The Movement for Global Mental Health is hosting the first Global Mental Health Summit from September 2 to 6 in Athens.

The Summit aims to take stock of the progress made in achieving the call to action of the Lancet series.

The Summit is being hosted as part of the World Federation for Mental Health's Biennial Congress and is supported by the Lancet, the Wellcome Trust, the Global Initiative on Psychiatry and the MacArthur Foundation.

Highlights of the Congress Program include a Congress Forum to review the impact of The Lancet Series on Global Mental Health, the biennial WFMH Margaret Mead, George Albee, and Mary Hemingway-Rees memorial lectures and the first WFMH Mental Health Consumers Lecture, a host of special issue symposia, and a special plenary session to introduce the 2009 World Mental Health Day global awareness campaign.