PROGRAM

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Scientific Program Synopsis

The Scientific program will facilitate interchange of innovation in Mental Health practice. It is intended to be a practical outcomes oriented forum for debate and development of a series of recommendations for adoption by the Board of the World Federation for Mental Health. These recommendations will provide direction for partnerships to promote Mental Health in the developed and developing world.

Core Theme "Partnerships in Health"

The Scientific Program theme will focus on advancement since the WHO document "Global Burden of Disease" identifying the partnerships necessary to advance Mental Health. Partnerships to be considered in global and local communities will include those between developed and developing nations; consumers, relatives, clinicians and governments; art, music, media, business, health and social impact agencies; and, you and me.

Theme Summaries

The Congress will involve a five-day scientific meeting with plenary sessions and keynote invited speakers, concurrent sessions, poster and multi media presentations. The five key themes are:

RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
Research and Development to focus on directions in psychiatry, psychology and Mental Health from 2003 to 2023. Best practices in partnership arrangements for treatment and prevention of ill health, with an emphasis on stress, anxiety and depression and their links with other disorders.

ECONOMY, PRODUCTIVITY, EDUCATION AND INFORMATION
Economy, Productivity, Education and Information will focus on socially healthy global communities; the economic and social cost to nations and the individual cost of under resourcing treatment and care for mental illness; the economies of scale in partnering social health with physical and Mental Health; and celebration of life and well-being - spirituality, joy, exercise, relaxation, nutrition, work and study.

QUALITY OF LIFE & PSYCHIATRIC DISABILITY
Quality of Life & Psychiatric Disability will focus on the rights of humans and the practicalities necessary to living full satisfying lives enjoying work, love, parenting, spiritual and emotional wellbeing whether disabled by mental illness or blessed with Mental Health.

MULTICULTURAL & INDIGENOUS MENTAL HEALTH
Multicultural & Indigenous Mental Health will address the cultural differences in prevention, acceptance and coping with illness and in Mental Health promotion. It will celebrate the diversity in Australia and our Asia Pacific Rim neighbours and these with other global communities.

AGE & GENDER
Age & Gender will address mental illness and Mental Health issues across the ages, gender and sexuality. Issues relevant to infant, child, adolescent, midlife and older age groupings will be discussed. Best practice models for provision of Mental Health promotion for the needs of both men and women. The Congress will involve a five-day scientific meeting with plenary sessions and keynote invited speakers, concurrent sessions, poster and multi media presentations.

Keynote Speakers

Begone Arino

Graham Burrows

Sharan Burrow

Jean Campbell

Edmond Chiu

John Connolly

Tim Costello

Frederick Goodwin

Helen Herrmann

Justice Michael Kirby

Jayashri Kulkarni

Elizabeth Matare

Mary O'Hagan

Beverley Raphael

Shekhar Saxena

Bruce Singh

Donna Stewart

Kazuyoshi Yamamoto

Graham Burrows

Graham Burrows is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Melbourne and Director of the Mental Health Clinical Service Unit at the Austin & Repatriation Medical Centre, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia He has published more than 650 scientific articles in peer reviewed journals. He is the author or editor of more than 95 books including the Handbook of Anxiety Disorders and the Handbook of General Hospital Psychiatry and has contributed 190 chapters in other scientific books. He serves on the editorial boards of 30 International and Australian journals. He serves on a number of advisory boards to Australia, International, Governmental and Scientific Organisations including the World Psychiatric Association and the World Health Organisation. For the past 32 years he has made a major commitment to Non-Government Organisations and Mental Health education to the Community. Current roles include Chairman, Mental Health Foundation Australia; President, Mental Health Foundation Australia (Vic) and President, Alzheimer's Association of Victoria. 1981-1985 Regional Vice President, Oceania Region , and Life Member of the World Federation of Mental Health.

