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#prevention #care #publichealth #substanceabuse #suicide #local #global #globalmentalhealthislocal | Pamela Collins

Last week in New York, the global mental health community showed up in its beautiful diversity for the Fourth United Nations High-level Meeting on prevention and control of NCDs and the promotion of mental health and wellbeing. I was privileged to start the week with Devex Impact House as a panelist for "Brain Health at the Crossroads: Innovation, Integration and Impact" and to share the stage with Vincent Mujune, Kana Enomoto, George Vradenburg, and Annika Sten Pärson.  Brain health requires a life-course approach that includes #prevention and #care. Primary care, #publichealth and community partners play important roles in both. We have to celebrate and sustain the research, the innovation, the advocates and the implementors around the globe who create paths to healing and recovery for well over a billion people living with mental, neurological, and substance use disorders. Global mental health is local, and I ended the week on Staten Island. Dr. Ginny Mantello and her colleagues shared the Blueprint for youth mental health, whose goal is to respond to worrying trends in mental health on Staten Island by engaging a broad coalition of committed partners to prevent and treat mental health conditions, #substanceabuse, #suicide and suicidal behaviors. CHRISTA D. LABOULIERE, New York State Office of Mental Health, Nick Ialongo, Allen Tien, MD, MHS, Joshua M. Sharfstein, Partnerships for Community Wellness, Staten Island Tech High School, Bloomberg American Health Initiative I’m so grateful for this community, #local and #global, whose research, practice, and advocacy spurs our field. United for Global Mental Health, Devora Kestel, Renato Oliveira e Souza, Sarah Kline, Dr Antonis Kousoulis MD, DrPH, Dr Ruma Bhargava, StrongMinds, McKinsey Health Institute, Department of Mental Health - Johns Hopkins BSPH, Global Mental Health - Johns Hopkins. #globalmentalhealthislocal

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