A Global Framework for Youth Mental Health – the partnership between Birmingham and Melbourne panel discussion

The University of Birmingham is delighted to be an Official Partner of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games and the Official Global University Partner of the Queen’s Baton Relay. To celebrate our Global University Partner status we will be delivering events in collaboration with key partners in Australia as the Queen’s Baton Relay travels there in March 2022. As part of this the University of Birmingham and the University of Melbourne will co-host a panel discussion A Global Framework for Youth Mental Health – the partnership between Birmingham and Melbourne in which academic experts from both the University of Melbourne and the University of Birmingham will discuss the work of Orygen and the Institute for Mental Health, and how it can impact on young people and their families.  They will focus particularly on an international collaboration, funded by the European Commission and the awards of a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship to Dr Maria Michail, examining suicide in young people in both the UK and Australia. 

The panel, chaired by Professor Ed Wilding, Head of Psychology at the University of Birmingham, will comprise of two academic experts from the University of Birmingham and two from the University of Melbourne:  

• Matthew Broome, Professor of Psychiatry and Youth Mental Health and Director of the Institute for Mental Health, University of Birmingham
• Maria Michail, Associate Professor Institute for Mental Health, University of Birmingham
• Stephen Wood, Professor of Clinical Translational Neuroscience, and Associate Director Research at Orygen, University of Melbourne
• Jo Robinson, Associate Professor and Head of Suicide Prevention Research Orygen, University of Melbourne