Global Parent-Child Mental Health Initiative

Department news | January 31, 2016


Cecilia Breinbauer, MD, MPH and Amritha Bhat, MD have been awarded seed money for a Global Parent Child Mental Health Initiative. This initiative is a collaboration between UW Faculty and colleagues from China, Peru, Kenya, and Chile to train care providers, educators, and students on how to work with and talk about mental health issues. In order to help build mental health capacity in these global communities, each country’s participants will have 14 video lectures specifically tailored to that country’s interests and needs. Partners in each country will hold collaborative meetings within their communities to strengthen local mental health networks, and will conduct onsite visits in other countries to facilitate a cross-cultural dialogue on how to improve and approach mental health. Congratulations to Drs. Breinbauer and Bhat!