10GCHP

Soumitra Pathare

Director, Centre for Mental Health Law and Policy, Indian Law Society, India

Dr Soumitra Pathare is a consultant psychiatrist, and the Director of the Centre for Mental Health Law & Policy, Indian Law Society, Pune, India. His primary interests are in the areas of suicide prevention, mental health policy, scaling up mental health services, rights-based care, and legislation.

In the past, he has provided technical assistance to the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India, in drafting India’s Mental Healthcare Act 2017, which takes a rights-based approach to mental healthcare. He was also a member of the Mental Health Policy Group appointed by the Government of India to draft India’s first National Mental Health Policy released in October 2014.

He has conceptualised & steered various innovative community-led mental health interventions and strongly believes all persons with mental illness should be able to fully participate in society, as everyone else!

Speakers

Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

Director-General, World Health Organization

H.E. Carlos Alvarado Quesada

President of Costa Rica

H.E. Sun Chunlan

Vice Premier of the People’s Republic of China

Hon Grant Robertson

Deputy Prime Minister, New Zealand

H.E Alfredo Enrique Borrero Vega

Vice President of Equador

His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai

H. E. Dr Lotay Tshering

Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Bhutan

Dr Mathias Cormann

Secretary-General, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Mr Martin Chungong

Secretary General, Inter-Parliamentary Union

Prof. Ilona Kickbusch

The founding director and chair of the Global Health Centre and the Co-Chair of a project on a pandemic treaty at the Geneva Graduate Institute

Dr Zsuzsanna Jakab

Deputy Director General of WHO, Geneva

Dr Rüdiger Krech

Director, Department of Health Promotion, WHO

Hannah Vaughan Jones

Emmy-nominated journalist, broadcaster, writer and host.

H.E. Khaled Abdel-Ghaffar

Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Acting Minister of Health, Arab Republic of Egypt

Dr Faten Ben Abdelaziz

Head of the Enhanced Well-being Unit in the Department of Health Promotion at the World Health Organization Headquarters

Sandro Galea

MD, DrPH, Dean and Robert A. Knox Professor at the Boston University School of Public Health, USA

Mark Kojo Atuahene

Acting Head of Public Health and Health Promotion Unit of the Ministry of Health

Professor Marco Ackerman

Faculdade de Saúde pública da USP, and CEPEDOC , Brazil

Dra Alejandra Acuña

Executive Secretary Health Ministries Council of Central America, Dominican Republic

Dr Supreda Adulyanon

Chief Executive Officer, ThaiHealth Promotion Foundation

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