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
- Kaz de Jong, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
- Chris Underhill, Founder & President, Basic Needs, Senior Ashoka Fellow | Skoll Foundation Social Entrepreneur | Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur
- Sean Mayberry, Founder & Executive Director, StrongMindsDealing with Mental Health Challenges in Africa
- Elizabeth Carll, Elizabeth Carll, UN Representative, International Council of Women & Focal Point for Health/Mental Health and Non-Communicable Diseases, New York
- Inka Weissbecker, Global Mental Health and Psychosocial Advisor, International Medical Corps: Call to Action “Mental Health for Sustainable Development
- Moderator: Christine Sow, Executive Director, Global Health Council
- Rapporteur: Alison Brunier, WHO
1500-1630 CONVENING CENTER
* PARALLEL PANEL DISCUSSION 5: Leveraging new Technologies for Improving Access to Care and Designing New Interventions
- Niraj Singh, Executive VP, International Public Sector, Vodafone Global Enterprise
- Jyoti Mishra, Assistant Professor, Neurology, Psychiatry & Global Health Sciences, University of California San Francisco
- Anmol Madan, CEO, Founder of Ginger.io
- A. Krishnakumar, Leader Emerging Businesses, Royal Philipps
- Indrajit Banerjee, Director, Knowledge Societies Division, Communication and Information Sector, UNESCO
- Raymond W. Lam, Executive Director of the APEC Digital Hub: Connecting APEC countries to advance the mental health agenda
- Thomas Lethenborg, Monsenso
- Raymond W. Lam, Executive Director of the APEC Digital Hub
- Moderator: Ambassador Luis Gallegos, Ecuador, and Chair of the Board of Directors of G3ICT
- Rapporteur: Joshua Chauvin, University of Oxford
1500-1630 CONVENING CENTER
*PARALLEL PANEL DISCUSSION 6: The Science of Implementation: Measuring Results for Policy Formulation, Program Design, Scaling Up Care, Monitoring and Evaluating Impact
- Gustavo Roman, Jack S. Blanton Distinguished Endowed Chair, Director, National Center, Methodist Neurological Institute, USA
- Glenda Wrenn, Director, Division of Behavioral Health at the Satcher Health Leadership Institute at Morehouse School of Medicine: Quality of mental health care and patient outcomes measurement
- Robert Heinssen, Director, Division of Services and Intervention Research, U.S. National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
- Jing Wu, and Huang Yueqin, China CDC
- Giuseppe Raviola, Partners in Health
- Soumya Swaminathan, Secretary to the Gov. of India/Director-General, Indian Council of Medical Research
- Alain Beaudet, President of Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) & Chair of Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (GACD)
- Moderator: Pamela Collins, Director, Office for Research on Disparities & Global Mental Health/ Director, Office of Rural Mental Health Research, US National Institute of Mental Health/NIH
- Rapporteur: Devora Kestel, PAHO/WHO
COFFEE WILL BE SERVED IN RECEPTION AREA THROUGHOUT THE EVENT
1630-1800 CONVENING CENTER
*PLENARY PANEL DISCUSSION: Financing for Development Action Agenda and Private Sector Asset Development: How to support scaling mental health innovations across sectors?
- Jorge Familiar, WBG LAC Regional Vice President/or Augusto de la Torre, Chief Economist, WBG Lac Region
- Michael Myers, Rockefeller Foundation: A perspective from the Rockefeller Foundation
- Jeremias Paul, Under Secretary of Finance of the Philippines
- Jeanette Vega, CEO, Chile National Health Insurance Fund
- Nat Otoo, CEO, Ghana National Health Insurance Authority
- Amanda Glassman, Center for Global Development
- Lourdes Marquez de la Calleja, Head, Social Relations and Strategic Planning, Foundacion ONCE, Spain
- Jodi Butts, RISE Asset Development, Canada
- Moderator: Peter Singer, CEO Grand Challenges
- Rapporteur: Dan Chisholm, WHO
1800-1830 CLOSING
Mainstreaming Mental Health in the International Development Agenda
Commentary
- Norman Ornstein, author, contributing editor and columnist for National Journal and The Atlantic, and Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C.: The Political Economy of Mental Health. How to Move This Agenda Forward?
- Amb. Olawale I. Maiyegun, Director, Social, Affairs, African Union Commission
- Thea Emmerling, Minister Counselor and Head of the Health, Food Safety, and Consumer Affairs Section in the Delegation of the European Union to the United States
The Way Forward
- International Perspective: Shekhar Saxena, WHO, Timothy Evans, WBG, Prof. Arthur Kleinman on behalf of the organizing Working Group.
- Moderator: Maureen M. Goodenow, Senior Advisor and Acting Director Office of Research and Science, Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator and Health Diplomacy, U.S. Department of State.
The organizers of the event also appreciate all the support provided by the Office of the United States Executive Director for the World Bank Group.
Agenda subject to change ahead of event. Please check back for updates.
Last Updated: Apr 11, 2016
