~World Mental Health Day Report 1999~
UNITED NATIONS
UN NY
At United Nations headquarters in New York, the NGO Committee on Mental Health (chaired by WFMH Main Representative Nancy Wallace) and the NGO Committee on Ageing collaborated with the New York office of WHO and the UN Department of Public Information to present a three-hour World Mental Health Day program on Culture, Society and Depression. The panel of speakers included Claudio Mirando, the new Regional Mental Health Advisor at the Pan American Health Organization; Kua Ee Heck, head of the Department of Psychological Medicine at the National University of Singapore; and Mary Guardino, chair of the Global Alliance of Mental Illness Advocacy Networks. Pharmacia & Upjohn supported the event.