{"id":1051,"date":"2021-06-24T10:33:31","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T17:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwgmh\/?page_id=1051"},"modified":"2024-01-15T10:16:14","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T18:16:14","slug":"covid-19-resources","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwgmh\/partnership\/covid-19-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>Global<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h2><strong>UN organizations and resources for mental health and COVID-19<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>In May 2020 United for Global Mental Health, Office of the UN Secretary General, WHO and other partners worked on the content and launch of the UN briefing on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sites\/un2.un.org\/files\/un_policy_brief-covid_and_mental_health_final.pdf\">COVID-19 and the Need for Action on Mental Health<\/a><\/li>\n<li>In February 2021, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news\/item\/11-02-2021-who-executive-board-stresses-need-for-improved-response-to-mental-health-impact-of-public-health-emergencies\">WHO Executive Board stressed the need for improved response to mental health impact of public health emergencies<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The Director-General of WHO released the <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.who.int\/gb\/ebwha\/pdf_files\/EB148\/B148_20-en.pdf\">mental health preparedness and response for the COVID-19 pandemic<\/a> in January 2021<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/teams\/mental-health-and-substance-use\/covid-19\">WHO landing page for mental health and COVID-19<\/a><\/li>\n<li>In May 202, the Inter-Agency Standing Committee published <a href=\"https:\/\/interagencystandingcommittee.org\/iasc-reference-group-mental-health-and-psychosocial-support-emergency-settings\/iasc-guidance-basic-psychosocial-skills-guide-covid-19-responders\">Guidance on Basic Psychosocial Skills- A Guide for COVID-19 Responders<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>United for Global Mental Health webinar<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The Lancet Psychiatry, Mental Health Innovation Network, MHPSS.net and United for Global Mental Health organized a <a href=\"https:\/\/unitedgmh.org\/mh-for-all-webinars\">series of webinars<\/a> designed to provide policy makers and the wider health community with the latest evidence on the impact of COVID-19 on mental health and how to address it. The aim is to provide practical solutions to the problems we all face.<\/p>\n<h1><strong>Local<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h2><strong>Activities on mental health and COVID-19 at UW<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/psychiatry.uw.edu\/who-we-are\/news-events\/news\/population-health-initiative-funded-covid-19-rapid-response-final-reports\/\">WA State COVID-19 Pregnancy Collaborative<\/a> from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washington.edu\/populationhealth\/2020\/04\/30\/initiative-announces-award-of-21-covid-19-rapid-response-grants\/\">Population Health Initiative Rapid Response Grants<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/psychiatry.uw.edu\/profile\/amritha-bhat\/\">Amritha Bhat, MD, MPH<\/a>, was an investigator on this proposal along with collaborators in the departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Global Health, Biostatistics and Pediatrics. Their objective was to investigate the effects of a highly communicable infectious disease leading to severe pneumonia and death (COVID-19) in pregnant women in Washington State. Pregnant women are typically a highly vulnerable group to pathogenic respiratory viruses and have the highest WHO priority for influenza vaccination in a pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The team\u2019s central hypothesis was that COVID-19 infections in pregnancy increase the risk for spontaneous abortion, preterm birth, stillbirth, intrauterine growth restriction and mental health disorders in the mother. They conducted a multi-site prospective chart review of prenatal and neonatal medical records across the majority of health systems in Western Washington (6 hospitals\/hospital systems, &gt;20 investigators). Overall, the Washington State COVID-19 in Pregnancy Collaborative sites captured approximately 61% of deliveries in Washington State during the study period.<\/p>\n<p>The team successfully collected data to establish a large, population-based registry in Washington State. Analyses have been completed of the sociodemographic and clinical outcomes of 240 pregnant patients who contracted COVID-19. Work remains ongoing to calculate infection rates, disease severity, co-morbidity, symptom length and possible vascular injury that could impair fetal growth.<\/p>\n<p>The team will continue working toward research to determine how COVID-19 impacts maternal-child physical and mental health. Further grants have been applied and awarded from the Center of Disease Control, Royalty Research Fund and partnerships with Washington State Department of Health.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Resources at UW<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The University of Washington School of Medicine page for <a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.uwmedicine.org\/covid-19\/\">COVID-10 resources for faculty, clinicians, and general wellbeing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global UN organizations and resources for mental health and COVID-19 In May 2020 United for Global Mental Health, Office of the UN Secretary General, WHO and other partners worked on the content and launch of the UN briefing on COVID-19 and the Need for Action on Mental Health In February 2021, WHO Executive Board stressed the need for improved response to mental health impact of public health emergencies The Director-General of WHO released the mental health preparedness and response for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":224,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/template-no-hero.php","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-1051","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwgmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwgmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwgmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwgmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwgmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1051"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwgmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1066,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwgmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1051\/revisions\/1066"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwgmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwgmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}