The executive director of NHMH, Florence C. Fee, J.D., will be one of the featured speakers at the invitation-only conference on global mental health organized by the U.S. Government’s National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), March 24-25, 2011 in Bethesda, Maryland, USA. The conference will draw together experts and leading advocates, researchers and policy-makers on global mental health issues, including international authors of the World Health Organization’s landmark 2007 Global Mental Health Report, published in the Sept-Oct 2007 issues of The Lancet.
A copy of Ms. Fee’s presentation to the conference on the topic of ‘Solidarity and Collaboration in Global Mental Health’ will be posted on this site immediately after the event.

In today’s healthcare market, less than 4% of the health care dollar is used to support clinical mental health treatment – 2% less than 17 years ago.

(Kathol et al, JGIM 20: 160-167, 2005)