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WPA Okasha Award for Developiong Countries

WPA Okasha Award for Developiong Countries .

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WPA Okasha Award for Developiong Countries

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  1. WPA Okasha Award for Developiong Countries The Okasha Award recognizes young psychiatrists or neuroscientists whose research has best served psychiatry and mental health in developing and other countries with a shortage of resources, and who contributed to better international collaboration in psychiatry. This Award has been made possible through an unrestricted grant from APEX Pharma in Egypt.

  2. WPA Okasha Award for Developiong Countries The Executive Committee of the World Psychiatric Association acts as the jury for the Okasha Award. The award includes a diploma, a medal and a sum of USD 15,000 for each of the two winners.

  3. WPA Okasha Award for Developiong Countries: (1) The Winners • The EEPSI group (Eastern European Psychiatric Scientific Initiative) carried out a study* of mental health services which produced results useful for their organisation and demonstrated that scientific collaboration is possible even without significant external support and without political or institutional research infrastructure. * Published in the British Journal of Psychiatry 186(6), June 2005

  4. THE OKASHA AWARD:(1) THE WINNERS The Members of the EEPSI Group Maja Bajs, Croatia Tamara Cavic, Serbia & Montenegro Hristo Dimitrov, Bulgaria Diana Iosub, Romania Vesna Jordanova, United Kingdom Nadja Maric, Serbia & Montenegro Adriana Mihai, Romania Andreea Silvana Szalontay, Romania Alikaj Valbona, Albania

  5. WPA Okasha Award for Developiong Countries: (2) The Winners From Egypt, for their study on “Working with families of Patients with Schizophrenia: A Rewarding Alternative to Classical Community Care in Developing Countries”. The results of their study will be published shortly.

  6. WPA Okasha Award for Developiong Countries: (2)The Winners 1- Dr. Ahmed EL-SHAFEI, Egypt (Lecturer in Psychiatry) 2-Dr. Hanan HUSSEIN, Egypt (Lecturer in Psychiatry)

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