Gender Equity in Global Mental Health Research: Call to Action & Next Steps

Women in Global Mental Health Research are delighted to launch a new Call to Action – co-developed by 102 women researchers from around the globe – and to discuss next steps in how the Global Mental Health needs to change to better promote gender equity.

Joining our conversation are researchers, funders, and journal editors - add your voice, and discuss next steps with us!

Key points of our Call to Action are:

• The inequity in our research teams undermines progress in mental health research
• Women do not become principal investigators and senior authors: the bottleneck persists
• Global mental health research funding exacerbates the inequity
• There are low hanging fruits for journals, funders and institutions with regards to promoting women (double blind review, blind recruitment, considering institutional gender equity in research proposals)

Confirmed speakers include:

Panel 1: Researchers

• Dristy Gurung, TPO Nepal
• Mehdin Selamu, Addis Ababa U & WHO Ethiopia
• and more

Panel 2: Editors & Funders

• Joan Marsh, Lancet Psychiatry
• Sara Goler Solecki, MRC-UKRI
• David Newsome, King’s College London

How to register:

This session will convene online. To join, please register in advance via the Zoom registration link here.

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about how to join the seminar.