Global Mental Health Convening
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CEGA hosted the 2025 Global Mental Health convening, sponsored by its Psychology and Economics of Poverty initiative. This gathering brought together an interdisciplinary community of faculty, graduate students, and practitioners to explore cutting-edge research and chart new directions for understanding and improving mental health in low-and-middle income countries (LMICs).
This event featured research presentations from mental health scholars and social scientists, interactive brainstorming sessions, networking opportunities, and a panel on the state of the field and next steps. Linked below are featured presentations:
Agenda (link)
- Antidepressant Treatment in Childhood | Sonia Bhalotra, University of Warwick
- Improving Engagement with Mental Health Interventions Among Low-income University Students in Brazil: A Feasibility Hybrid Type III Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial | Sara Evans-Lacko, London School of Economics and Political Science
- Teaching Mental Health: Evaluating India’s “Happiness Curriculum”| Kevin Carney, University of Michigan
- The SMART DAPPER Project: Implementation Science and Economic Analyses for Scale-up of Evidence-based Mental Health Care in Kenya’s Public Sector Primary Care System | Susan Meffert, University of California, San Francisco
- Where we are in the Goal of Integrating Mental Health Services into Other Health Care Systems | Judith Bass, Johns Hopkins University
- Mental Health and Willingness to Invest: Evidence from Group Psychotherapy in India | Daniel Bennett, University of Southern California
- The Long-Run Effects of Psychotherapy on Depression, Beliefs, and Economic Outcomes | Johannes Haushofer, Cornell University
- Financial Incentives, Health Screening, and Selection into Mental Health Care: Experimental Evidence from College Students in India | Frank Schilbach, MIT
- The Well-Being Effects of Digital Mental Health Care | Raissa Fabregas, University of Texas at Austin
- Psychedelics, Rituals, and Well-Being: An Experiment in Brazil | Matt Lowe, University of British Columbia
