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

我们建议在撒哈拉以南地区建立一个名为精神卫生发展伙伴关系的中心 非洲(Pam-D)。该中心旨在建立一个基础设施，以发展精神健康(MH)研究 撒哈拉以南非洲(SSA)的能力，并通过开展创新的公共活动来推动全球MH科学 在该地区开展与健康相关的MH研究。该中心将把六个国家的机构聚集在一起， 需要大力改善其卫生系统：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，由来自美国和英国机构的杰出研究人员组成 各部门和非政府组织。它将由一个多学科的国际团队组成 著名研究人员对中国复杂而特殊的心理健康状况有直接经验 非洲将被引导到解决与较低的精神卫生政策优先相关的多样化需求 健康，人力资源极度匮乏，社区意识差，对心理健康的认可度低 这些条件和这些条件的不充分待遇。 目标包括：(1)将具有以下专业知识的服务提供商、政策制定者和研究人员聚集在一起 全球卫生署将创建撒哈拉以南地区卫生署研究中心，将其确立为地区中心 支持本地区的研究能力建设和创新的MH服务发展，重点是 首先，关于扩大为患有最严重的精神健康问题之一的人提供的服务： 精神病和(2)制定和实施有针对性的培训和辅导方案 在广泛的精神卫生专业人员中培养精神卫生研究能力，以期创造和 支持大量专家进行创新的心理健康研究，以解决该地区的心理健康问题 健康需求。

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.