Wednesday, October 9th, 2024
12:00-13:00 | Registrations |
13:00-13:10 | Welcome & Introduction Elie Karam President of WPA Epidemiology and Public Health Section |
13:10-13:20 | Opening Remarks by the President of Chulalongkorn University |
13:20-13:30 | Group Photo |
13:30-14:30 | Plenary Session 1 Chitlada Areesantichai PhD (Thailand): Future Directions and Opportunities |
14:30-14:45 | Break |
14:45-16:45 | Symposium 1: New Technologies and Mental Health Chairpersons: Michael Ni & Marissa de Guzman Marissa de Guzman: Framework for the Philippine National Survey for Mental Health and Well-being Corina Benjet: Benefits and challenges of guided and self-guided internet-delivered treatment for anxiety and depression in Latin America Ian Hickie: Using digital technologies to deliver “right care, first time, where you live” |
16:45-18:00 | Opening Reception |
Thursday, October 10th, 2024
08:00-08:10 | Welcome & Opening |
08:10-09:10 | Plenary Session 2 Sandro Galea MD, DrPH(USA): Towards a mental health epidemiology: Promise and pitfalls |
09:10-11:10 | Symposium 2: Urban and Rural Environments and Mental Health /Suicide Chairperson: Corina Benjet John Pamplin: The impact of social inequality on emerging racial inequities in urban US suicide and drug overdose deaths Jitender Sareen: Medical assistance in dying in Canada: legal, moral and ethical challenges Maosheng Ran: The long-term outcome of persons with schizophrenia in rural China Daisuke Nishi: Urbanization and mental health in Japan |
11:10-12:15 | Lunch – Poster Presentations Day 1 |
12:15-14:15 | Symposium 3: New Risk Factors and Mental Health Chairpersons: Helen Herrman & Oye Gureje Oye Gureje: TBA Lukoye Atwoli: New phenotypes for psychiatric genomics: what the future holds Jen Dykxhoorn: Outside in: new research on linking mental health to broad social, economic, political, and environmental factors Robert Smith: Predicting physical health in people with severe mental illness Chi-Shin Wu: Exploring Key Risk Factors for Suicide Among Taiwanese Older Adults |
14:15-15:30 | Oral Presentations Session |
15:30-15:45 | Break |
15:45-17:45 | Symposium 4: Insertion of Multiple Stressors and Comorbidity Chairperson: Elie Karam Thomas Schulze: Multiomics of major psychiatric phenotypes: addressing the complex interplay of biological susceptibility and clinical presentation Yunyu Xiao: Harnessing Big Data and Causal Modeling: Unveiling Social Determinants in Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Linda Cottler: Social Determinants of Poor Quality of Life and Poor Mental Health Assessed in the National US All of Us Cohort AJ Adkins-Jackson: “My mind is playing tricks on me”: How structural racism impacts depressive symptoms and cognitive performance |
Friday, October 11th, 2024
08:00-08:10 | Welcome & Opening |
08:10-09:10 | Plenary Session 3 Elie Karam MD (Lebanon): Convergence in three major national traumatic events |
09:10-10:10 | Plenary
Session 4 Tansella Award Winner Holly Erskine, PhD: The prevalence of mental disorders, suicidal behaviours, and self-harm among adolescents in Kenya, Indonesia, and Vietnam: Methodology and key findings from the National Adolescent Mental Health Surveys (NAMHS) |
10:10-10:30 | Break |
10:30-12:30 | Symposium 5: Measuring Psychiatric Disorders: Innovative Approaches Chairperson: Lukoye Atwoli Michael Ni: Assessment of Mental Health and Wellbeing: Approaches for Robust and Timely Measurements Viviane Kovess: Using a self-administered computerized questionnaire: the Dominic Interactive to compare parental attitudes and children mental health across cultures Vicknasingam Balasingam Kasinather: Role of Implementation Science in Substance Use Disorder and HIV Treatment Katherine Keyes: Limitations of using large biobanks for psychiatric genomic research: why sampling design matters |
12:30-13:30 | Lunch – Poster Presentations Day 2 |
13:30-15:30 | Symposium 6:
Training the Next Generation of Psychiatric Epidemiologists Chairperson: Linda Cottler Jim Anthony: Thirteen Ways of Looking at Epidemiology: A Selective Overview Girish Rao: Learning Lab for Psychiatric Epidemiology: Making it work - the Indian experience Mohan Isaac: Current state of psychiatric epidemiology in Asia: the urgent need for a new generation of Asian psychiatric epidemiologists Helen Herrman: Research and training needs for transforming mental health globally |
15:30-16:30 | Plenary Session 5 Lukoye Atwoli MBS, MBChB, MMed Psych, PhD, IFAPA (Kenya): Linking the neighbourhood to the neurone: an African’s experience from trauma to Climate Action |
16:30-17:30 | WPA Section Membership Meeting |
17:30-17:45 | Closing Reception |