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The Global Mental Health Initiative:A Whole of Government Approach to More Effective Engagement

Demand Signal for Military Mental Health Engagement

Limited Response Options

Lost Opportunity – Health Security Cooperation

“Strengthen Alliances and Attract New Partners”

Lost Opportunity – Readiness and Force Health Protection

“The military suicide rate in Taiwan is much lower when compared with that of the military personnel in other countries including America and Japan.” “Studies by Chinese researchers have repeatedly

shown that at least a quarter of PLA servicemen suffer from some sort of psychological problem –a number comparable to that of the U.S. military. However, the U.S. military has been a wartime army in active global conflict since 2001, while the PLA fought its last major war in 1979.”

“The Israeli Defense Force Suicide Prevention Program reduced suicide rates by almost 50% from 2006 to 2014.”

Extensive Resources

Extensive Resources

Extensive Resources

Extensive Resources

Extensive Resources

The Global Mental Health Initiative

Coordination

ResearchEngagement

The Global Mental Health Initiative

Research

Review of Past and Ongoing DoD/USG

Efforts in Global Mental Health

Review of Partner Nation Practices,

Programs, Studies and Results

Assist Partners in Research Design and

Evaluation of Practices and Programs

Incorporate New Evidence-Based

Practices Into DoD Programs

The Global Mental Health Initiative

Coordination

Create a Central Repository for Sharing Information, Tracking

Activities, and Gathering Lesson’s

Learned and New/Best-practices

Develop a Network of Global Mental Health

Stakeholders for Coordination,

Collaboration, and Identification/Sharing

of Resources

The Global Mental Health Initiative

Engagement

Work with Combatant Commands and Partner

Nations to Develop More Effective

Engagement Strategies in the Field of Mental Health

Utilize the Stakeholder Network to Align Activities and Enhance Sustainability

Share Lessons Learned and Best Practices with the DoD/USG

and Partner Nations

Timeline

Discussion w/ WRAIR

Discussion w/ NIMH

Presentation at APA

Presentation at COSC

Discussion w/ USU Centers

FEB 16 JUN 16 JUN 17MAY 17

SOUTHCOM Letter of Support

AUG 17 APR 18

PHCoE and USU Begin

Collaboration

NOV 18JUN 18 AUG 18 SEP 18

Inaugural Stakeholder’s

Meeting

Follow-up Stakeholder’s

Meeting

Work on MAX.gov Website Begins

Quarterly Stakeholder’s

Meeting

PHCoE Executes Playbook w/

Nepal

PHCoE Begins Work on BH

Playbook

Global Mental Health

Research Proposal

Submitted

OCT 18

Coordination

Engagement

Research

• Center for Deployment Psychology

• Center for Global Health Engagement

• Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress

• Defense Institute for Medical Operations

• Department of State

• Department of Veterans Affairs

• Directors of Psychological Health (Services)

• DoD HIV/AIDS Prevention Program

• Hearing Center of Excellence

• National Institute of Mental Health

• Peace Corps

• Psychological Health Center of Excellence

• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

• Uniformed Services University

• U.S. Agency for International Development

• AFRICOM

• CENTCOM

• EUCOM

• NORTHCOM

• INDOPACOM

• SOUTHCOM

• RHC-P

• Walter Reed Institute of Research

Global Mental Health Network Member Organizations

Central Repository

Contact Information

Global Mental Health Network Webpage:https://community.max.gov/display/DoD/Global+Behavioral+Health+Network

USU:Geoffrey J. Oravec, Lt Col, USAF, MCChief, Int'l Health AdvisorDeputy Under Secretary of the Air Force for International Affairs O: 571 256-7478C: 301 917-7781geoffrey.j.oravec.mil@mail.mil

PHCoE:Kate McGraw, PhDDeputy Division ChiefPsychological Health Center of Excellence J9/Defense Health AgencyO: 301 295-3526C: 240 706-4603kathy.l.mcgraw2.civ@mail.mil

References

1. Lee, Y., & Tzeng, D. (2018). Military Suicide among Taiwanese Soldiers: A Comparative Study. Journal of Medical Sciences, 38(1), 38-41.

2. Yang, Z. (2018, April 01). Are China’s Soldiers Psychologically Fit for Modern Wars? The Diplomat, (41).

3. Shelef, L., Laur, L., Raviv, G., & Fruchter, E. (2015). A military suicide prevention program in the Israeli Defense Force: a review of an important military medical procedure. Disaster and Military Medicine, 1(16).