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International Medical Corps’ Toolkit aims to support the understanding and implementation of integrated mental health programs in humanitarian settings. It includes key guidance and resources that reinforce the integration process among implementation partners, donors and governments. The toolkit outlines the steps for integrated mental health programs and provides valuable guidance for better resource allocation, program design, contextualization, implementation and evaluation. The Toolkit is the result of a two-year process of consultation, resource-mapping and development with a Toolkit Advisory Group. This Toolkit was made possible by the generous support of the U. S. Agency for International Development’s Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance.

Additional Resources:

• PODCAST: Listen in on why we need a Toolkit for Mental Health Integration
• BLOG: What is the Mental Health Integration Toolkit and How to Use it - Learn here!
• FORUM: Discuss mental health integration within humanitarian settings

IFIC was delighted to help launch the countdown to the 1st North American Conference on Integrated Care taking place in 2020.

Called Innovation. Inspiration. Integration: Co-designing for Health and Wellbeing with Individuals and Communities, this conference, in association with the 6th World Congress on Integrated Care, will take place in Toronto, Canada.

The 2020 conference is a partnership with the International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC), The Change Foundation, the University of Toronto and KPMG, and is in association with iCoach and the Health System Performance Research Network.

Dr Nick Goodwin, CEO and IFIC Co-founder, said “I would like to thank our willing and committed partners from the University of Toronto, the Change Foundation and KPMG Canada for all their leadership and support in bringing us to this point, and to the collective ambition to build a legacy around the event that builds recognition on the need to embrace people-driven care in policy and practice in the future.”

Cathy Fooks, President and CEO of The Change Foundation, added: “We are proud to be a key partner in bringing such a prestigious and growing event to the city of Toronto and believe that it is an opportunity to showcase Canadian models and to hear about what works internationally.”

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The International Foundation for Integrated care has expanded, creating a new Collaborative Centre in Ireland.

IFIC Ireland is a collaboration with University College Dublin and supported by the HSE. The core mission is to develop the capacity and capabilities of Ireland in the design and delivery of integrated care. IFIC Ireland will seek to achieve this by providing a platform to develop and exchange ideas and promote activities in the region in keeping with its mission.

This collaboration developed after Ireland hosted the successful 17th International Conference on Integrated Care, ICIC17, in Dublin in 2017.

Founding member and Co-Director Prof Áine Carroll, Professor of Healthcare Integration and Improvement, University College Dublin/National Rehabilitation Hospital, said: “This is an exciting new venture for those tasked with the design and delivery of integrated care in Ireland. We need to move from evolution to revolution in integrated care.”

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Liz Schroeder has been appointed Topic Editor in Health Economics and brings to IJIC unique expertise from both the UK and Australian contexts.

Liz holds a doctorate in Public Health from the University of Oxford and is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the Health Economy, Macquarie University (MUCHE) in Sydney, where she leads the Integrated Care stream of research.

Her interests are primarily in mixed methods approaches to evaluating integrated care, blending process and economic evaluations and incorporating innovative measures to determine financial impacts and value-based outcomes. Liz’s vision is to support collaborations between researchers, clinicians, health economists and health service planners to ensure high quality embedded implementation and translational research.

She aims to attract research to IJIC designed to identify feasible, sustainable, cost-effective and scalable initiatives at local or regional levels to serve as indicators of success. In addition, she is looking for methodological papers to improve outcomes measurement, financing and funding models and high-quality evidence in evaluation.

Liz will be working closely with IJIC editors, Apostolos Tsiachristas and Viktoria Stein to develop these research streams.