Sharan Burrow

In May 2000 Sharan Burrow became the second woman to be elected ACTU President. In October 2000 Ms Burrow also became the first ever woman to be elected President of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions Asia Pacific Region Organisation. Ms Burrow was born in 1954 in Warren, a small town in western NSW, into a family with a long history of involvement in unions and the struggle to improve the lives of working people. Her great, great grandfather participated in the shearers' strike of 1891/92, becoming one of the first organisers for the Australian Workers' Union and standing for the state seat of Cobar for the fledgling Australian Labor Party in 1896. Ms Burrow studied teaching at the University of NSW in 1976 and began her teaching career in high schools around country NSW. She became an organiser for the NSW Teachers' Federation, based in Bathurst, and was President of the Bathurst Trades and Labour Council during the 1980's. Ms Burrow was elected Senior Vice-President of the NSW Teachers' Federation and became President of the Australian Education Union in 1992. She represented the AEU on the ACTU Executive through the 1990's. Ms Burrow was elected Vice-President of Education International in 1995. Education International is the international organisation of education unions representing 24 million members worldwide.

Jean Campbell

Jean Campbell directs the Program in Consumer Studies and Training at the Missouri Institute of Mental Health. She is an international leader in the effort to define Mental Health performance measures, and is currently Principal Investigator of a federal multi-site research initiative to study the costeffectiveness of consumer-operated programs within a continuum of community care.

Edmond Chiu

Edmond Chiu is Professor of Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry, the University of Melbourne at Normandy House, St. Georges Hospital, Kew, Victoria, Australia. He is Immediate Past President of the International Psychogeriatric Association and Chairman of Psychiatry of the Old Age Section of the WPA.

John Connolly

John Connolly is currently working as a Consultant Psychiatrist/ Clinical Director of the Mayo Psychiatric Services. Having trained in Cork and worked for a time in Bantry he went to England to undertake training in psychiatry. He was appointed Consultant Psychiatrist in Preston in 1972 and returned to Mayo in 1979 to take up a consultant post in St. Mary's Hospital, Castlebar, where he has since worked. In 1999 he was made a fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatry. Dr. Connolly's main research interest is in suicide and he has published a number of articles on trends in suicide rates, underreporting of suicide and media reporting of suicide. He is a cofounder and honorary secretary of the Irish Association of Suicidology. He is Chairman of the Mayo Mental Health Association Ltd. and a Director of the Mental Health Association of Ireland. Dr. Connolly is Coeditor in Chief of CRISIS the International Journal of Suicide Prevention and Crisis Intervention. He is also Proprietor and Managing Director of the Connaught Telegraph Newspaper.

Tim Costello

Ordained a Baptist Minister in 1986, Tim Costello rebuilt the congregation at the St Kilda Baptist Church, opened a drop-in centre and worked in a legal practice for those for whom the law is normally inaccessible. In 1995 he was appointed Director of the Urban Seed (formerly Urban Mission Unit), a Christian not-for-profit organisation created in response to concern among city churches about homelessness, drug abuse and the marginalisation of the city's street people. As Director of Urban Seed (US), Reverend Costello has been the embodiment of US's objective to engage society on the critical moral, spiritual, social and cultural issues of our time. For a number of years now, Reverend Costello has been one of Australia's leading voices on issues such as urban poverty, homelessness, problem gambling, reconciliation and substance abuse. He is widely known as a spokesperson for the Interchurch Gambling Taskforce in Victoria. Amongst his many commitments he is a member of the National Advisory Body on Gambling and the Alcohol Education and Rehabilitation Foundation.

Frederick Goodwin

Frederick K. Goodwin is Research Professor at the George Washington University Medical Center in Washington, DC. Frederick Goodwin is the former Director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).A graduate of Georgetown University, Dr. Goodwin obtained his M.D. at St. Louis University and completed his psychiatric residency at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. He has authored over 430 publications, including Manic Depressive Illness (1990) with K.R. Jamison, Ph.D.

