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World Congress of the World Federation for Mental Health
11/01/2011 - Submitted by: Hohenstein Rena
We look forward to welcoming you, your colleagues and families to Cape Town in South Africa in 2011 for the World Mental Health Congress 2011, from 17 to 21 October. The first World Mental Health Congress of the World Federation for Mental Health to be hosted in sub-Saharan Africa promises to spotlight mental health issues of global importance and of particular relevance to developing countries. The core of the local organising committee is already hard at work to ensure that the World Mental Health Congress is successful, and we will be building on the experiences of WMHC 2009 in our planning. We look forward to seeing you in South Africa! Warm regards Ingrid Daniels WMHC 2011 LOC Chair The Congress Theme "African Footprint in Global Mental Health"covers broad issues. Congress tracks and topics will include * Transcultural mental health * Mental health promotion and prevention * Advocacy and human rights * Ethics and the Law in mental health * Infant, child, and adolescent mental health * Old age mental health * Intellectual Disability * Innovative intervention and treatment programmes * Health economics * Mental health policy * Psychosocial rehabilitation * Special Interest areas, including Mental health and Poverty, HIV/AIDS, Diabetes, Disaster, and refugees 17 January 2011 Close of abstract submission 24 March 2011 Notification of acceptance of papers 31 March 2011 Early Bird Registration Deadline 3 May 2011 Compilation of draft programme 31 August 2011 Standard Registration Deadline
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