1st Mental Health Forum
Hosted by Ukraine

Moving Towards Mental Health System & Services of the Future: Case of Building Back and Forward Better in Ukraine

October 18-20, 2023

Program of the Forum

Time (GMT+2)

Topic

Hall

8:30 - 10:00

Registration

Main Hall

10:00 - 10:30

Opening

Main Hall

Welcoming panel

Speakers Iryna Vereshchuk
Vice Prime Minister - Minister for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine

Viktor Liashko
Minister of Health of Ukraine

Jarno Habicht
WHO Representative, Head of the WHO Country Office in Ukraine

Katarina Mathernova
EU Ambassador, Head of the EU Delegation to Ukraine (TBC)

Denise Brown
UN Resident & Humanitarian Coordinator in Ukraine

Robin Martz
USAID Ukraine Health Office Director

Main Hall

11:00 - 11:30

Coffee break and networking

11:30 - 11:50

All-Ukrainian Mental Health Program initiated by First Lady of Ukraine Olena Zelenska

Speaker Oksana Zbitnieva
Head of the Coordination Center for Mental Health under the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine

Main Hall

11:50 - 12:20

Global and European frameworks informing mental health systems and services of the future: key ingredients of success

Speakers Devora Kestel 
Director Department of Mental Health and Substance Use WHO Headquarters

Ledia Lazeri
Regional Adviser Mental Health Flagship WHO Regional Office for Europe

Main Hall

12:20 - 12:50

A case of integration of mental health services into primary health care in Ukraine

Speakers Iryna Mykychak
Director for Coordination of Central and Executive Authorities
Coordination Center for Mental Health Advisor to the Prime Minister of Ukraine

Nataliia Husak
Head of the National Health Service of Ukraine (NHSU)

Video: Partners engagement in scaling up integrated mental health services in primary health care in Ukraine

Main Hall

12:50 - 13:50

Lunch and networking

13:50 - 14:10

What can be realistically done in primary health care: Reflections of a family doctor - TED Talks format

Speakers Ihor Zastavnyi and Anastasiia Khodan
(Academy of Family Medicine of Ukraine)

Main Hall

14:10 - 14:30

Countries’ examples and reflections on integrated mental health services (being developed during reforms or/and emergency response)

Speakers Simon Vasseur-Bacle
Lille-Métropole Public Mental Health Establishment, WHO CC, France

Petr Winkler
Director of the National Institute of Mental Health, Czechia (NIMH CZ)

Main Hall

14:30 - 15:30

Panel discussion: Specialist community mental health services: outreach multidisciplinary teams in focus

Moderated by Cassie Redlich
WHO Regional Office for Europe

Speakers
Alisa Ladyk-Bryzghalova
Mental Health Programme Lead
WHO Country Office in Ukraine

Anna Koba
Psychiatrist and lead of CMHT in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine

Iryna Filip
Psychiatric nurse, Chernivtsi, Ukraine

Oleksii Skripachenko
Expert by experience, CMHTs service user, Vinnytsia, Ukraine

Tetyana Gordienko
Psychologist of CMHT, Vinnytsia, Ukraine

Main Hall

15:30 - 16:00

Community-level support and services introduced as a part of emergency response

Speakers Alyona Gerasimova
USAID Project "Public Health Systems Recovery and Resilience" (PHS R&R)

Anna Didenko
Head of the rehabilitation and support department of the Ukrainian Red Cross

Olena Doroshenko
Sr. Economist (Health)
World Bank

Volodymyr Korostiy
MHPSS Coordinator
MdM-Greece in Ukraine

Main Hall

16:00 - 16:30

Coffee break and networking

16:30 - 17:20

Panel discussion: Coordination of emergency response and a network of mental health services

Moderated by Fahmy Hanna
Co-chair of the IASC MHPSS Reference Group, hosted by WHO Headquarters

Speakers
Oksana Zbitnieva
Head of the Coordination Center for Mental Health under the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine

Alisa Ladyk-Bryzghalova
Chair of the MHPSS TWG Ukraine, hosted by WHO

Bernard Jacob
Federal Coordinator of Mental Health Care Reforms, Belgium

Renet van der Waals
Coordinator Humanitarian Policies and Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in crises
Coordinator Ukraine for Stabilisation and Humanitarian Aid Department Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Netherlands

