Queen’s University’s newspaper of record since 1969 queensu.ca/gazette February 23, 2016 CHANGING LIVES UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS Heather Stuart has seen the anti-stigma campaign grow over the years to where it is currently a global effort. Now a global effort, anti-stigma campaign is gaining momentum BY ANDREW CARROLL, Stigma Research Chair at Queen’s everyone involved. about their stigma experiences,” “One of the things that is sur- GAZETTE EDITOR University, explains, the cam- “We did this big pilot program she says. “So it’s pretty hard to prising and really nice about all of paign’s roots stretch back 20 years and we learned a lot. We started target a program if you don’t this is how much people do want Sometimes great achievements ago when the leadership of the to create these toolkits and the know where the problems are.” to be part of the conversation,” come from humble beginnings. World Psychiatric Association re- program rolled out to about 25 From their own research, what she says, adding that similar cam- Today the campaign against alized that they wouldn’t be able different countries and we be- they found was that the biggest paigns on human rights and ac- the stigma surrounding mental to do anything innovative in men- came the faculty for the pro- problems with stigma involved cessibility had a positive effect. “I illness is a massive effort, high- tal health unless they first tackled gram,” she says. “We would teach the families and closest friends. think Bell chose the exact right lighted by the annual Bell Let’s the problem of stigma – not just people how to set up anti-stigma Armed with that information, time to do this (campaign). You Talk Day, held this past Jan. 27. on a personal level but structural programs and it didn’t seem to they could focus on areas of need know 15, 20 years ago this would However, as Heather Stuart inequities and discrimination as matter if it was a poor nation or a and move ahead. have fallen flat but I think people (Public Health Sciences), who has well. rich nation, there was always Shortly after, the Mental were at the point where they are contributed to getting this conver- As a result, a global anti- something that could be done and Health Commission of Canada starting to realize (something had sation started, says, it wasn’t that stigma program for schizophrenia the process seemed to work well, created an anti-stigma initiative to be done).” long ago that anti-stigma was was started. For Dr. Stuart, who at and I just kind of followed on as well and sought Dr. Stuart’s Another key, she says, is that barely on the radar as an area of the time, was co-directing a from there.” support. Then five years ago Bell the Bell Let’s Talk campaign actu- concern or interest. World Health Organization col- However, Dr. Stuart noticed a Let’s Talk Day was launched and ally gets people actively involved. Fortunately, times have laborating centre in Calgary with number of gaps in the research. stigma finally became a front- It is more than talking about an changed, definitely for the better. her husband, a connection was “The big gap that I noticed was and-centre issue. issue and moving on to the next. As Dr. Stuart, the inaugural made. She knew it wasn’t going to that nobody had bothered to ask It’s been an interesting journey Bell Mental Health and Anti- be easy as it was new ground for people who have a mental illness for Dr. Stuart. Continued on Page 3 campusnews queensu.ca/gazette February 23 , 2016 2 CanadaResearchChairs . Volume 44, Number 4, 2016 EDITOR Andrew Carroll 613-533-6459, ext. 36459 Supporting cutting-edge research [email protected] ASSISTANT EDITOR Mark Kerr BY CHRIS ARMES, 613-533-6000 ext. 77473 COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER [email protected] ADVERTISING COORDINATOR A fourth-year Pharmacokinet- Peter Gillespie ics course inspired Mark Ormis- 613-533-6000 ext. 75464 ton (Sc’02) to change his research [email protected] focus from chemical engineering www.queensu.ca/gazette to health sciences. Fourteen years Subscriptions are $30 per year. later, he has returned to Queen’s QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY VICENPRINCIPAL as the Tier 2 Canada Research OUNIVERSITY RELATIONSP Chair in Regenerative Cardiovas- Michael Fraser cular Medicine. 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