Reports from The Lancet Standing Commission on the mental health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic
Date: Thursday 26 June
Time: 2.40pm - 3.55pm
Overview
The Lancet Psychiatry and MQ, a mental health research charity, convened a panel of experts during Q1 2020 to consider the research priorities arising from the COVID-19 pandemic. This group evolved into an interdisciplinary, global, three-year standing commission including people with lived experience to report on the extent to which research priorities were met, to examine the results and implications of the emergent research, and to make recommendations for future research regarding COVID and other emergent pandemic emergencies.
This session includes the conclusions in the public health, policy implications, and the neuropsychiatric sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection.
In this session you will:
Understand the balance between quality of evidence and strength of conclusions at different stages of disaster response
Learn about the findings regarding mental health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health
- Reflect on personal and organisational responses to public and clinical mental health care during the pandemic from the point of view of future planning
Speakers
Chair: Professor Peter B. Jones, University of Cambridge, Cambridge
Mental health after the COVID-19 pandemic: policy and public health
Professor Etheldreda Nakimuli-Mpungu, Makerere University, Makerere, Uganda
The implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic for clinical mental health care
Ms Alexandra M. Schuster, University of Cambridge, Cambridge
Neurobiological effects of the COVID-19 pandemic
Dr Maxime Taquet, University of Oxford, Oxford
Please email congress@rcpsych.ac.uk or call 020 8618 4120 with any enquiries.