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OxCIN Global ScholarsThe OxCIN Global Scholars programme aims to build links between OxCIN and MRI researchers in the Global South. Global Scholars continue their research projects at their current institution, while being remotely affiliated with OxCIN for one year.

We are delighted to hold the Global Scholars Symposium 2025, where past and present Scholars, their supervisors, and OxCIN members come together to discuss global neuroimaging.

 

Preliminary programme 

12.00 - 12.10 Introduction to the Global Scholars programme
12.10 - 12.40

Neuroimaging Beyond Borders: Towards Equitable Imaging Biomarkers in Psychiatry

Nicolas Crossley

12.40 - 13.10

Title TBC

Kirsty Donald 

13.10 - 13.30 Round-table discussion on multi-country collaborative projects with guest speakers and Global Scholars
13.30 - 14.00 Social event 

Abstracts

Neuroimaging Beyond Borders: Towards Equitable Imaging Biomarkers in Psychiatry

Nick Crossley, Universidad Católica de Chile

Imaging research holds great potential to improve the lives of people with mental health disorders, both by advancing our understanding of underlying brain mechanisms and by providing stratification tools that help ensure patients receive the right treatment at the right time. However, much of this research is conducted in the Global North, risking the exclusion of the remaining 80% of the world’s population from its benefits. In this talk, I will briefly discuss these challenges and outline potential strategies to address them, focusing on issues such as costs and the characteristics of the populations studied, particularly their exposure to factors like poverty. I will also highlight how greater inclusion of research from the Global South can, in turn, enrich and advance psychiatric research in the Global North.