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SUMMARY:20 Years of Mental Health Research in Colombia by Roberto Mejia
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 	20 Years of Mental Health Research in Colombia: 
 Lessons Learned and Opportunities for Translating 
 Research into Practice\n
 	Roberto Mejia, 
 PhD\n
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 	Research on mental health in 
 Colombia has evolved substantially during the 
 past 20 years using epidemiological methods. 
 In this talk, Dr. Mejia will share the chronology 
 of national and local representative 
 surveys in mental health and drug use. He will 
 also share two secondary analyses of data from 
 representative samples of Colombian adolescents 
 and adults looking at the relationship 
 of exposure to violence on individual externalizing 
 and internalizing outcomes, such as depression, 
 anxiety, violent behavior, and resilient 
 outcomes.\n
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 	Roberto Mejia Montoya 
 is a behavioral scientist and associate professor 
 at the Center for Excellence on Research 
 in Mental Health (CESISM) at CES University, 
 School of Medicine, located in Medellin, 
 Colombia. Dr. Mejia served as a program analyst 
 intern for the Division of Health Care Financing 
 in the State of Wisconsin. He also worked 
 as a public health analyst for the CDC's 
 Divisions of HIV/AIDS Prevention before returning 
 to his home country last December.\n
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 	During 
 the past 15 years, Dr. Mejia has conducted 
 research on the prevalence of drug use and 
 drug abuse among Colombian youth. He has also 
 studied the effects of exposure to different 
 types of violence on adjustment among Colombian 
 and African American youth residing in 
 Richmond, Virginia\n
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 Price: free\n
 Sponsor: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies\n
 Sponsor's Homepage: http://latinamerica.isp.msu.edu/\n
 Contact name: Kristin Janka Millar\n
 Contact phone: 517-353-1690\n
 Contact email: clacs@msu.edu\n
LOCATION:302 International Center
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