Health and Global Policy Institute (HGPI) held the Advisory Board Meeting on “Promotion of the Integrated Community Care System for Mental Disorders.”

HGPI recognizes that mental health policy spans an extremely wide range of disease fields and involves many stakeholders. We are also aware that we must take the lives of those most affected, clinical practices, and front-line academic research into account while considering how to best formulate mental health policy. As such, our mental health policy project will establish an advisory board that includes people affected by mental disorders, opinion leaders and related organizations from industry, Government, academia, and civil society from Japan and abroad, and other existing stakeholders. At the request of the project team, advisory board members will provide advice and recommendations. Please note that our reports and proposals do not represent the opinions of any particular advisory board member. Instead, they are compiled according to advice and recommendations received from the advisory board or are based on advisory board discussions.

At this advisory board meeting, while referring to a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Committee report published in March of this year called “Building the Integrated Community Care System for Mental Disorders,” we discussed issues in promoting the Integrated Community Care System for Mental Disorders and areas that should be addressed by multi-stakeholders in industry, Government, academia, and civil society.

Due to the circumstances regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, this meeting was held online.

■Overview
Date & Time: Thursday, June 10, 2021
Organizer: Health and Global Policy Institute

■Program
Keynote Lecture “The Committee for “Building the Integrated Community Care System for Mental Disorders.””
Hisaya Tomori (Assistant Director, Mental Health and Disability Health Division, Department of Health and Welfare for Persons with Disabilities, Social Welfare and War Victims’ Relief Bureau, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare)

“HGPI’s Mental Health Policy Project FY2021 Plan”
Shunichiro Kurita (Manager, HGPI)

Discussion

■Advisory Board Members and Observers (Titles omitted, alphabetical order by last name)
Members:
Toshiaki A. Furukawa (Professor, Department of Health Promotion and Human Behavior, Health Issues Course, Graduate School of Medicine and Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University)
Natsuko Hagiwara (Chairperson, Japan NPO Center (JNPOC))
Kenjiro Horiai (YPS Yokohama Peer Staff Association)
Nobuaki Igarashi (Executive Director, Institute of Japan Mental-health Peer-support-training)
Tomoyuki Ishii (Director, Japan Psychiatric Hospitals Association)
Yoko Kamio (Representative Director, General Incorporated Association Specialized Center of Developmental Disorders; Director, Development Disorder Clinic, Yoko Kamio Institute for Developmental Disorders; Visiting Researcher, Early Intervention and Preventive Medicine Research Department, Department of Neuropsychopharmacology, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry; Visiting Professor, Institute for Education and Human Development, Fundamental Research Division of Human Development; Member of Section II (Life Sciences) of the Science Council of Japan)
Shigenobu Kanba (Honorary Professor, Kyushu University; Director, The Japanese Society of Psychiatry and Neurology)
Ryoma Kayano (Technical Officer, WHO Centre for Health Development)
Yoshiharu Kim (Director, National Institute of Mental Health)
Junko Kitanaka (Professor, Faculty of Letters, Keio University)
Yasuhiro Obata (Secretary-general, The National Federation of Associations of Families with The Mental Illness in Japan (Minna-net))
Akira Sawa (Chair, Department of Frontier & International Psychiatry, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University; Director, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, The Johns Hopkins Schizophrenia Center, The Johns Hopkins Hospital)
Hiroaki Tomita (Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University)
Ken Udagawa (Joint Director, Community Mental Health & welfare Bonding Organization)

MC & Moderator:
Shunichiro Kurita (Manager, HGPI)