Main Hall

17:20 - 17:40

Presentation “Future of Mental Health in Ukraine”: Scientific perspective in a non-scientific language. The Lancet Commission

Irina Pinchuk
Director of the Institute of Psychiatry of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
Vice-President of the Ukrainian Psychiatric Association

Evidence for investing in mental health

James Sale
Director of Policy and Advocacy
United for Global Mental Health

Main Hall

17:40 - 17:50

Summary and closure of the day.
Briefing on the Day 2 and Day 3

Main Hall

Please note that only participants who have received confirmation of in-person participation in the Forum can register for in-person participation in the sections

Time (GMT+2)

Topic

Hall

08:30-10:00

Meditation & Mindfulness station

Facilitated by Vyacheslav Gutsalyuk
Yoga trainer

Galyna Naumenko
Bogomolets National Medical University
Trainer and supervisor on WHO psychological interventions

Hall 3

09:30-17:30

Networking & “Marketplace” presentations

Main Hall

09:30-10:30

“Have an important call” space

Hall 1

09:30-10:30

“Check my emails” space

Hall 2

10:30-11:30

Mental health services in primary health care

Part 1
Facilitated debates: Reflections of the first year of introduced mental health services in primary health care in Ukraine and the way forward
Facilitated by
Vladyslav Odrynskyi
USAID Health Reform Support
Speakers

Olha Turyanska
Outpatient Clinic of Family Medicine "Value"

Serhii Horishchak
Municipal Non-profit Enterprise
Children's City Polyclinic №6
Odesa City Council


Closing remarks
Simon Vasseur-Bacle
Lille-Métropole Public Mental Health Establishment, WHO CC, France

Olena Vincent
Expert by experience
Mental Health for Ukraine (MH4U)

Hall 1

10:30-11:30

Mental health services in specialist settings

Part 1
Case presentations of Community Mental Health Teams (CMHTs) service users & providers: How mental health care should look like, how it can lead to recovery, and how this means different things to different people
Moderated by
Ahmed Hankir
MBChB MRCPsych 
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Western University, Canada

Alisa Ladyk-Bryzghalova
Mental Health Programme Lead
WHO Country Office in Ukraine

Speakers

Case 1: CMHT Lviv

Mariia Goroshko, nurse

Oksana Viontsek, psychologist

Anna Kukhar, psychiatrist

Tetiana Rybak, social worker

Galyna Vergun, expert by experience

Yurii Dzubynskii, expert by experience

Katerina Stovba, expert by experience

Case 2: CMHT Chernivtsy

Dmytro Stoyan, psychiatrist

Maryana Bien, psychologist

Galina Dovga, nurse

Closing remarks

Devora Kestel
Director Department of Mental Health and Substance Use
WHO Headquarters

Hall 2

10:30-11:30

Community-based services introduced during emergency response

Facilitated by
Fahmy Hanna
Co-chair of the IASC MHPSS Reference Group, hosted by WHO Headquarters

Kateryna Krizhik
MHPSS TWG Ukraine

Closing remarks

Renet van der Waals
Coordinator Humanitarian Policies and Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in crises
Coordinator Ukraine for Stabilisation and Humanitarian Aid Department Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Netherlands

For the purposes of this workshop the participants are kindly invited to learn about the services/interventions/supports presented at the “Marketplace” and the Roadmap “Ukrainian Prioritized MHPSS Actions During and After the War” beforehand.

Hall 3

50 seats

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11:30-12:00

Coffee break and networking

12:00-14:00

Part 2
Workshop: A role of primary health care in facilitating access to available community-based services and resources in the interest of patient’s wellbeing

For the purposes of this workshop the participants are kindly invited to learn about the services/interventions/supports presented at the “Marketplace” beforehand Facilitated by
Orest Suvalo
Mental Health for Ukraine (MH4U)

Oleg Shults
WHO consultant on integrated mental health services

Closing remarks
Bernard Jacob
Federal Coordinator of Mental Health Care Reforms, Belgium

Moderators of the groups
Iryna Yavorska (FHI 360), Yulia Okhmat (IMC), Olga Klymovska (NGO “Proliska”), Volodymyr Korostiy (MdM-Greece), Alina Kobets (Pact), Ihor Zastavnyi (AFMU), Anastasiia Khodan (AFMU),
Anna Morvanyuk (WHO)


After the workshop, the participants are invited to join the Panel discussion “Transformation of public mental health services at times of crises”.

