World Psychiatric Association

SECTION ON MENTAL HEALTH ECONOMICS


INTRODUCTION

The Section on Mental Health Economics was established in 1998 by Massimo Moscarelli, M.D., a psychiatrist and Director of the Center for Mental Health Policy and Economics (Italy), and Agnes Rupp, Ph.D., a health economist of the National Institute of Mental Health/NIH (USA). The Section was given permanent status approval by the World Psychiatric Association in 1999.

 

MISSION STATEMENT

The principal aim of the Section is to encourage interdisciplinary research between psychiatrists, economists and other professionals in the mental health sector in order to enable a common language and scientific background between those who finance, provide and use services for mental and addictive disorders in the various countries of the world.

 

SECTION GOALS

  1. Promote the development of high quality international, interdisciplinary research, training and education in mental health economics.
  2. Provide clinicians scientific information on the economics of mental health to be used for decision making and advise health care financing policy formulation by demonstrating the needs of the mental health sector.
  3. Develop global communication networks among those who finance, provide and use services of mental and addictive disorders

 

SECTION COMMITTEE

 

Hodgkin, Dominic (USA) Chair

E-mail: hodgkin@brandeis.edu

Harangozó, Judit (Hungary) Co-Chair

E-mail: drharangozojudit@gmail.com

Moscarelli, Massimo (Italy) Secretary

E-mail: moscarelli@icmpe.org

 

Araya, Ricardo (Chile)

E-mail: arayari@cf.ac.uk

 

Dewa, Carolyn S. (USA)

Email: csdewa@ucdavis.edu

 

Domino, Marisa Elena (USA)

E-mail: domino@unc.edu

 

Duffy, Sarah (USA)

E-mail: duffys@nida.nih.gov

 

Ettner, Susan L. (USA)

E-mail: settner@grad.ucla.edu

 

French, Michael T. (USA)

E-mail: mfrench@miami.edu

 

Jacobs, Rowena (UK)

E-mail: rowena.jacobs@york.ac.uk

 

Keetharuth, Anju (UK)

E-mail: d.keetharuth@sheffield.ac.uk

 

Khalil, Afaf Hamed (Egypt)

E-mail: epa@click.com.eg

Olatawura, Michael (Nigeria)

 

Pincus, Harold Alan (USA)

E-mail: Harold.Pincus@nyspi.columbia.edu

 

Prot-Klinger, Katarzyna (Poland) Ex Officio  

E-mail: kasiaprot@gmail.com

 

Rupp, Agnes (USA) Ex Officio  

E-mail: rupp.agnes1976@gmail.com

 

Ruud, Torleif (Norway), Ex Officio  

E-mail: torleif.ruud@medisin.uio.no

Rytik, Ella (Russia), Ex Officio  

E-mail: rytik@list.ru

 

Salvador-Carulla, Luis (Australia)

E-mail: luis.salvador-carulla@anu.edu.au

 

Zechmeister-Koss, Ingrid (Austria)

E-mail: Ingrid.Zechmeister-Koss@aihta.at

 

Zuvekas, Samuel H. (USA), Ex Officio  

E-mail: Samuel.Zuvekas@ahrq.hhs.gov

 

 

PRINCIPAL ACTIVITIES

 

Workshops and Meetings at world and regional level enable participants (psychiatrists, psychologists, sociologists, health economists, public health researchers, statisticians, social workers from universities, government agencies, hospital research units) to come together and discuss research data and seek ways to use this information in decision making. Training and Educational Courses are developed by distinguished authorities in the field.

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

The Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics, a distinguished peer reviewed international journal, has been designated as the official journal of the Section on Mental Health Economics.

 

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

 

The first twenty-year history of the Section is described by former leaders of the Section in the June, 2020 issue of World Psychiatry on https://doi.org/10.1002/wps.20753

 

WEBSITE

 Scientific Sections of the WPA on www.wpanet.org and

 Section on Mental Health Economics on www.icmpe.org

 

 

SECTION SECRETERIAT

 

International Center of Mental Health Policy and Economics
Via Daniele Crespi 7
20123 Milano
Italy
E-mail: moscarelli@icmpe.org
Website www.icmpe.org

 

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