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Objectives:

• Through international collaboration and networks, to promote research into:
  • The social, economic, ethical, legal, cultural, psychological and biological factors, which affect Women's Mental Health
  • Women's roles in marriage, family and society, and the effects on mental health
  • The causes, effects and elimination of domestic violence and abuse of women
  • The causes, treatment and prevention of mental diseases or disorders that are specific, more prevalent, more severe or have different risk factors or outcomes in women
  • Gender-specific effects of treatment.
  • Basic sciences pertinent to gender difference and female biology
• Together with Societies and Sections, to act as international advocates for Women's Mental Health, for:
  • The elimination of conditions that are harmful to Women's Physical and Mental Health
  • Improved education and autonomy for women.
  • Better medical education and public information about Women's Mental Health
  • Increasing the number, status, education and resources of Women's Mental Health providers
  • The appropriate representation of women in research, education and organizations concerned with Women's Mental Health
  • Control by women of their personal fertility

1. 3-nd World Congress on Women's Mental Health: "Opening Minds to Women's Mental Health" March 17-20, 2008: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Keynotes:

• Gender Inequities in the Global Village: The International Women's Mental Health Consensus Statement and Our Role at the U.N
  • Donna Stewart, MD, Ontario Women's Health Council; President, International Association of Women's Mental Health; Chair, Section of Women's Mental Health, World Psychiatric Association
• Topic: Social Determinants of Women's Mental Health
  • Marta Rondon, Obstetrics Critical Care Unit, Edgardo Rebagliati Martins Hospital; Assistant Professor, Departamento de Psiquiatría, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia [UPCH], Lima, Perú; Chair, Section of Women's Mental Health, World Psychiatric Association
• Culturally-Sensitive Diagnosis of Affective Disorders in Women
  • Uriel Halbreich, MD, BioBehavioral Program, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, State University of New York [SUNY] at Buffalo, USA
• Estrogens and Women's Mental Health
  • Anita Riecher-Rössler, MD, Professor of Psychiatry and Head, Psychiatrische Universitätspoliklinik, Universitätskliniken, Kantonsspital Basel, Switzerland
• Neurobiology of Postnatal Depression
  • Inga Neumann, PhD, Lehrstuhl für Biologie II (Neurobiologie und Tierphysiologie), Department of Molecular and Behavioural Neuroendocrinology, Institute of Zoology, University of Regensburg, Germany
• Maternal Mental Health: Finding the Key To Prevention of Mental Ill Health for Women and Children
  • Anne Buist Australia, Director of Women's Mental Health, Austin Health – Northpark Private Hospital; Professor,University of Melbourne, Australia
• Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder: Diagnosis And Treatment Options
  • Teri Pearlstein, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA; Treasurer, International Association for Women's Mental Health; Secretary-Treasurer, North American Society for Psychosocial Obstetrics and Gynecology
• Menopause, Sexuality And Mood
  • Lorraine Dennerstein, Foundation Director, Office for Gender and Health; Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, Australia
• Menopause
  • Susan R Davis, MBBS, FRACP, PhD, Director,National Health and Medical Research Council Centre of Clinical Research Excellence in Women's Health; Professor of Women's Health, Monash University, Victoria, Australia
• Depression - Influence of Gender and Menopausal Status
  • Susan G. Kornstein, MD, Executive Director, Mood Disorders Institute; Executive Director, Institute for Women's Health; Director of Clinical Research and Professor of Psychiatry and Obstetrics and Gynecology, Department of Psychiatry, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
• Psychotic Disorders
  • Jayashri Kulkarni, Professor of Psychiatry, Alfred and Monash University, Australia
• Women's Mental Health in the Face of Disaster
  • Unaiza Niaz, MD, DPM, FRC Psych, Director, Psychiatric Clinic & Stress Research Center Karachi; President and Founder Member, Pakistan Society of Truamatic Stress Studies
• Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Women
  • Mark Creamer, Director, Australian Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health; Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, Australia
• The Interface of Psychiatry and Primary Care
  • Meir Steiner, MD, PhD, FRCPC, McMaster University; University of Toronto
• Psychiatric Aspects of Cancer in Women
  • Fiona Judd, Professor/Director, Centre for Women's Mental Health, Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
• One Tough Mother: The Advent of Altered Maternal Neurobiology for the Care and Protection of the Offspring
  • Craig H Kinsley, Professor of Neuroscience and MacEldin Trawick Chair in Neuroscience, University of Richmond

(This kindly contributed by: Michelle Monaghan on 21 JUN 06.)