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About IAWMH | |
Established in 2001 to improve the mental health of women throughout the world, the International Association for Women's Mental Health is a Not for Profit, Non-Governmental Organization.
The mission of IAWMH is:
- To improve the mental health of women throughout the world.
- To expand the fund of knowledge about Women's Mental Health.
- To promote gender-sensitive and autonomy-enhancing mental health
services for women.
- To advance collaboration between Societies and Sections.
For more information: www.iawmh.org
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Click here to download
IAWMH Consensus Statement on Women's Mental Health and the WPA Statement on Interpersonal Violence Against Women
These have been approved by all national psychiatric associations (130+) which belong to WPA.
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We're looking for good ideas! Yours!
Please submit suggestions for future newsletter items, personal news, or even suggested topics for the next meeting.
Send them to info@iawmh.org | | |
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Welcome | |
Welcome to the first newsletter of our association.
We hope to have quarterly issues of our newsletter, to appraise all the members and interested groups of our association activities worldwide. The working groups /committees are planning work in their respective fields and the newsletter hopefully, will be a convenient way to inform their activities and progress.
Members are invited to send their news, views and brief articles, on the women's mental health issues. Comments or suggestions are most welcome.
Unaiza Niaz
Editor
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Are You Attending the WPA in Buenos Aires? | |
 DON'T MISS THESE IMPORTANT EVENTS!
MONDAY, September 19, 2011 - 13.30-14.30, Rio de la Plata Room
WPA Section on Women's Mental Health's Business Meeting
TUESDAY, September 20, 2011 - 10.45-12.15
Symposium - RS31 -
THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN PSYCHIATRIC PATIENTS
Chairperson: Donna Stewart (Canada)
RS31.1 - The Rights of Women Psychiatric Patients: A Review
Donna Stewart (Canada)
RS31.2 - The Declaration of Caracas, the Reform of Mental Health Services and the Rights of Women in Latin America
Marta B. Rondon (Peru)
RS31.3 - Rights Issues in Women in Pakistani Psychiatric Hospitals
Unaiza Niaz (Pakistan)
WEDNESDAY, September 21, 2011 - 09.00-10.30
Symposium - SS31 -
SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH ARE CRITICAL TO WOMEN'S MENTAL HEALTH (organized by the WPA Section on Women's Mental Health)
Chairpersons: Unaiza Niaz (Pakistan) and Elena Levin (Argentina)
SS31.1 - The Impact of Access to Education on Women's Mental Health
Marta B. Rondon (Peru)
SS31.2 - Violence Against Women and Mental Health
Donna Stewart (Canada)
SS31.3 - Poverty, a Major Social Determinant in Women's Mental Health
Unaiza Niaz (Pakistan)
WEDNESDAY, September 21, 2011 - 09.30
The Extraordinary and Ordinary General Assemblies of the World Psychiatric Association will be convened under the chairmanship of the WPA President in Buenos Aires at the Marriot Hotel (to be confirmed). |
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Save the Date -
5th World Congress on Women's Mental Health | |
 Save the Date and plan to attend!
5th World Congress on
Women's Mental Health
March 4-7, 2013 - Lima, Peru
Updates on abstract submission, program and registration will be available on www.iawmh.org.
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4th World Congress on Women's Mental Health - March 2011 in Madrid | |
Almost 850 professionals from 68 countries attended the 4th World Congress on Women's Mental Health in Madrid.
The following are some links to articles about the Congress.
