RESPOND Project Events

PAST EVENTS

Final RESPOND conference in Barcelona

Title: Preparing for Pandemics: What About Mental Health?

Date: Thursday, 16 May 2024

Location: Barcelona School of Management, University Pompeu Fabra (UPF) Auditorium UPF – Balmes Building, C/ de Balmes, 132, 134, L’Eixample, 08008 Barcelona, Spain.

Programme and speakers: To access the programme and list of speakers, please click on the following link: 

Preliminary programme final event Barcelona

This is the final conference organized by RESPOND, an EU-funded research project running from 2020 to 2024. The project aims to identify which groups are most at risk for adverse mental health effects due to the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as to understand what determines that risk. RESPOND also examined whether mental health was included in the policy responses. Finally, RESPOND also implemented and adapted cost-effective programmes developed by the World Health Organisation (WHO): “Doing What Matters in Times of Stress” and “Problem Management Plus”, to help those in need, and identified effective strategies to improve health system preparedness in the event of a future pandemic.

During this event, RESPOND partners presented the final scientific results of the RESPOND project. There was also a panel discussion with researchers, practitioners and policymakers to delve deeper into the implications and recommendations arising from the research.

Conference on health and policy responses to the pandemic in Brussels

Title: Promoting pandemic preparedness: health and policy responses to protect wellbeing and address social inequalities

Date: Thursday, 7 September 2023

Location: University Foundation, Rue d’Egmont 11, 1000 Brussels, Belgium

Programme and speakers: To access the programme and list of speakers, please click on the following link: Conference Programme & List of Speakers.

This conference is organised by the RESPOND project, in collaboration with the COVINFORM, PERISCOPE, RESISTIRÉ, and SHARE-COVID19 projects. These projects were funded by a SARS-CoV-2 grant from the European Union, within the scheme “Innovative and rapid health-related approaches to respond to COVID-19 and to deliver quick results for society for a higher level of preparedness of health systems (SC1-PHE- CORONAVIRUS-2020-2)”.

International Symposium on Resilience Research in Mainz

Title: 9th International Symposium on Resilience Research

Date: 27-29 September 2023

Location: Mainz, Germany

RESPOND researchers Raffael Kalisch, Roberto Mediavilla, Papoula Petri-Romão, and Jutta Winterling will be speaking at the event. Please click on the following links for the programme and list of speakers.