*Dear HIFA colleagues*,
It is exciting to announce the launch of the Mental Health Metadata Repository by the Mental Health Data Prize Africa Team, in partnership with *African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC)* and *Wellcome Trust*.
This is the first time Africa has a centralized platform that consolidates datasets on common mental illnesses like (depression, anxiety) and psychosis to support research, innovation, and evidence-based policy across the continent. Some of the advantages of the repository is that :
- It is tailored to African contexts.
- It is designed to enable data-driven insights.
- The platform datasets span multiple designs across a broad scope.
- The platform is open, enabling collaboration to maximize impact.
In a context of poor evidence ecosystem in mental health the repository marks a significant step in strengthening mental health research and enabling better decision-making by clearly outlining how its linked data can be accessed.
*Explore the repository:* https://lnkd.in/dS74UxNp
Best regards,
Didier Demassosso
HIFA Country Coordinator For WHO AFRO Region
HIFA Country Representative For Cameroon
HIFA Country representative of the year 2014
Mental Health Expert
HIFA profile: Didier Demassosso is a mental health practitioner, Consultant (WHO , MoPH Cameroon...), Mental health advocate , Youth advocate with 10 years experience in mental health development in Cameroon. He is also a health communicator and educationist. HIFA Country Representative For Cameroon/ HIFA Country Representative of the year 2014 / Regional Coordinator for Africa. He also currently volunteers for the Mental Health Innovation Network Africa as Knowledge Exchange Assistant. http://www.hifa.org/people/country-representatives/map
http://www.hifa.org/support/members/didier
Email: didier.demassosso AT gmail.com