Welcome to the 22nd WCP Congress Program Scheduling

This symposium aims to reflect upon success of institutionalizing mental health care in three important areas; clinical services, education and research, in three different geographical settings with variant resources, to reach a communal goal of improvement in the mental health care. In first presentation, journey of establishment of quality clinical services will be presented explaining how an institution Sidra medicine was set up in a high-income country, that had limited child, adolescent and perinatal psychiatric services. It commenced provision of perinatal and pediatric psychiatry services with tremendous growth in education, training and research. It also became forerunner with the world’s first and only ACGMEI accredited child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship and emerged as WPA Collaborating Center. In second presentation, the significance of global research pertinent to mental health will be highlighted, sharing an example from a lower-middle income country where despite scarcity of resources, a public health institution navigated innovatively to generate new knowledge and search for evidences in mental health. It emerged as an international research hub, geared to secure competitive funding and conduct collaborative global mental health research. In the last presentation, expansion of clinical, education and research services will be highlighted from one of the rural states in USA. In this institution, there has been a tremendous growth in ambulatory and emergency psychiatric services. New adult psychiatry residency program and addiction medicine program was established along with innovative research in pediatric neuro-imaging. This program is also a hub for workforce development across all licensed behavioral health professions.