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

我们建议建立一个中心，名为撒哈拉以南非洲精神卫生发展伙伴关系， 非洲（PaM-D）。该中心旨在建立一个基础设施，以发展心理健康（MH）研究 在撒哈拉以南非洲（SSA）的能力，并通过开展创新的公共科学促进全球MH科学 在该地区开展健康相关的卫生保健研究。该中心将汇集六个国家的机构， 下列国家的卫生系统需要重大改进：尼日利亚、南非、加纳、肯尼亚、塞拉利昂和 利比里亚与来自美国和英国机构的杰出研究人员，与政府合作 各部门和非政府组织。它将由一个多学科的国际团队组成， 著名的研究人员，他们对复杂和特殊的心理健康状况的直接经验， 非洲将被引导到解决与精神卫生政策优先程度低相关的各种需求， 健康、人力资源极度匮乏、社区认识不足、对精神健康的认识不足 这些条件和治疗不足。 目标包括：（1）将服务提供者、政策制定者和具有以下专长的研究人员聚集在一起： 全球卫生部将建立一个撒哈拉以南地区卫生部研究中心，并将其作为一个区域中心 支持该地区的研究能力建设和创新的人力资源服务发展，重点是， 首先，为患有其中一种最严重的致残精神健康问题的人提供服务： 精神病和（2）制定和实施有针对性的培训和指导计划， 心理健康研究能力在广泛的心理健康专业人员，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.