Past Meetings and Events

Find summaries and recordings of past NIMH meetings and events. These events explore a range of mental disorders and discuss the latest mental health research.

• Director’s Innovation Speaker Series: The Opioid Crisis: Disrupting the Status Quo with the HEALing Communities Study
  February 14, 2023
  Virtual
  During this lecture, Sharon L. Walsh, Ph.D., will discuss how the HEALing Communities Study (HCS) is testing the prevention and treatment of opioid misuse in select communities hard hit by the opioid crisis.
• Health Economics at NIMH and NIDA – Domestic and International
  January 25, 2023
  Virtual
  This meeting will highlight health economics research supported by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).
• Director’s Innovation Speaker Series: Ecological Grief and Anxiety: A Healthy Response to Climate Change
  January 19, 2023
  Virtual
  During this talk, Ashlee Cunsolo, Ph.D., will discuss the profound, cumulative, and complex mental health outcomes of the climate crisis.
• Director’s Innovation Speaker Series: Transformative Research Requires Insider Researchers
  December 8, 2022
  Virtual
  During this talk, Leticia Márquez-Magaña, Ph.D., will discuss the importance of insider researchers–researchers who are members of the populations being studied–in biomedical and behavioral research.
• Center for Global Mental Health Research Webinar Series: Grants Management: Post Award
  November 16, 2022
  Virtual
  This webinar explains the post-award process and how to manage a grant once NIMH has awarded it.
• Director’s Innovation Speaker Series: HIV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 Effects on Brain and Mind Health: A Tale of Two Viruses
  November 9, 2022
  Virtual
  In a virtual fireside chat, Serena Spudich, M.D., M.A., and NIMH Director Joshua A. Gordon, M.D., Ph.D., will discuss the impact of HIV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 viruses on the central nervous system, similarities and differences in the pathology and clinical effects, and how this knowledge could inform research and interventions for SARS-CoV-2.
• Director’s Innovation Speaker Series: All of Us Research Program: Improving Health Through Innovative Technology, Large and Diverse Cohorts, and Precision Medicine
  October 27, 2022
  Virtual
  Joshua Denny, M.D., M.S., F.A.C.M.I., Chief Executive Officer of the National Institutes of Health’s All of Us Research Program, will discuss the program’s historic effort to collect and study data from one million or more people living in the United States.
• Center for Global Mental Health Research Webinar Series: Writing a Successful Individual Training Grant Application Focused on Global Mental Health
  October 26, 2022
  Virtual
  This webinar focuses on strategies for developing a successful individual training grant application.
• Center for Global Mental Health Research Webinar Series: Establishing an Independent Career in Global Mental Health Research
  September 28, 2022
  Virtual
  This webinar focused on establishing an independent career in global mental health research.
• NIMH Research Domain Criteria Roundtable - Data-Driven Refinement of Psychopathology: Toward Precision Diagnostics
  September 28, 2022
  Virtual
  This meeting will address two fundamental needs that could serve as a foundation for identifying meaningful clinical signatures.