PLASMA.
The Platform for Social Research on Mental Health in Latin America (PLASMA) aims to provide a space for reflection and collaboration between young researchers and scholars with an interest in mental health issues and policies in Latin America from a social science approach.
This is an interdisciplinary group, interested in analysing the position of Latin America in the current Global Mental Health agenda, and exploring the possibility of cross-cultural dialogue and mutual enrichment in mental health.
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The workshop Mapping new voices: towards a Latin American perspective in Global Mental Health aims to bring together PhD students and researchers whose work focuses on mental health in Latin America from a social perspective.
Specifically, the workshop aims are:
1. Exploring Latin Americas’ contemporary challenges and policy developments in the field of mental health.
2. Providing a space for the exchange of ideas about social research methodologies in the field of mental health research.
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3. Contributing to the critical discussion of the place and role of Latin America in the context of Global Mental Health as an area of study, discipline, and normative/political project.
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4. Serve as the starting point for the development of an international network of researchers with a focus on mental health in Latin America.
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Organizing committee
Gabriel Abarca (PhD student, King’s College London - Chile)
Sofía Bowen (PhD student, King's College London; Affiliated with MIDAP - Chile)
Elaine Flores (PhD student, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine/ UPCH - Perú)
Álvaro Jiménez (PhD student, Université Paris Descartes - Chile)
Claudio Maino (PhD student, Université Paris Descartes/Universidad de Chile - Chile)
Cristian R. Montenegro (PhD student, LSE; Young Researcher at MIDAP - Chile)
Felipe Szabzon (PhD student, Lisbon School of Public Health/EHESS - Brazil)
Norha Vera (PhD student, King’s College London - Colombia)
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Scientific committee
Marianella Abarzúa (lecturer in psychology, Universidad de Chile. Affiliated with MIDAP)
Betty Azócar (researcher, Médecins du Monde)
Dominique Béhague (senior lecturer in anthropology, King’s College London)
Catherine Campbell (professor, London School of Economics)
Alain Ehrenberg (professor, Université Paris Descartes / Director of the French National Mental Health Council)
Clara Han (associate professor, Johns Hopkins University)
Mariane Krause (professor, Universidad Católica de Chile. Director of MIDAP)
Samuel Lézé (associate professor, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon)
Anne Lovell (senior researcher, INSERM/Université Paris Descartes)
Eunice Nakamura (associate professor, Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo)
David Orr (associate professor, University of Sussex)
Esteban Radiszcz (associate professor, Universidad de Chile)
Livia Velpry (lecturer in sociology, Université Paris 8)
