Plenary Presentations 2021

The following presentations from Uppsala Health Summit's plenary sessions are available for download. Please find Videos from all sessions here! 

Plenary Session 1: The big picture

• Dr Ledia Lazeri, WHO Europe Regional Advisor, Mental Health
  Key Note Address
• Benjamin Perks, Head of Campaigns and Advocacy at UNICEF, New York
  Key Note Address

Plenary Session 2 – Towards a new understanding of mental health and wellbeing

• Dr Christian Rück, Professor, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Author.
  Can we get out of the neurotic threadmill
• Dr Vikram Patel, Professor of Global Health, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
  Acting Early: From Developmental Science to Scalable Prevention
• Dr Dixon Chibanda, Associate Professor, Cenre for Global Mental Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK. 
  Towards positive mental health and wellbeing: Lessons from Friendship Bench Zimbabwe 

Plenary Session 3: Innovative strategies for closing the treatment gap

• Dr Andy Blackwell, Chief Scientific Officer, IESO Digital Health, UK
  Rethinking the role of technology in improving access and quality in mental healthcare
• Dr Paul Farrand, Professor, University of Exeter, UK
  Reimagining Support for Low-Intensity CBT: The Promise of AI 
• Dr Gerhard Andersson, Professor, Linköping University, Sweden
  Psychological internet treatments work and can be exported to other cultures and languages
• Dr Andrea M. Beetz, Professor, IU International University of Applied Sciences, Germany
  Benefits of Human-Animal Interactions for Mental Health and Wellbeing

Plenary Session 4 - Social Media and Adolescent Mental Health

• Dr Nick Allen, Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Oregon, USA
  Digital pragmatism: How can we use social media and digital devices to support adolescent mental health?
• Dr Jacqueline Nesi, Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown University, USA
  Rethinking Adolescent Social Media Use and Mental Health: Risks, Benefits, and Opportunities
• Dr Madeleine George, Public Health Research Analyst at RTI International, Durham North Carolina, USA
  Adolescents in the digital age: technology use, wellbeing, and parenting​

Plenary Session 5: Pathways to lifelong mental wellbeing

• Dr Christian Benedict, Associate Professor in Neuroscience, Uppsala University, Sweden
  A sleep-deprived society: A brief wake-up call! 
• Dr Catharine Ward Thompson, Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Edinburgh, UK 
  Healthy green space and inclusive landscapes: the salutogenic environment
• Dr Steven C. Hayes Nevada Foundation Professor at the University of Nevada, Reno, Founder of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), USA
  Isn’t That Tweet