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Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Training in Mental Health Policy and Economics Research – ICMPE, Venice
Location: Venice, Italy
Dates: 9-19 July 2008
Registration deadline: 15 April 2008
Organiser: International Center of Mental Health Policy and Economics (ICMPE)
Website: http://www.icmpe.org/
Email: moscarelli@icmpe.org
Training Description: Leading international authorities from the different core disciplines of the field (psychiatry, psychology, economics, health policy, services research) will serve as instructors for the formal in-person courses. The teachers have been distinguished speakers at international congresses, have published extensively in international peer-reviewed journals, have relevant experience in academic education and training. This course provides an interdisciplinary, introductory approach to the core components of the field. It will develop a common, “core” set of information and expertise that is needed by all researchers, regardless of discipline, to conduct research in this area and to communicate with one another in a common language. The participants will be trained in each of the core components of the field of mental health policy and economics and provided a picture of how the disciplines relate to each other and are integrated to produce high quality research in this field. The participants will learn what each discipline contributes (principally clinical, health services analysis, health economics, health policy, study design and methods) in joint research projects development. It will enable participants both to refine the contribution of their specific discipline and to develop awareness of when they need to rely on collaboration with informed researchers from other disciplines to design and conduct a “sound” research project. .
The Training material and the related references (Syllabus and References) referring to the issues that each instructor will cover, are available to the Participants through password on the ICMPE website upon registration. It will enable participants to receive substantial information prior of their Courses..
Training Courses
MAPPING OF MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES WITHIN COUNTRIES
Shekhar Saxena
M.D., Co-ordinator of the Team Mental Health: Evidence and Research at World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
MENTAL HEALTH POLICY RESEARCH: EPIDEMIOLOGY AND SERVICES RESEARCH
Howard H. Goldman
MD, Ph.D., Professor of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA
ECONOMIC EVALUATION FOR HEALTH CARE DECISION MAKING
Michael Drummond
Ph.D., Professor of Health Economics, Centre for Health Economics, University of York, UK
MENTAL HEALTH FINANCING POLICY AND OUTCOMES ANALYSIS
Teh-wei Hu
Ph.D., Professor in Graduate School, Professor Emeritus of Health Economics, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
ECONOMIC EVALUATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH INTERVENTIONS
Martin Knapp
Ph.D., Professor of Health Economics, Centre for the Economics of Mental Health, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London; and Professor of Social Policy, LSE Health & Social Care, London School of Economics, London, UK
