Participants
(Max. 25)
Participants
may be from the professional, governmental or development
sector. They may be health or mental health professionals,
health care providers, policy developers, program managers,
researchers or community organizers. They would have experience
in health / RH, service delivery, advocacy or other development
work. They, or the organisations they represent, would
have a keen interest to develop capacity and run community
programs in the area of mental health. They may also have
an interest in integrating a mental health component into
their ongoing programs.
Course
Outline
Day,
1, 2: Module I- Concepts in Gender / Mental Health
This
module, of two sessions, will orient participants to concepts
in gender and mental health, and develop linkages between health
and mental health. Evidence base relevant to gender and mental
health will be discussed.
Days
2,3,4: Module 2- Reproductive Health and Mental Health
This
module, of five sessions, will introduce concerns in the growing
field of gender and reproductive health.
Session
I - Perspective on Gender and Reproductive Health
Session
II - Evidence Base - Reproductive Health and Mental Health
Session
III - Gynecological Morbidity and Mental Health
Session
IV - Post natal depression
Session
V - Violence against women and mental health
Day
5, 6: Module 3- Policy and Advocacy in Gender and Mental
Health
This
module of four sessions, will introduce policy, service and
advocacy concerns in mental health, and emphasize the possibility
of linking mental health service delivery with reproductive
health care.
Session
I - Reproductive Health Policy and Services
Session
II - Mental health Policy and Services
Session
III - Mental health and Reproductive Health- Strategies
for integration
Session
IV - Law and Mental Health
Methods
The 6 day course is an intensive academic study program. Teaching
methods used are lectures, seminars, work assignments and
workgroups. Comprehensive reading materials and handouts
will be provided to all the participants. The language of
instruction will be English.
Fees
No registration fee is being charged from participants for the
course or for the course materials. Local hospitality will
be provided. However, participants may make their own travel
arrangements.
Dates
9th February -14th February, 2004
Venue
BAIF Development Research Foundation
Dr. Manibhai Desai Nagar,
N.H. No. 4, Warje,
Pune - 411 029, Maharashtra.
Tel: 020-5231661
Email: baif@vsnl.com
Course
co-ordinators
Bhargavi V Davar, Ph. D.*
TK Sundari Ravindran, Ph. D.**
Faculty
Dr Vikram Patel, Chair Person, Sangath, Goa; Faculty, London
School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London.
Amita Dhanda, Ph. D., Professor of Law, NALSAR, Hyderabad.
*Bhargavi
Davar finished her Ph. D. in Philosophy of Psychiatry from
IIT, Bombay. She has authored two books: Psychoanalysis as
a Human Science (Sage, 1995); Mental health of Indian women
(Sage, 1999) and edited a book, Mental health from a gender
perspective (Sage, 2001). In 1999, she founded the Bapu Trust
for Research on Mind
& Discourse, a national level research organisation devoted
to gender, policy and legal research, and human rights advocacy
in mental health. Bapu is presently running projects on women's
mental health, institutional care, traditional healing and other
vital areas of policy research.
Email: davar@pn2.vsnl.net.in
**TK
Sundari Ravindran is an independent researcher working on
women's health and reproductive rights for the past 20 years.
A doctorate in Applied Economics, she is the founder of RUWSEC,
Tamil Nadu. RUWSEC has pioneered a number of community based
reproductive health programmes. Sundari was co-editor of
Reproductive Health Matters from 1992-1999. She has authored
Women of South-East Asia- A health profile, produced by the
WHO-SEARO and has worked with WHO on the training programme
on "Gender and Rights in Reproductive Health".
She is presently honorary professor at the Achutha Menon
Centre for Health Science Studies in Trivandrum, Kerala,
where she teaches a course on Health and Development to MPH
students.
Email: ravindrans@usa.net
For
details contact us at:
Course co-ordinator, "Gender and Mental Health"
Center
for Advocacy in Mental Health,
Gulmohar Apartments
Ground Floor,
Survey No. 50
Opposite Konark Pooram
Satyanand Hospital Lane
Kondhwa Khurd
Pune 411 048, India
Tel: 020-26837644/47
Email: wamhc@dataone.in; info@camhindia.org
