Hyderabad declaration on collaboration for global mental health: From illness to wellness
Kishan Porandla, Ramaswamy Viswanathan, T. S. S. Rao, Sridevi Mahalingappa, Vishal Madaan, Shabbir Amanullah, Harinder Bains, Sanjay Phadke, M Uma Shankar, V George Reddy, Vishal Akula, Sai Krishna Puli, Srinivas Kambhampati, Ravichandra Gajjala, Uttam Kishan PorandlaABSTRACT
On the occasion of the Annual National Conference of Indian Psychiatric Society 2025 (ANCIPS 2025), which was held from January 22 to January 25, 2025 with the Theme: “Neurobiology of Illness to Wellness,” the organizing committee has prepared the “Hyderabad Declaration on Collaboration for Global Mental Health: From Illness to Wellness.” The draft for this declaration has been prepared in consensus with the world leaders of various psychiatric associations belonging to India (IPS), America (APA), Canada (ICPA), and Britain (BIPA). This declaration consists of various key principles. These key principles are made highlighting the shift of the paradigm from illness to wellness, need to empower the health care fraternities, integrating the physical health with mental health, and need for increasing the sensitization and access to mental health and decreasing the stigma on mental health, thus motivating the health fraternities to have a collaborative approach to empower the community with special focus on vulnerable populations including youth and women.