IAWMH Press Release
Tryptophan, Tyrosine May Battle Early Postpartum Depression, By: MICHELE G. SULLIVAN, Clinical Psychiatry News Digital Network - 03/18/11 - FROM THE WORLD CONGRESS ON WOMEN'S MENTAL HEALTH - http://www.clinicalpsychiatrynews.com/news/adult-psychiatry/single-article/tryptophan-tyrosine-may-battle-early-postpartum-depression/1d287583c3.html
Treating Mood Disorders in Pregnancy - Not an Easy Decision, By: MICHELE G. SULLIVAN, Clinical Psychiatry News Digital Network - 03/21/11 - FROM THE WORLD CONGRESS ON WOMEN'S MENTAL HEALTH - http://www.clinicalpsychiatrynews.com/index.php?id=2407&cHash=071010&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=53279
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Upcoming Events |
4th International Congress of Medicine and Women's Mental Health
(IV Congreso Internacional de Medicina y Salud Mental del la Mujer)
12-14 April 2012 - Convention & Exposition Center, Medellin, Colombia
Presented by Universidad CES
Contact: comunicaciones@eventosperfectos.com.co
2012 NASPOG Annual Meeting
April 22-24, 2012
Renaissance Hotel, Providence, Rhode Island
www.naspog.org
International Biennial Congress of The Marce Society
October 3-5, 2012
Paris, France
www.marcesociety.org |
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IAWMH Leadership | |
President - Prof. Dr. med. Anita Riecher-Rossler- president@iawmh.org
Head of the Psychiatric University Outpatient Department, Psychiatric University Clinics, Basel, Switzerland
Immediate Past President - Susan G. Kornstein, MD
Professor of Psychiatry and Obstetrics/Gynecology; Executive Director, Institute for Women's Health; Executive Director, Mood Disorders Institute; Virginia Commonwealth University - Richmond, Virginia, USA
Vice President - Marta B. Rondon, MD
Vice Decana, Colegio Medico del Peru; Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia - Lima, Peru
Secretary - Unaiza Niaz, MD
The Psychiatric Clinic & Stress Research Centre, Pakistan
Treasurer - Teri Pearlstein, MD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior and Medicine Alpert Medical School of Brown University; Director, Women's Behavioral Medicine, Women's Medicine Collaborative, a Lifespan partner , Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Journal Editor - Meir Steiner, MD, PhD, FRCPC
Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences and Obstetrics & Gynecology, McMaster University; Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Toronto; Adjunct Scientist, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto; Founding Director, Women's Health Concerns Clinic; Founding Member, Brain-Body Institute, St. Joseph's Healthcare - Hamilton, Ontario, Canada |
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Regional Representatives to the Board | |
IAWMH strives to have regional representation from all geographic areas:
Anne Buist -
University of Melbourne, Austin Health/Northpark, Australia
Prabha S. Chandra, MD, FRCPsych -
National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, India
Silvia Lucia Gaviria, MD -
CES University, Medellin, Colombia
Jayashri Kulkarni, MBBS, MPM, PhD -
Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre, Australia
Josyan Madi-Skaff, MD -
Psychiatry Department, The Lebanese Hospital, Lebanon
Sara Murillo Antunez, MD -
Honduras
Inga Neumann, PhD -
Universityof Regensburg, Germany
Olayinka Omigbodun, MBBS, MPH, FWACP, FMCPsych -
University of Ibadan & Head, Department of Child & Adolescent, University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria
Eva Palova, MD -
Kosice, Slovak Republic |
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Cooperating Organizations & Representatives | |
EUFAMI (European Federation of Associations of Families of People with Mental Illness) - www.eufami.org
Sigrid Steffen, President, EUFAMI
International Marce Society -www.marcesociety.com
Nine Glangeaud-Freudenthal, Ph.D., President-Elect, Marce Society, INSERM, Villejuif, France
International Menopause Society - www.imsociety.org
David Sturdee, MD, President, International Menopause Society, United Kingdom
ISPOG (International Society of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynecology) - www.ispog.org
Prof. PhD Beate Wimmer-Puchinger, Executive Director for Women`s Health /City of Vienna, Austria
NASPOG (North American Society for Psychosocial Obstetrics and Gynecology) - www.naspog.org
Teri Pearlstein, MD, President, NASPOG, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
World Psychiatric Association - www.wpanet.org
Prof. Helen Herrman, Professor of Psychiatry , University of Melbourne, Orygen Youth Health Research Centre, Melbourne, Australia |
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Working Committees | |
Education:
Elena Berger
WFMH
Gemma Garcia-Pares
Head of the Psychiatric Hospitalization Area, Coporacio Pacc Tauli, Sabadell, Spain
Silvia Lucia Gaviria
Head of Department of Psychiatry, Universidad CES de Medellin, Colombia
Elena Levin
University Professor, APSA, Universidad Favaloro. Buenos Aires. Argentina
Unaiza Niaz
The Psychiatric Clinic & Stress Research Centre, Pakistan
Judith Usall
Parc Sanitari Sant Joan De Déu, Barcelona, Spain
Policy and Ethics:
Gisele Apter
EPS Erasme, France
Anne Buist
University of Melbourne, Austin Health/Northpark, Australia
Nine Glangeaud-Freudenthal
President-Elect, Marce Society, INSERM, Villejuif, France
Josyan Madi-Skaff
Psychiatry Department, The Lebanese Hospital, Lebanon
Unaiza Niaz
The Psychiatric Clinic & Stress Research Centre, Pakistan
Research and Scientific Program:
Anne Buist
University of Melbourne, Austin Health/Northpark, Australia
Marina Díaz-Marsá
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Monica Flores
Gemma Garcia-Pares
Head of the Psychiatric Hospitalization Area, Coporacio Pacc Tauli, Sabadell, Spain
Nine Glangeaud-Freudenthal
President-Elect, Marce Society, INSERM, Villejuif, France
Judith Usall
Parc Sanitari Sant Joan De Déu, Barcelona, Spain
Beate Wimmer-Puchinger
Executive Director for Women`s Health /City of Vienna, Austria |
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Contact us:
International Association for Women's Mental Health
c/o Debra Tucker Associates LLC
8213 Lakenheath Way
Potomac, Maryland 20854 USA
Phone - 1-301-983-6282
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