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Section Board
Anita RIECHER-RÖSSLER, Chair
Joanna RYMASZEWSKA, Co-Chair
Michaela AMERING, Secretary
Vivette GLOVER, Member
Carla MARTINO, Member
Mission
Objectives of the section:
- Enhance attention to gender-sensitive aspects of psychiatric research, education, treatments, and services
- Promote and support research into gender and sex differences in all fields of scientific expertise
- Foster the inclusion of women in psychiatric research and gender-sensitive handling of data
- Encourage research topics of special needs and interest to women over the lifespan and women in different contexts and living situations
- Improve education and training about gender-specific psychiatric knowledge
- Disseminate information on topics pertinent to women’s mental health
- Advance the development of gender-based effective psychopharmacological, psychotherapeutic, and psychosocial treatments ad women-friendly services
- Share information of different practices and legislation in different parts of Europe
- Fight stigma and discrimination of women
- Strengthen women’s empowerment, resilience, and positive mental health
- Aspire to gender parity in the professional fields of research, practice, education and leadership roles in European psychiatry
The section’s activities towards achieving its mission include:
- Presentation of information and activities pertinent to its mission within the EPA’s organizational bodies, meetings, and publications
- Collaboration with other EPA sections
- Collaboration with the WPA section of women’s mental health
- Networking with other organizations, with a focus on women’s issues within medicine and mental health, such as the Marcé Society and the International Association for Women’s Mental Health (IAWMH)
- Organisation of scientific and educational symposia, meetings, and curricula