Conference Structure
Conference Tracks & Themes
Thematic streams shaping dialogue, workshops, innovation, and stigma-related
learning across the conference.
Track 1
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Stigma Related to Mental Health Conditions, Including Caregiver Stigma
Focused on lived realities, caregiving burden, and associated mental health conditions.
- Caregiver burden and stigma
- Children of caregivers with mental health conditions
- Substance use disorders, dementia, personality disorders, and learning disabilities
Track 2
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Stigma Related to Workplace Stress, Gender and Sexual Minorities, and GBV Survivors
Addressing structural stigma, exclusion, and social realities across vulnerable groups.
- Gender-based violence related stress and stigma
- Addressing structural stigma
- Marginalized communities, including sexual minorities, and stigma
Track 3
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Drawing Lessons from Other Health Conditions to Inform Mental Health Stigma
Learning from other stigmatized conditions to strengthen stigma-related work in mental health.
- Learnings from other stigmatized health conditions such as TB, leprosy, HIV, etc.
- Implications of these learnings for stigma-related work in mental health
Track 4
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Workshops – Practical Implementation and Intervention Approaches
Applied methods, lived experience, and implementation-led learning.
- Centering lived experience, including presentations from lived experience groups
- Use of innovative methods for stigma reduction, including art forms, creative industry approaches, performance, music, and novel research methods
Track 5
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Role of Digital Technology and Stigma
Exploring digital platforms, online care, and media influence on mental health and stigma.
- Access to care and online care
- Use of digital media among children to promote positive mental health
- Role of media
Track 6
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UNICEF-Led Tracks
Focused streams led by UNICEF around children, intersectionality, and digital themes
- Digital Innovation to Reduce Stigma and Expand Awareness of Mental Health
- Gender-Based Violence, Intersectionality, and Stigma
- Children Living with Non-Communicable Diseases: Lived Experiences
Track 7
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WHO led track
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Deinstitutionalisation and its impact on community care
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People with lived experience engagement
Submission
General Submission Guidelines
- All presentations and posters must clearly outline the stigma component being addressed to be eligible.
- Abstracts for free papers, symposiums and posters must be submitted online in the prescribed format.
- The decision of the Scientific Committee will be final.
- If selected, registration by all presenters will be mandatory by the due date to be included in the final programme.
Presentation
Oral Free Paper / Symposium
- Abstracts must be structured: Introduction, Method, Result, Discussion.
- Total word count: 250 words.
- Names and primary affiliations of all presenters must be included.
- For symposiums, at least 3 presenters are required.
- Please indicate the most relevant track and theme.
- These time limits must not be exceeded.
Technical
Presentation Technical Requirements
Oral presentations should be uploaded to the submission system. Accepted file formats are
.pdf and .ppt / .pptx. Official templates may be used, though they are not mandatory.
- All main content slides should use the same layout throughout, except image or graph slides.
- Slides should be prepared in 16:9 widescreen format.
- Use sans serif fonts only such as Arial, Tahoma, or Microsoft Sans Serif.
- Presentations should follow the same structure as the abstract.
At Venue
On the Presentation Day
- Arrive at the venue early.
- Carry a backup of your presentation slides.
- Introduce yourself to the session chair on arrival.
- Make sure you understand the audio-visual controls.
- Check that you can see a clock or timing device.
- Keep water available during your talk.
