Professor Ricardo Araya, Lead of the Global Mental Health Research Group and Director of the Centre for Global Mental Health, King’s College London

Global mental health: how to fill in the gap

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Professor Araya will present some basic information on global mental health, with a focus on low-and-middle income countries. The huge treatment gap and the reasons leading to this situation will be highlighted. Some successful innovative solutions that have been used in an attempt to fill in this gap will be presented and. Among these the role of task-shifting in so far as transferring the healthcare of people with mental health problems to non-medical doctors and the role technology can play assisting this strategy. He will attempt to draw some lessons from this experience that can be applied to more developed countries.