Mi., 02. Dez.
|Virtual
Beyond Investment: Rethinking Mental Health Services and Outcomes in Saudi Arabia
A Chair Briefing exploring what must be measured, implemented, and learned so that mental-health investment in Saudi Arabia produces meaningful improvements in people's lives.
Zeit & Ort
02. Dez. 2026, 12:00 – 19:00
Virtual
Über die Veranstaltung
Saudi Arabia has made substantial progress in mental-health policy, primary-care integration and digital referral infrastructure under Vision 2030. GPN's report, Beyond Investment: Rethinking Mental Health Services and Outcomes in Saudi Arabia, finds that available evidence does not yet consistently connect population need, service activity, outcomes, equity and resource allocation, and draws on international lessons to inform discussion of measurement, governance and policy learning.
This panel draws on expertise across public health, population health, health economics, health technology assessment, health policy and psychology to examine how mental-health investment in Saudi Arabia can be assessed by outcomes as well as expenditure and service activity.
Chair: Ameneh Ghazal Saatchi — Founder and CEO, Global Policy Network
Speakers:
Dr Taghreed Al-Ghaith — Assistant CEO for the Health Promotion Sector, Public Health Authority (Weqaya)
Dr Mohammed Alluhidan — General Supervisor, Health Research Center, Saudi Commission for Health Specialties
Dr Haya S. Zedan — Associate Professor, Prince Musaid bin Abdulrahman University
Professor Zafar Iqbal — Associate Medical Director of Public Health, NHS Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
Hugh McGuire — Senior Adviser, NICE International & NICE Advice
Project lead: Amin Arabo | policy@globalpolicynetwork.com
Chair contact: Ameneh Saatchi | ags@globalpolicynetwork.com | +44 (0)7881 622214