CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

Programme Overview

TAS 2026 Conference Plan

Explore the full conference journey across plenaries, parallel sessions, networking blocks, and special meetings.

8:00 am onwards
Registration
9:00 to 10:30
Inaugural Plenary + Keynote Speech
10:30 to 11:00
Tea Break
11:00 to 12:00
Plenary 1
Background to the Lancet Commission on Stigma and the WHO Mosaic tool kit Speaker: Sir Professor Graham Thornicroft
Mainstreaming stigma intervention into mental health programmes and policies Speaker: Professor Norman Satorius
12:00 to 1:00
Parallel 1
1:00 to 2:00
Lunch
2:00 to 3:00
Plenary 2 – India specific stigma reduction interventions
3:00 to 3:30
Tea Break
3:30 to 4:30
Parallel 2
4:30 to 5:30
Parallel 3
7:30 onwards
Dinner and Networking
8:00 am onwards
Registration
9:00 to 10:00
Plenary 3 – Government led initiatives to reduce stigma and ways forward
10:00 to 10:30
Tea Break
10:30 to 11:30
Parallel 4
11:30 to 12:30
Parallel 5
12:30 to 1:30
Parallel 6
1:30 to 2:30
Lunch
2:30 to 3:30
Plenary 4 - The science of stigma
Speakers:
Professor Nicolas Rusch
Professor Heather Stuart
3:30 to 4:00
Tea Break
4:00 to 5:00
Parallel 7
5:00 to 6:00
Closing Session
Release of The Legacy Statement (stigma and discrimination included in mental health policies)

+ Prize distribution ceremony for:
• Best poster
• Best oral presentation by ECRs
8:00 am onwards
Registration
9:00 to 12:00
Global Anti Stigma Association Meeting (by invitation only)
12:00 to 1:00
Lunch
1:00 to 3:00
TAS Secretariat Meeting
3:00
Closure of TAS