Maria Melchior

Santé publique

Collège de France

Année 2025-2026

Colloque - Mental Health and Addiction - Lisa Berkman: Social Determinants of Health in Adults: a life course perspective on the role of social networks and work policies

Session 4: Social Determinants of Mental Health over the Lifecourse

Lisa Berkman

Professor Harvard University, School of Public Health

Résumé

Social determinants of health play a major role in shaping population health and healthy aging. In this presentation we will focus on conditions in mid life particularly around working conditions and social isolation that lead to healthy population aging. Using a life course approach we focus on those conditions in mid life that predict successful aging in terms of physical and mental health.

Maria Melchior

Santé publique

Collège de France

Année 2025-2026

Colloque - Mental Health and Addiction - Eric Fombonne: What Is the Future of Psychiatric Epidemiology?

Session 4: Social Determinants of Mental Health over the Lifecourse

Eric Fombonne

Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, Oregon Health and Science University

Résumé

After briefly reviewing the history of psychiatric epidemiology and its major accomplishments in understanding child and adult psychopathology, we will discuss its current methodological challenges and the study designs and analytical strategies that are required to integrate the effects of genes, development and the social environment in their joint contribution to mental health and psychiatric illness.

Maria Melchior

Santé publique

Collège de France

Année 2025-2026

Colloque - Mental Health and Addiction - Marit Sijbrandij: New Directions in Mental Healthcare at the Population Level

Session 3: Adults

Marit Sijbrandij

Full professor Clinical Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Résumé

Recent global crises, including armed conflicts, natural disasters, and the COVID-19 pandemic, have led to substantial increases in mental health problems among affected populations. Individuals with refugee or migrant backgrounds are disproportionately exposed to these adversities while often facing significant barriers in accessing evidence based mental health care. In this presentation, Marit Sijbrandij will review evidence on scalable, low intensity psychological interventions delivered by trained non specialist providers to address symptoms of depression, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress disorder. She will highlight findings from studies conducted in both low- and middle-income countries and high income settings. Finally, she will discuss pathways for implementing these interventions at scale to improve mental health and daily functioning among populations experiencing adversity.