Hall 1

60 seats

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12:00-14:00

Part 2
Workshop: Threats and opportunities for specialist community-based mental health services and the way forward

For the purposes of this workshop the participants are kindly invited to learn about the services/interventions/supports presented at the “Marketplace” beforehand Facilitated by
René Keet
Directeur FIT-academy
GGZ Noord-Holland-Noord, The Netherlands
The European Community based Mental Health Service Providers (EUCOMS) Network

Anna Koba
Psychiatrist and lead of CMHT in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine

After the workshop, the participants are invited to join the Panel discussion “Transformation of public mental health services at times of crises”.

Hall 2

60 seats

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12:00-14:00

Continuation
Workshop: From a roadmap towards a programme. Sustaining capacity of community-based services built during emergency response and considerations for their integration with country`s mental health system

After the workshop, the participants are invited to join the Panel discussion “Transformation of public mental health services at times of crises”.

Hall 3

14:00-15:00

Lunch and networking

15:00-16:30

Panel discussion: Transformation of public mental health services at times of crises

Moderated by Oksana Zbitnieva
Head of the Coordination Center for Mental Health under the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine

Speakers

Expert by experience
Ganna Legkova
MHPSS Coordinator
Medicos del Mundo

Vladyslav Odrynskyi
USAID Health Reform Support

Oksana Boyko
Head of MA in Social Work Program, Head of the Department School of Social Work National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kyiv, Ukraine

Oleksii Kostiuchenkov
WHO Consultant
Psychiatrist of CMHT until 2022

René Keet
Directeur FIT-academy
GGZ Noord-Holland-Noord, The Netherlands The European Community based Mental Health Service Providers (EUCOMS) Network

Participants of the three groups having workshops in Hall 1, Hall 2 and Hall 3 on specialized and primary mental health services as well as sustainable MHPSS are expected to join.

Hall 1

120 seats

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15:00-16:30

Training station: Self-help strategies

Facilitated by Galyna Naumenko
Bogomolets National Medical University
Trainer and supervisor on WHO psychological interventions

Hall 3

50 seats

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16:30-17:00

Coffee break and networking

17:00-17:30

Presentation: Communication campaign for promotion and increasing usage of mental health services in primary health care

Representative of the Coordination Center for Mental Health under the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.

Hall 1

120 seats

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17:00-17:30

“Check my emails” & “Have an important call” space

Hall 3

Please note that only participants who have received confirmation of in-person participation in the Forum can register for in-person participation in the sections

Time (GMT+2)

Topic

Hall

10:00-12:00

Networking & Interactive zone - immersion exercise

Main Hall

10:00-12:00

Session: Human rights and inclusion of people with cognitive, intellectual, and psychosocial disabilities

Orientation in WHO’s QualityRights initiative and partner engagement Moderated by
Ledia Lazeri
Regional Adviser
Mental Health Flagship
WHO Regional Office for Europe

Ahmed Hankir
MBChB MRCPsych 
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Western University, Canada

Tetiana Lomakina
Advisor - President's Commissioner for Barrier-Free Environment

Hall 1

60 seats

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10:00-12:00

Session: Youth mental health and wellbeing in times of crisis

Moderated by Youth Representative (tbc)

Speakers

Youth Representative (tbc)

Kateryna Bulavinova
UNICEF Health Specialist

Cassie Redlich
Technical Officer
Mental Health Flagship
World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe

Hall 2

60 seats

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10:00-12:00

Master class for mental health service providers: Practical evidence-based decision making in mental health care policy and practice

Petr Winkler
Director of the National Institute of Mental Health, Czechia (NIMH CZ)

Hall 3

50 seats

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12:00-13:00

Lunch & Closure of the Forum

Main Hall

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