Helen Herrmann

Helen Herrman is Professor of Psychiatry and Public Health at the University of Melbourne and Director of Psychiatry at St Vincent's Mental Health Service, Melbourne. She is Director of the World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre in Melbourne, and for a year in 2001 - 2002 was Acting Regional Adviser in Mental Health for the WHO Western Pacific Region.

Jayashri Kulkarni

Jayashri Kulkarni is the Professor of Psychiatry at The Alfred Hospital and Monash University, Melbourne. Professor Kulkarni has been involved in schizophrenia research in the area of "Women and Psychosis". Professor Kulkarni's special expertise is in psychoneuroendocrinology and she has developed new treatment strategies using hormones such as estrogen.

Elizabeth Matare

Elizabeth Matare is the Director of the Zimbabwe National Association for Mental Health, a non-government organisation. Mrs Matare is also the current Vice President of the World Federation for Mental Health, Africa Region and the Vice-Chairperson of the National Societies for the Care of the Handicapped, an umbrella organisation for disabilities and a Committee Member of National Association for Non-Government Organisations and Advisory Board Member of the Harare Polytechnical College, a vocational training college.

Mary O'Hagan

Mary O'Hagan has experience of ongoing mental illness. She initiated the Mental Health service user movement in New Zealand in the late 1980s, and was the first chairperson of the World Federation of Psychiatric Users between 1991 and 1995. Ms O'Hagan has experience working in consumer organisations, in Mental Health policy and funding agencies, and as a consultant. She has represented service users in national and international forums. She has also been a keynote speaker at several international conferences and has contributed to several international Mental
Health books and to national government policy documents. Ms O'Hagan's overriding commitment in all her work is to ensure service users are treated with respect and equality in Mental Health services, retain their citizen rights and responsibilities, and are able to develop their personal resourcefulness. To this end Ms O'Hagan has worked to develop self-help and advocacy initiatives, consumer participation in services, consumer-run evaluation, recovery approaches, and anti-discrimination projects.

Beverley Raphael

Beverley Raphael is Director of the Centre for Mental Health for NSW and Emeritus Professor in Psychiatry from the University of Queensland. She also holds professorial appointments at the universities of NSW, Sydney, and Newcastle. She has a long term interest in prevention in Mental Health, with special reference to child and adolescent Mental Health, family issues and issues affecting consumers in Mental Health care systems, and in a population health approach to Mental Health. She has also been involved in the development of Aboriginal Mental Health Policy. She is chair of the National Promotion and Prevention Working Party which oversees the National Mental Health Strategy for promotion, prevention and early intervention. She is an internationally recognised expert in the field of trauma, grief and disasters and has been a consultant to the World Health Organisation, and Australian and international governments. She has published over 200 scientific articles and chapters. She has written two books: The Anatomy of Bereavement (1983) and When Disaster Strikes (1986). She has edited three books: International Handbook of Traumatic Stress Syndromes (w. J Wilson 1993); Handbook of Preventive Psychiatry (w. G. Burrows 1995); and Stress Debriefing (w. J.Wilson 2000).

Bruce Singh

Bruce Singh moved to Melbourne in 1984 to take up the Foundation Chair of Psychological Medicine, Monash University, at Royal Park and Alfred Hospitals. In 1991 he was appointed to succeed Professor Brian Davies as the second Cato Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Melbourne. In that role he is Head of the University of Melbourne Department of Psychiatry. In 1996 Professor Singh was appointed as Associate Dean (International), responsible for international matters in the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences. He has published extensively in psychiatric literature and has co-edited two books, The Foundations of Clinical Psychiatry Textbook (1994), and Understanding Troubled Minds (1997), both published by Melbourne University Press.

Donna Stewart

Donna Stewart is Professor and Chair of Women's Health at University Health Network and University of Toronto. Dr. Stewart is a women's health researcher, educator, author, advocate and policy advisor nationally and internationally and chairs the Section of Women's Mental Health for the American and World Psychiatric Associations.

