Diversity in Global Mental Health

Sabine Bährer-Kohler holds a Doctorate in Social Science (Dr. rer.soc) from the University of Tübingen, a Diploma in Education from the University of Education – Freiburg, and a Diploma in Social Work and Social Education from the Protestant University of Applied Sciences. Dr. Bährer-Kohler is currently an Invited Professor in the Tropical Neurology and Neuroinfection Masters program at the International University of Catalonia (UIC) in Barcelona. She has her own company in Basel, Switzerland focused on providing counseling to clients with burnout symptoms and provides training for companies and organizations in this mental health issue. Over the last ten years, she has lectured students worldwide on social factors influencing health, mental health promotion, and prevention, with a focus on global and international perspectives, and she lectures on sustainability and challenges of international social work. She is the International Federation of Social Workers Representative at the World Health Organization in Geneva, contributing to the ICD-10 revision process on the way to ICD-11. She also serves as president of the Swiss Association for Mental Health - Global Mental Health. Dr. Bolea has extensive experience in clinical psychiatry in diverse contexts having worked on both sides of the Atlantic. She has a PhD on maternal and child health (Bristol, UK) and a master’s degree on affective neuroscience (Maastricht, Holland). She has contributed to clinical guidelines in the UK and continental Europe . She has published on psychiatry epidemiology and psychopharmacology. She works on the Telepsychiatry Service at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) and at Women’s College Hospital (WCH) in Toronto (Canada). She is an assistant professor at the University of Toronto and a fellow at WCH’s Institute for Health systems Solutions and Virtual Care.

• Foreword.- Introduction.- Differences in prevalence of mental health with the inclusion of diversity, gender and lifespan.- Diversity and lifespan.- Woman, gender and diversity.- Diversity and gender differences in treatment.- Global Mental health - services and access to care.- Mental Health/GMH prevention & promotion with the inclusion of diversity & gender.- Governance, diplomacy, and politics.- Conclusion.