Administration Core - Partnerships for Mental Health Development in Sub-Saharian Africa

管理核心 - 撒哈拉以南非洲心理健康发展伙伴关系

• 批准号: 8876793
• 负责人: Oyewusi Gureje
• 金额: $ 2.27万
• 依托单位: COLLEGE OF MEDICINE, UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-07-01 至 2017-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8876793
• 关键词: Achievement; Address; Africa; Africa South of the Sahara; African; Awareness; Caring; Centers of Research Excellence; Communities; Complex; Country; Development; Discipline; Economic Development; Empirical Research; Evolution; Funding; Ghana; Goals; Government; Health; Health Personnel; Health Policy; Health Professional; Health Sciences; Health Services Needs; Health system; Healthcare; Human Resources; Human Rights Abuses; Individual; Institution; International; Kenya; Knowledge; Liberia; Medicine; Mental Health; Mental Health Services; Mentally Ill Persons; Mentors; Movement; Names; Nigeria; Outcome; Persons; Physicians; Play; Policies; Policy Developments; Policy Maker; Provider; Psychiatry; Psychotic Disorders; Public Health; Reporting; Research; Research Infrastructure; Research Personnel; Research Support; Research Training; Resources; Secure; Series; Services; Sierra Leone; South Africa; Specialist; Training; Training Programs; World Health; Writing; design; dissemination research; experience; health economics; improved; innovation; meetings; multidisciplinary; programs; response; scale up

We propose to develop a hub by the name Partnership for Mental Health Development in Sub-Saharan Africa (PaM-D). The hub is aimed at creating an infrastructure to develop mental health (MH) research capacity in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and to advance global MH science by conducting innovative public health-relevant MH research in the region. The hub will bring together institutions in six countries in great need for major improvements in their health systems: Nigeria, South Africa, Ghana, Kenya, Sierra Leone and Liberia with outstanding researchers from institutions in the US and UK, in partnership with government departments and non-governmental organizations. It will consist of a multidisciplinary team of internationally renowned researchers whose direct experience about the complex and peculiar mental health situations in Africa will be channeled towards addressing the diverse needs associated with low policy priority for mental health, extreme paucity of human resources, poor community awareness, low recognition of mental health conditions and under-treatment of those conditions. The aims include: (1) bringing together service providers, policy makers, and researchers with expertise in global MH to create a Sub-Saharan MH Research Hub that will establish itself as a regional center supporting research capacity-building and innovative MH service development in the region, focusing, initially, on expanding service for persons suffering from one of the most disabling mental health problems: psychosis and (2) developing and implementing targeted programs of training and mentoring that build mental health research capacity in a broad range of mental health professionals with a view to creating and supporting a critical mass of experts for innovative mental health research to address the region's mental health needs.

我们建议建立一个名为“撒哈拉以南地区心理健康发展伙伴关系”的中心 非洲（PaM-D）。该中心旨在创建基础设施来发展心理健康（MH）研究 撒哈拉以南非洲 (SSA) 的能力，并通过开展创新型公共活动来推进全球 MH 科学 该地区与健康相关的 MH 研究。该中心将汇集六个国家的机构 需要重大改进其卫生系统：尼日利亚、南非、加纳、肯尼亚、塞拉利昂和 利比里亚与政府合作，拥有来自美国和英国机构的杰出研究人员 部门和非政府组织。它将由一支国际化的多学科团队组成 著名研究人员对复杂而特殊的心理健康状况有直接的经验 非洲将致力于解决与心理问题政策优先级较低相关的多样化需求。 卫生、人力资源极度匮乏、社区意识差、心理健康认知度低 条件以及对这些条件的治疗不足。 目标包括：(1) 将具有以下专业知识的服务提供者、政策制定者和研究人员聚集在一起 全球MH创建撒哈拉以南MH研究中心，将其打造成区域中心 支持该地区的研究能力建设和创新的 MH 服务发展，重点是， 首先，关于扩大对患有最严重的心理健康问题之一的人的服务： 精神病和（2）制定和实施有针对性的培训和指导计划，以建立 广泛的心理健康专业人员的心理健康研究能力，以创造和 支持大量专家进行创新性心理健康研究，以解决该地区的心理问题 健康需求。