R&D Laboratory for Community Health

Expand network of International cooperation

Development, guideness, evaluation & teaching mental health practices; works with governmental agencies, NGOs & educational institutions; implements mental health and psychosocial support activities within the triangle of Government, Business, Civil sector

• Senior Research Fellow of Laboratory of Small Groups and Intergroup Relations Psychology
• Responsible for International cooperation
• Support Mental Health Care strategy development and implementation

Mental Health: Global Challenges Journal (ISSN 2612-2138) www.mhgcj.org is an open access peer-reviewed journal, whose main aim is to promote dialogue and debate on topics such as Mental Health, Mental Health Care Systems and etc. The journal especially encourages manuscripts which may be of interest to policy makers and/or practitioners.

The authors of MHGCJ represent wide geography: North America, Europe, Africa, Asia. MHGCJ is also available in National Library of Australia, several Universities of Australia, Ghent University (Belgium).

The Journal is indexing in DOAJI and else 9 scientific databases, and available on Publons (Clarivate Analytics) and CORE (repositories.id:14900) (The world’s largest collection of open access research papers). MHGCJ is part of CLOCKS community

We consider this Journal as the platform for dissemination of leading ideas and experience, for support of building academic networks, developing future collaborations between researchers across the different regions of the world. For this reason, we are organizing annual INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MENTAL HEALTH CARE “Mental Health: Global challenges of XXI century”. So we try to commute all main actors in the field of Mental Health, and publish their articles in our journal “Mental Health: global challenges”

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MENTAL HEALTH CARE “Mental Health: Global challenges of XXI century”. This conference covers emerging topics in Mental Health, including those related to mental health in relation to the military conflicts, internal and external migration, emerging issues in child neuropsychiatry, support of disabled people, MHC in rural areas, and several others. In 2017-2019, we successfully organized 3 editions of the International Conferences “Mental health: Global challenges of XXI century” (26-27 of October 2017; 25-26 of October 2018; 26-27 October 2019 (Lviv, Ukraine); 31 October – 02 November, 2019 (Bucharest, Romania)). According to the statistical monitoring results, there were participants from different countries (Algeria, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Cyprus, Greece, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Taiwan, Ukraine, United Kingdom, USA) on our Conference. Among our participants are Governmental Institutions, Directors and Presidents of the Institutions, Presidents of the Associations, Vice-Directors, Vice-Rectors, Deans of the Faculties, Heads of the Departments, Professors and Specialists. 

Among our Honorable Guests, Partners and Speakers were:   

• World Federation of Mental Health
• WHO
• International Medical Corps
• Red Cross Society
• Interdisciplinary Council on Development and Learning
• Médecins Sans Frontières
• EMDR Europe Association
• National Institute of Health (Italy)
• Balkan Universities Association
• Mental Health Reform, National Coalition for Mental Health in Ireland

More information is available on the website of the Conference www.mhgc21.org

We see this conferences not as temporal event, but as continuing act.

Thus, we organized several seminars and workshops in Ukraine:

• 27-28 October 2018 seminar of French Association of Arttherapy (firstly in Ukraine)
• 23-26 November 2018 seminar-training of US NAVY psychologist on psychotrauma
• 24 January 2019 National Round table meeting on rehabilitation of ex-combatants and their families
• 28 January (Zaporizhzhya) and 12-13 February 2019 (Kyiv) awareness-rising training on Mental Health
• 29-31 May 2019 – International Public-Scientific Initiative” Community: health, human potential, socio-economic innovations” (For example, our audience for Event was more than 2 600 participants)

We aim to rise the social awareness, facilitate social changes, support Governmental initiatives, develop qualitative skills of professionals. So we try to commute all main actors in the field of Mental Health.

We are aiming to join all main actors, all interested parties (Governmental Institutions, National and International Institutions, researchers, professionals, and policy-makers) together in these our activities in order to effectively develop cooperation in the field of MHC, facilitate social changes, allow social awareness to progress