Conference Structure
Conference Tracks & Themes
Thematic streams shaping dialogue, workshops, innovation, and stigma-related
learning across the conference.
Track 1
◉
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
- Stigma across lifespans (child, adolescent, adult, elderly )
Track 2
◉
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
◉
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
◉
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
◉
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
◉
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
◉
WHO led track
-
Deinstitutionalisation and its impact on community care
-
People with lived experience engagement
