24 Oct 2023 13:00 – 14:00 BST
Addressing complex global development issues requires research grounded in collaboration. Successful projects are built on the development and maintenance of strong equal partnerships between disciplines, sectors, and stakeholders (Fransman et al., 2021). However, a myriad of challenges can inhibit effective and meaningful collaborations including misalignment of priorities, differences in ways of working, uncertain commitment, funding, changing project teams, inefficient communication, management and leadership issues and policy and political contexts (Meibner et al., 2022).
In this seminar we hear from Professor Norman Sartorius, the President of the Association for the Improvement of Mental Health Programmes, and past President of the World Psychiatric Association and the European Psychiatric Association who will pose three questions: first, how to select partners for collaborative projects; second how to successfully conduct such studies and third what benefits of participation should be sought and ensured. Professor Sartorius will draw on his extensive experience leading a number of international collaborative studies and projects. We hope you will join the discussion on the why, how and with whom to collaborate on global development research projects.
About Professor Norman Sartorius
Professor N. Sartorius, MD, PhD, FRCPsych was the Director of the Mental Health Division of the World Health Organization and served as the President of the World Psychiatric Association and of the European Psychiatric Association. He is now the President of the Association for the Improvement of Mental Health Programs, a non-governmental organization located in Geneva. Professor Sartorius holds several professorial positions in Europe, the USA and elsewhere. He has published more than 500 papers in peer-reviewed journals and authored, co-authored, edited or co-edited more than 120 books. Professor Sartorius’ main areas of interest at present are the comorbidity of mental and physical disorders, the protection of human rights of people with mental illness and their carers, the reduction of the stigma of mental disorders and the education of psychiatrists and other stakeholders in the field of mental health. In his previous positions he was the principal investigator of a number of international collaborative studies and projects dealing with schizophrenia and other major mental diseases, comorbidity of mental and physical illnesses, health service development and education of different categories of staff.