Children of Pakistan (CoP) Building a better future-Pakistani Bachay: Roshan Mustakbil ki Tameer-Pakistan’s first birth cohort-CoP study meeting at Health Services Academy Islamabad #PakistaniBachy Zafar Mirza John Wright @DeborahLawlor2 HDRFoundation Dr Usman Hamdani

Special Advisor to PM Dr Zafar Mirza Zafar Mirza, Parlimentry Secretary on Health Dr Nausheen Hamid, DG health Pakistan faculty; PhD scholars and MPH students at #CoP study meeting #PakistaniBachy- Pakistan’s first birth cohort. John Wright @DeborahLawlor2 HDRFoundation

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Cohort Profile: Perinatal depression and child socioemotional development ; the Bachpan cohort study from rural Pakistan #ChildrenofPakistan #PakistaniBachy #BachpanCohort John Wright @DeborahLawlor2 siham sikander Dr Usman Hamdani bmjopen.bmj.com/content/9/5/e0…

Cohort Profile: Perinatal depression and child socioemotional development ; the Bachpan cohort study from rural Pakistan siham sikander Dr Usman Hamdani Joanna Maselko Ashley Hagaman

The importance of adapting #MentalHealth assessments & interventions to local cultural & linguistic context. Our new paper ‘The integration of idioms of distress into mental health assessments and interventions: a systematic review’ #GlobalMentalHealth bit.ly/2LpOejq

42/ Yesterday hosted a very interesting meeting on harnessing IT to address mental health issues in Pakistan. Meeting was organized by the Human Development Research Foundation which is doing some amazing research and cutting-edge work on mental health challenges in Pk.

HDRFoundation thank you for sharing the opportunity Zafar Mirza . We are in this journey together and will be guided by your vision to create impact on ground !

Rolling out the carpet for Children of Pakistan - over 700 women recruited since pilot began in summer - what a fab team Born in Bradford @DeborahLawlor2 @dvh13 Prof Rosie McEachan 🇪🇺

How can we harness increasingly rich data to help increasingly poor communities Children of Pakistan Born in Bradford Iain Buchan

No health without mental health - one third of global burden of disease yet unacceptable apathy from governments. New Pakistan initiative aims to address that Simon Gilbody Children of Pakistan

141/ Mental health care boosted by the President of Pakistan. thelancet.com/journals/lance…

We adapted and validated Developmental Disorders-Children Disability Assessment Schedule – DD-CDAS for children with developmental disorders in Pakistan. doi.org/10.1017/gmh.20… Theresa S. Betancourt ScD, MA

DD-CDAS is a lay health worker-administered pragmatic measurement tool, can be used to answer real-world questions to scale-up of programmes for children with developmental disorders in low-resource settings. Dr Melissa Gladstone Dr. Zill-e-Huma

Every effort matters #moveformentalhealth - Let's invest, #WorldMentalHealthDay

Move For Mental Health-Let's Invest #WorldMentalHealthDay

#MentalHealth #worldmentalhealthday2020 #LetsInvest

Finding the active ingredients in approaches to youth mental health Dr Usman Hamdani presenting on how relaxation techniques work for youth mental health Wellcome Prof Miranda Wolpert Catherine Sebastian #GrandChallengesAnnualMeeting2020 #GCAM2020

Dr Usman Hamdani from Pakistan will be live at 8.45 pm for the #GrandChallengesAnnualMeeting2020 to present active ingredients in approaches to youth mental health #GCAM2020

Thank you Ministry of Planning and Development @KamyabJawanPK for providing me the opportunity to present the policy statement on #YouthMentalHealth in Pakistan and considering it for Priority Youth Action Agenda of Government of Pakistan ! Thank you Dr Roomi Aziz Dr Shabnum Sarfraz for your leadership!!