| Wednesday • May 2, 2018
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| 12:30-13:00 | OPENING SESSION Welcome Addresses – Michele Tansella Award Ceremony |
| 13:00-14:00 | INTRODUCTORY PLENARY TO THE CONFERENCE: Challenges for psychiatric epidemiology in addressing 21st Century mental health challenges with 21st Century methods |
| 14:00-16:00 | LOCAL SYMPOSIUM: Mental health in New York City: Policy and intervention meet public health |
| 16:00-16:20 | Intermission |
| 16:20-18:20 | SYMPOSIUM 1: Variation in incidence of psychiatric disorders over time and place |
| 18:20 | Welcome Reception |
| Thursday • May 3, 2018
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| 09:00-10:00 | PLENARY SESSION 1: Social determinants: What do we do with them? |
| 10:00-12:00 | SYMPOSIUM 2: Sixty years after WHO meetings on psychiatric epidemiology: Perspectives of impact |
| 12:00-13:00 | Lunch Break POSTER PRESENTATIONS SESSION 1 Careers in psychiatric epidemiology (lunch discussion) |
| 13:00-14:00 | PLENARY SESSION 2: A public health approach to the prevention of psychosis |
| 14:00-16:00 | SYMPOSIUM 3: Interventions in a global mental health setting: Successes and challenges |
| 16:00-16:20 | Intermission |
| 16:20-18:20 | ORAL PRESENTATIONS SESSION 1 & 2 |
| Friday • May 4, 2018
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| 09:00-10:00 | PLENARY SESSION 3: Psychiatric epidemiology and mental health challenges in Mexico |
| 10:00-12:00 | SYMPOSIUM 4: Translation and back translation of basic and clinical research to public health |
| 12:00-13:00 | Lunch Break POSTER PRESENTATIONS SESSION 2 WPA Epidemiology & Public Health Section Members Meeting |
| 13:00-14:00 |
PLENARY SESSION 4: Challenges in designing neuropsychiatric genetic research in Africa: Lessons from the NeuroGAP Moi project |
| 14:00-16:00 | SYMPOSIUM 5: Causality and psychopathology: Novel study design, measurement and methods for causal inference |
| 16:00-16:20 | Intermission |
| 16:20-18:20 | SYMPOSIUM 6: Trauma and mental health in a global setting: Research on refugees and displaced persons around the globe |
| 18:20-18:30 | Closing Ceremony |