Kazuyoshi Yamamoto

Kazuyoshi Yamamoto is the Regional Vice-President for the WFMH Western-Pacific region. He is currently Assistant Professor of social psychiatry and deputy director of the department of General Medicine, at the University of the Ryukyus Hospital, Okinawa, Japan. Dr. Yamamoto also serves as the designated physician for occupational health to promote Mental Health in the workplace, and has dedicated himself to community psychiatry for more than 20 years. He extended his research in trans-cultural psychiatry as a visiting research fellow of the University of Melbourne in Australia from 1994 to 1995. His work involves extensive research in the field of trans-cultural psychiatry and international Mental Health, training and lecturing medical students and residents in Psychiatry, and providing clinical care. He is devoted to ongoing improvement of the quality of care and services for patients.

Special Lectures

GEORGE ALBEE LECTURE
Saturday February 22, 2003
11:30 - 12:30
Professor Beverley Raphael

MARGARET MEAD MEMORIAL LECTURE
Sunday February 23, 2003
11:30 - 12:30
Professor Donna Stewart

MARY HEMINGWAY REES MEMORIAL LECTURE
Tuesday February 25, 2003
11:30 - 12:30
Reverend Tim Costello

Special Events

WFMH BUSINESS MEETING FOR MEMBER ORGANISATIONS and MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATIONS NETWORKS FORUM
FRIDAY FEBRUARY 21, 2003
13:30 - 16:00
Continuing on the tradition of previous WFMH World Congresses a special Congress of representatives of Mental Health Associations and other World Federation Member Organisations will take place immediately prior to the official opening of the 2003 World Congress. This will provide an opportunity to learn about the activities of international and national member organisations as well as meeting colleagues and forming new partnerships with delegates interested in similar Mental Health work and activities.

JOINT COLLABORATING CENTRES FOR EXCELLENCE ASSEMBLY
FRIDAY FEBRUARY 21, 2003
10:30 - 12:30

WORLD FEDERATION REGIONAL MEETINGS
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 22 - TUESDAY FEBRUARY 25, 2003
12:30 - 13:30
These meetings, chaired by World Federation Vice Presidents, enable representatives of member organisations and individual members to discuss matters of concern within each major geographical region and to plan future activities. Each WFMH Region will be allocated a Luncheon Break to hold their regional meeting.

WORLD FEDERATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
MONDAY FEBRUARY 24, 2003
COMMENCING AT 16:00
This is the formal meeting of the WFMH to report on Federation activities during the past year and to elect Board office holders.

CONSUMER WELCOME
Friday February 21, 2003

Venue: Howqua Suite 3, Melbourne Convention Centre
Time: 13:30 - 15:30

An excellent opportunity for consumers / users / survivors to come together to meet each other and renew friendships before the scientific program commences.

Social Program

OPENING CEREMONY
Friday February 21, 2003

Venue: John Batman Theatre, Melbourne Convention Centre
Time: 16:30 - 18:00
Inclusive for Registered Delegates and Accompanying Persons
Additional Tickets: A$60.00 per person

This important Opening Ceremony and inauguration promises to be a spectacular event which will showcase a taste of Australia with colourful performances combined with the beautiful voices of Australia. Registered delegates and accompanying persons are invited to attend this interesting and cultural experience.

WELCOME RECEPTION
Friday February 21, 2003

Venue: You Yangs Exhibition Hall, Melbourne Convention Centre
Time: 18:00 - 19:30
Inclusive for Registered Delegates and Accompanying Persons
Additional Tickets: A$60.00 per person

This informal function will provide delegates with a truly Australian welcome to the Congress involving some interesting and interactive entertainment which guests are able to enjoy whilst they are having cocktails in the Congress Exhibition Area.

