Local action, regional transformation: WHO Pan-European Mental Health Coalition Meeting
23.11.2022 - 24.11.2022
WHO/Europe held the second meeting of its Pan-European Mental Health Coalition on 23–24 November 2022 in Ankara, Turkey, jointly hosted with the fourth Annual Conference on Social Inclusion of Persons with Mental Disabilities. Held in hybrid format, the conference aimed to leverage regional momentum and continue advocating for the necessary actions to improve mental health systems across the WHO European Region.
Subtitled “Local action, regional transformation”, the second Coalition meeting brought together government representatives; professionals working at the local, national and regional levels; people living with mental health conditions; academics; and others, to share good practice examples in national contexts and continue the development of the Coalition’s key priority areas.
EBC, as a member of the pan-European Mental Health Coalition, was pleased to participate in the meeting.
Dr Hans Henri P. Kluge, WHO Regional Director for Europe, connected from Ukraine, opening the WHO Pan-European Mental Health Coalition Meeting.
Petr Winkler, Director of the National Institute of Mental Health (Czech Republic) and one of the experts involved in the Value of Treatment case study on schizophrenia, met with Vinciane Quoidbach, Research Project Manager at EBC.