Mental Health for All

This should be a time for huge hope and optimism in the potential for science and research to deliver exciting breakthroughs capable of tackling our greatest mental health challenges. With reducing the treatment gap rightly a priority for many nations, this session will discuss how innovation can meet the needs of policy makers, deliver in low resource settings and be driven by those with lived experience.

This session will briefly introduce the extent of the burden of poor mental health, and spotlight solutions and the path to their equitable implementation. It will consider what policy makers need from innovation to develop and implement effective strategies globally, regionally or nationally; and showcase case studies of effective and promising interventions. This session will also consider what action is needed to make this vision a reality, including centering lived experience in designing effective technical and policy solutions.