Attending a momentous occasion today on the launch of the Sindh Mental Health Policy 2023-2030 led by Pakistan Institute of Living and Learning (PILL) Institute of Living and Learning and supported by the Govt of Sindh Health Dept.

With the PIECESResearch RCT concluded, our project moves towards scale-up. I’m proud to share that we had our 1st DIALOG+ scale up training with motivated clinicians, social workers & nurses at Karwan-e-Hayat (KeH) working together to make psychiatric care more person-centred in facilities

The Small Scale Research Grant is a programme offered by PIECEs to develop international research skills for early career researchers in India and Pakistan. Read our blog post about the capacity building week delivered by partner IRD Global in Karachi.
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The drafting team of the Mental Health Ordinance for Pakistan, ~23 years later.

With Drs Richard Gater & Khalid Saeed WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean

Also part of the Small Scale Research Grants initiative, we had posters displayed by Mehwish Dawood IRD Global and Fatima Umer from LSS Office who are piloting interventions for vulnerable populations affected by climate crises & prison populations PIECESResearch IRD Global

Joining us from KPK, Aftab Khan from NIH shared findings from his innovative Small Scale Research Grant on a critical public health issue - building preparedness through community-based volunteers for #suicidemitigation among youth in remote Chitral PIECESResearch IRD Global

This week on Small Scale Research Grants for mental health - we heard from @kainatkhurshid from IRD Global on her grant to develop an evaluation framework for performance-based arts interventions for people with psychosis PIECESResearch #SSRG #Researchworkshop People's Palace Projects

This week we’re celebrating innovation in Small Scale Research Grants for mental health! #SSRG awardee Ameer Bux from Pakistan Institute of Living and Learning (PILL) shares progress on his project to use task shifting with GPs, teachers & faith healers to detect #FirstEpisodePsychosis . PIECESResearch IRD Global

<557> Moulana Tariq Jamil’s son Asim Jamil’s tragic suicide due to depressive illness has prompted me to write this op-ed in DawnNews today. May Allah bless his soul. Depression is actually very common in Pakistan and there is so much silent suffering, ignorance and…

Thanks to Savaira for organising this incredible symposium to showcase the work being done by IRD Global, Indus Hospital and SINA to integrate mental health into primary care in Pakistan 🙌🏼

Can't believe it's been 10 years! A decade of dedicated knowledge exchange and inclusive learning opportunities for all in GMH - looking forward to seeing what's next for MHIN 🙌

As part of our CEI activities , SCARF (India) and Training Sideways engaged with 60 people of an IT company in Chennai to discuss mental health literacy and psychosis using participatory theatre techniques! Social Psychiatry IRD Global NIHR Global Health Wolfson Institute of Population Health People's Palace Projects

Productive small scale research presentation today with Fatiman Farooqui, talking about the project delivered within the Legal Aid Office in PK: Improving the mental wellbeing of women prisoners through group art therapy, in Central Prison Karachi. IRD Global NIHR Global Health

Small scale research projects are up and running! Here is the ADEPT team in action in meetings with the Unit for Youth Resilience at Queen Mary University of London and with Mr. Tom Orrock, the deputy director of the Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission in the USA.

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‘Love, Patience and Kindness: Working in Different Ways with Psychosis’ Conference, which will take place on Tuesday 12 September 2023 at 9:30-16:00 at the MShed, Wapping Rd, Bristol, BS1 4RN.

Registration link rb.gy/zl57g

Do you know a post-doc with the organisational skills and people skills to coordinate an ambitious, multi-faceted, multi-country research programme on psychosis? Please send them our way!

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So excited to be able to take our mental health training to colleagues in IRD Philippines & IRD Bangladesh. This is due to efforts for scaling up mental health integration across the many infectious and non-communicable disease programs being implemented across sites IRD Global

💬 The mental health conversation has come such a long way in recent years.

However, there is still a large amount of misunderstanding surrounding mental illnesses such as schizophrenia and bipolar.

We can't keep being left behind.
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Community Engagement - Read Isaac Indras experience as a participant of the PIECEs theatre group, and why he believes the arts can connect people with mental illness in unexpected ways. Social Psychiatry Wolfson Institute of Population Health IRD Global NIHR Global Health People's Palace Projects
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