Committees

For individual biosketches click on name if underlined

CHAIR - Unaiza Niaz - The Psychiatric Clinic & Stress Research Centre, Pakistan - email: drunaiza@gmail.com

Elena Berger - WFMH

Silvia Lucia Gaviria - Head of Department of Psychiatry, Universidad CES de Medellin, Colombia

Elena Levin, - University Professor, APSA, Universidad Favaloro. Buenos Aires. Argentina

Judith Usall - Parc Sanitari Sant Joan De Deu, Barcelona, Spain

Donna Stewart - University of Toronto, Canada

EDUCATION COMMITTEE AIMS:

1- Mainstreaming of WMH issues, as part of medical training is a rather important.
Promotion of WMH education at the undergraduate and post- graduate level at the Medical and Nursing Schools on women’s mental health issues, besides the primary care physicians, is the foremost aim of this group.

2- Preparation of educational slides on topics as the social, economic, ethical, legal,
cultural, psychological and biological factors, effecting  Women's Mental Health. These slides will be available on the website.

3- Writing review articles, and publication  in journals and website, on the following
topics:

• Women's roles in marriage, family and society, and the effects on mental health.
• The causes, effects and elimination of domestic violence and abuse of women.
• The causes, treatment and prevention of mental diseases or disorders that are
  specific, more prevalent, more severe or have different risk factors or
  outcomes in women.
• Gender-specific effects of treatment.
• Basic sciences pertinent to gender difference and female biology.

4- Promote the use of the informatics tools to promote mental health in women

5- Development of online courses for Continuous Medical Education in different
aspects of gender and psychiatry  (short courses and using the experience
of the IAWMHE members)

6- Development of Guidelines or annex to the existing Guidelines with gender
perspective.

CO-CHAIRS:

Gisele Apter - EPS Erasme, France - email: gisgisdanap@aol.com

and

Josyan Madi-Skaff - Psychiatry Department, The Lebanese Hospital, Lebanon - email: josyan.madiskaff@gmail.com

Anne Buist - University of Melbourne, Austin Health/Northpark, Australia

RESEARCH AND SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM:

CHAIR - Judith Usall - Parc Sanitari Sant Joan De Déu, Barcelona, Spain - email: jusall@pssjd.org

Anne Buist- University of Melbourne, Austin Health/Northpark, Australia

Marina Díaz-Marsá - Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

Monica Flores - International Institute of Perinatology, Mexico City, Mexico

Gemma Garcia-Pares  - Head of the Psychiatric Hospitalization Area, Coporacio Pacc Tauli, Sabadell, Spain

Nine Glangeaud-Freudenthal - President-Elect, Marce Society, INSERM, Villejuif, France

Jayashri Kulkarni - Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre, Australia

Beate Wimmer-Puchinger - Executive Director for Women`s Health /City of Vienna, Austria

RESEARCH AND SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM COMMITTEE AIMS:

1 - Promote research in the area of women and mental health and facilitate its dissemination, both through conferences and publications in psychiatric and other journals (subject-specific and general)

2 - Create multicentric and international groups of research amongst members of the IAWMH

3 - Think of different strategies to encourage the participation of more women in the area of mental health research

4 - Main domains of research to be promoted:

1. The social, economic, ethical, legal, cultural, psychological and biological processes that affect women's mental health.
2. The role of women in marriage, family, society and its effects on mental health.
3. The mental health effects of violence and abuse against women
4. The disorders that are more prevalent or serious in women
5. The prevention, causes and treatments of diseases specific to women (related to the reproductive cycle)
6. Women's perinatal mental health
7. Effects of gender-related treatments (for ex. changes of plasma levels in relation to menstrual cycle, etc...)