Working with the World Psychiatric Association to promote dissemination of mental health research worldwide

The WPA Action Plan 2017‐2020

“…The WPA Executive Committee, chaired by President D. Bhugra, met at the Secretariat on July 17, 2016 and discussed various Association matters [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11] . The Planning…”

“…Working with journals and other publications in low-and middle-income countries. The WPA proposes re-establishing a task force on peer support for editors of psychiatric journals in lowand middle-income countries [2][3][4][5][6] . This initiative will enable editors who work in low resource and isolated situations to draw on support for their activities and to contribute to the work of others.…”

“…With the help of Member Societies, it aims to monitor and assist the use of the new online WPA Competency‐Based Curriculum for Mental Health Providers on Intimate Partner Violence and Sexual Violence Against Women, including the development and delivery of undergraduate, post‐graduate and continuing education curricula. Seeking partners to establish a multi‐disciplinary group, including psychiatrists and journalists, to foster good practice in the reporting of mental health and related topics in conflict and disaster situations. Working with journals and other publications in low‐ and middle‐income countries. The WPA proposes re‐establishing a task force on peer support for editors of psychiatric journals in low‐ and middle‐income countries. This initiative will enable editors who work in low resource and isolated situations to draw on support for their activities and to contribute to the work of others. Collecting information on psychiatrists’ demographic characteristics, training and practice, which is crucial for WPA to achieve its aims, for access to psychiatrists to be improved and for the profession to identify opportunities to collaborate.…”

Promoting editorial capacity in psychiatric journals in low and middle income countries (LAMIC)

“…1 Two recent surveys conducted in 2007 and 2009 by the WPA Taskforce on Research Dissemination identified the underrepresentation of psychiatric journals from LAMIC in the main international indexation databases. [2][3][4][5][6] In fact, only 5.5% of the 235 journals listed under the Psychiatry and Substance Abuse categories in Medline and Web of Science are from middle income countries, and none comes from a low income country. 3 In order to promote editorial capacity for LAMIC journals and thus enhance their chances of indexation, representatives from 5 non-indexed psychiatric journals -with a focus on Africa and Asia -participated in a workshop facilitated by members of the WPA Operational Committee on Publications -Helen Herrman, Jair Mari, Christian Kieling and Christopher P. Szabo, with Norman Sartorius, Zeping Xiao, Michael Phillips and Shekhar Saxena as discussants.…”

The role of the World Psychiatric Association in facilitating development of psychiatric publications from low- and middle-income countries

“…1 Subsequente a essa pesquisa, uma decisão foi tomada para facilitar ativamente o desenvolvimento de revistas científicas psiquiátricas em países de baixa e média renda, com o intuito de melhorar o seu potencial para a indexação em importantes bases de dados. 2 Com esse fim, uma série de workshops foram realizados em várias reuniões da WPA. 3,4 No 15º Congresso Mundial de Psiquiatria, realizado em Buenos Aires (setembro 2011), o terceiro workshop da série foi organizado pelo programa de Publicações da WPA, 3,4 com o objetivo, nesse caso, de avaliar e prestar orientação às revistas psiquiátricas sul-americanas com potencial para a indexação em bancos de dados como Medline e Web of Science SM (antigo, Institute for Scientific Information®).…”