Free Members’ Webinar: International Women’s Day 2026

Over the last decade, we've been rightly concerned about men's mental health. Men continue to take their own lives at three times the rate of women. However, women are suffering too, and the size and nature of the mental health problems and illness they experience seems to get lost beyond that desperate headline. Under a mental health policy that is largely 'gender-free' what has been happening to women? How are we failing them and what do we need to do about it?

We are delighted to be joined by speakers:

• Professor Linda Gask, Emerita Professor of Primary Care Psychiatry at the University of Manchester
• Dr Catherine Durkin, Joint Presidential Lead for Women and Mental Health
• Dr Philippa Greenfield, Joint Presidential Lead for Women and Mental Health
• Dr Yugisha Gurung, Specialty Doctor General Adult Psychiatry 
• Dr Priyadarshini Sur,  Presidential Scholar for Women and Mental Health 
• Dr Devika Patel, Presidential Scholar for Women and Mental Health 

Title: How we are failing women's mental health and what we must do about it

• Welcome: Dr Yugisha Gurung, Specialty Doctor General Adult Psychiatry. 
• Professor Linda Gask Emerita Professor of Primary Care Psychiatry at the University of Manchester
• Q&A and panel discussion:
  

1. Professor Linda Gask
2. Dr Catherine Durkin, Joint Presidential Lead for Women and Mental Health
3. Dr Philippa Greenfield, Joint Presidential Lead for Women and Mental Health
4. Dr Yugisha Gurung, Specialty Doctor General Adult Psychiatry
5. Dr Priyadarshini Sur,  Presidential Scholar for Women and Mental Health 
6. Dr Devika Patel, Presidential Scholar for Women and Mental Health