Thank you to all who attended
2024 Annual Meeting

March 7-9, 2024 

Hotel Martinique, New York City

Diversity and Inequity in Mental Health: Social-structural, Cultural, Psychological, and Biological Mechanisms

 

Artwork by Jaswant Guzder, MD

 For decades, community-based studies have indicated variation in psychopathology across social groups stratified by socioeconomic status, ethnicity, race, gender identity, sexual orientation, and disability. Some variation suggests diversity: complex differences in prevalence, symptom expression and severity, coping and resilience, illness models, and measurement factors that do not necessarily favor socially dominant groups (e.g., lower-than-expected prevalence of many disorders among minoritized and marginalized groups combined with higher chronicity and disability). The mechanisms of this variation remain unclear. Some differences in mental health – such as those associated with structural racism and sexism, socioeconomic status, homophobia, or transphobia – are clearly inequities: preventable and unjust social practices toward oppressed groups that lead to worse mental health, burden of disease, and outcomes as well as poorer availability and quality of care. In the 2024 APPA annual meeting, we aim to identify gaps in research on the mechanisms that interact across social-structural, cultural, psychological, and biological levels to create and sustain these patterns. Our goal is to help guide next research steps and prevention/intervention efforts. 

Keynote: Lived experience of the determinants of diversity and inequity in mental health

  • Nev Jones (U Pitt)

  • Oscar Jimenez-Solomon (Columbia)

Featured Panels:
Theory: basic and applied theoretical frameworks (e.g., fundamental causes, looping effects, intersectionality, developmental aspects, global systems) 
  • Pamela Collins (Hopkins)
  • Cristiane Duarte (Columbia)
  • Helena Hansen (UCLA)
  • Laurence Kirmayer (McGill)
  • Bruce Link (UC Riverside)
Determinants and mechanisms at individual levels:
Social-structural (e.g., systemic/institutional racism, colonialism, homophobia); Cultural (e.g., cultural concepts of distress and resilience related to adversity, impact of globalization on symptom expression); Psychological (e.g., parenting and ethnoracial identity, racism and suicidal ideation/behavior); Biological (e.g., adversity and genomic expression, neuropsychology of development)
  • Neil K. Aggarwal (Columbia)
  • Anne Becker (Harvard)
  • Joshua Breslau (RAND)
  • Adolfo Cuevas (NYU)
  • Erin Dunn (Harvard)
  • Joseph Gone (Harvard)
  • Mark Hatzenbuehler (Harvard)
  • Lisa Kiang (Wake-Forest University)
  • Rachel Kronick (McGill)
  • Roberto Lewis-Fernández (Columbia)
  • Michael Lindsey (NYU)
  • Kieran O'Donnell (Yale)
  • Ruth Shim (UC Davis)
  • Lawrence Yang (NYU)
 Multi-level integration: interactive mechanisms in psychosis, PTSD, and substance use disorders
  • Deidre Anglin (CUNY)
  • Carlos Blanco (NIDA)
  • Katherine Keyes (Columbia)
  • Jennifer Stevens (Emory)
 Toward prevention and intervention: implications for research, treatment, prevention, and mental health policy
  • Margarita Alegría (Harvard)
  • Christina Borba (NIMH)
  • Sidney Hankerson (Icahn/NYC Division of Mental Hygiene)

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Continuing Education Credits:

Hotel Room Information-– ROOM BLOCK EXTENDED to February 22, 2024
APPA has secured a block of hotel rooms at the Hotel Martinique in New York City for the use of our attendees at a special rate of $209.00 per night (not including taxes and other fees).  This is the meeting hotel, and all APPA Meeting functions will take place on hotel property.  Please reserve early since we expect the room block to fill up prior to the February 22, 2024 cut-off date.  After February 22, 2024 or once the room block fills up the rates will increase,
Please note -
If you had previously tried to book a room at the $209.00 per night APPA rate and were unable to, please try again.  There should not be an issue in confirming the APPA rate prior to the February 22, 2024 deadline.

APPA would like to encourage everyone attending to please take advantage of the APPA rate at Hotel Martinique and make your hotel reservations as soon as possible.  The ability to offer such a competitive rate at The Martinique depends on APPA attendees filling the the room block. 
We're not there yet and need your help! 
To make reservations either click the link or call into the reservation phone number below. 

**If using the link to make your reservation the dates will default to checking in March 5, 2024 and checking out on March 10, 2024. Please make sure you modify the dates that you need for your stay when booking.  The APPA rate is currently showing as sold out for the 5th.  If you need a hotel room for March 5th, please confirm the other nights needed online and then email Tim Bower at [email protected] to have the night of the 5th added. **

https://www.hilton.com/en/book/reservation/deeplink/?ctyhocn=NYCCUQQ&groupCode=APP&arrivaldate=2024-03-05&departuredate=2024-03-10&cid=OM,WW,HILTONLINK,EN,DirectLink&fromId=HILTONLINKDIRECT

Phone reservations: 1-833-456-3244. Guest must provide the following group code: APP

If you need any assistance please email APPA Headquarters at [email protected].

Roberto Lewis-Fernández, MD, APPA President
Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Columbia University
Director, NYS Center of Excellence for Cultural Competence, NYS Psychiatric Institute
Research Area Leader, Anxiety, Mood, Eating, and Related Disorders, NYSPI