Since the 1980s, we have organised over 20 section congresses around the world, covering relevant and timely topics spanning from clinical practice to research. This includes our 2014 meeting held in Nara, Japan – “Trauma and mental health” – which focused on the aftermath of the 2011 Fukushima Disaster. Our meetings include a plenary symposium, open poster sessions, brief oral presentations, and prizes. We always strive to invite influential speakers to our symposiums which are coherent with the annual theme. Some of the main presentations have been published in journals such as Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. Our 19th Congress, themed “Learning from diversities across the world: implications for psychiatric epidemiology” will take place in Marrakech, Morocco on 12-14 October 2022.
| Year | Theme | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Epidemiology of mental disorders across lifespan and development | New York, USA |
| 2016 | Psychiatric epidemiology meets genetics: the public heath consequence | Munich, Germany |
| 2012 | Mental health and urbanization: challenges of societies in transformation | Sao Paulo, Brazil |
| 2010 | Prediction is psychiatric epidemiology: from childhood and adolescents to adulthood | Lisbon, Portugal |
| 2008 | From epidemiology to mental health planning – rural psychiatry and mental health of First Nation | Saskatoon, Canada |
| 2006 | Epidemiology and medico economics | Brisbane, Australia |
| 2003 | Theory Evidence and psychiatric epidemiology | Paris, France |
| 2001 | The future of epidemiology | Baltimore, USA |
| 1999 | From epidemiology to clinical practice | Turku, Finland |
| 1997 | Unmet needs | Sydney, Australia |
| 1995 | A search for causes: epidemiological approaches | New York, USA |
| 1993 | The course and outcome in mental health disorders | Groningen, The Netherlands |
| 1991 | Psychiatric epidemiology and social sciences | Oslo, Norway |
| 1989 | Primary care and psychiatric epidemiology | Toronto, Canada |
| 1985 | The future of epidemiology | Edinburgh, UK |
| 1982 | The chronically mentally ill | Baltimore, USA |