CONGRESS DINNER GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY BALL
Tuesday February 25, 2003

Venue: Crown Palladium Ballroom, Crown
Time: 19:00 for 19:30
Cost: A$150.00 for Registered Delegates and Accompanying Persons, A$175.00 for Non-Registered Participants

The official dinner is an important part of any Congress and we aim to make this one memorable by incorporating it with the Mental Health Foundation's Annual Golden Opportunity Ball. Enjoy fine food and wines and be entertained throughout this spectacular evening.

ACCOMPANYING PARTNERS WELCOME
Saturday February 22, 2003

Depart: 09:30 (Return 13:30)
Cost: Included In Accompanying Person's Fee

Don't know anybody? Want to catch-up with old friends? Come and join us for morning tea
at the Melbourne Convention Centre before undertaking one of the following tours.

Mental Health Foundation of Australia

"PARTNERSHIPS, PROMOTION AND PREVENTION"

The policy of the Mental Health Foundation of Australia (MHFA) is built on the principle that partnerships of local and international community stakeholders provide the synergy integral to assuring positive outcomes in Mental Health. Its primary objectives are to promote awareness of mental illness and the barriers created by the related stigma, and to promote awareness of good Mental Health. These primary partnerships include those of the active membership of consumers of Mental Health services and their relatives, personal and clinical carers, other healthcare and health promotion professionals and professionals from the pharmaceutical, legal, media and business sectors. These partnerships are central to our role as responsible and supportive global citizens.

The Foundation aims to educate the community to promote the maintenance of Mental Health and positive attitudes. Early intervention practices to prevent mental illness and to remove the stigma associated with mental illness are a priority.

MHFA promotes the economic and social wisdom of caring for both the mental and physical health for all, while promoting research, recognition and treatment for the relief of people who suffer from a mental illness.

The Foundation maintains strong international and national ties and since the early 1980's has been an active member representative for Australia to the World Federation for Mental Health.

We are delighted to welcome our international and national partners to Melbourne for the WFMH Biennial Congress 2003.

World Federation for Mental Health

If you are not yet a member of the World Federation for Mental Health, please join us now!

Membership offers you the following benefits:

Membership in a worldwide, interdisciplinary network of people involved in Mental Health issues.

A quarterly newsletter to keep you informed of WFMH's activities worldwide.

Annual World Mental Health Day information and planning kit for member organisations; others can request a copy.

Lower registration at some WFMH sponsored meetings. Reduced registration for this Congress is listed on the registration form.

WFMH's strength lies in our membership base. Your membership will enable us to work even more effectively to promote Mental Health in all its aspects for all the world's people.

FEES FOR INDIVIDUAL MEMBERSHIP
Developed Countries: US $ 35.00
Developing Countries: US $ 15.00
Life Member: US $ 500.00

FEES FOR ORGANISATIONAL MEMBERSHIP
Organisational membership fees vary based on the size and type of the organisation. Contact us at the address below to receive an organisational membership kit.

TO JOIN, PLEASE SEND YOU NAME AND ADDRESS TO:

Ms Gwen Dixon
WFMH
PO Box 16810
Alexandria, VA 22302-0810
USA
Phone: +1 703 838 7525
Fax: +1 703 519 7648
Email: wfmh@erols.com
Web: www.wfmh.org

Fees can be paid by Visa, Mastercard or US $ Cheques. Please make cheques payable to WFMH.

Explanation of our Conference Logo

Our Conference Logo is based on the Southern Cross (CRUX) the smallest of 88 constellations covering 68 square degrees. Visible in the past to many great civilisations in the north, precession of the equinoxes has carried if from the view of all those effectively above the tropics.
To Aboriginal communities throughout Australia it represents many different things. One of the most interesting is the view held by the ANNANGU people of Uluru or Ayers Rock in the Northern Territory. They believe the cross is the footprint of a giant wedge-tailed eagle, second biggest in the world, called Warluwarru.

The stars have been linked with dotted lines to symbolise the partnerships networks which are the theme of the World Federation of Mental Health Biennial Congress 2003.