advancement of mental health awareness, prevention of mental disorders, advocacy, and best practice recovery focused interventions worldwide. Mental health day is celebrated at the initiative of the World Federation of Mental Health and WHO supports this initiative through raising awareness on mental health issues using its strong relationships with the Ministries of health and civil society organizations across the globe. Mental Illness Awareness Week (MIAW) is an annual national public education campaign designed to help open the eyes of Canadians to the reality of mental illness. The week was established in 1992 by the Canadian Psychiatric Association, and is now coordinated by the Canadian Alliance on Mental Illness and Mental Health (CAMIMH) in cooperation with all its member organizations and many other supporters across Canada. List of presidents John Rawlings Rees (1948) - London, England Dr. Andre Repond (1949-1950) Prof. W. Line (1950-1951) - Toronto, Canada Prof. Alfonso Millan (1951-1952) - Mexico, DF Dr. M.K. el Kholy (1952-1953) - Cairo, Egypt Prof. H.C. Rumke (1953-1954) - Utrecht, Netherlands Dr. Frank Fremont-Smith (1954-1955) - New York, USA Prof. Nilo Maki (1955-1956) - Helsinki, Finland Dr. Eduardo Enrique Krapf (1956-1957) - Buenos Aires, Argentina Dr. Margaret Mead (1957-1958) - New York, USA Dr. Brock Chisholm (1957-1958) - Victoria, Canada Prof. Hans Hoff (1959-1960) - Vienna, Austria Prof. Paul Sivadon (1960-1961) - Paris, France Prof. A.C. Pacheco de Silva (1961-1962) - São Paulo, Brazil Dr. George S Stevenson (1961-1962) - New York, USA Dr. Phon Sangsingkeo (1962-1963) - Bangkok, Thailand Prof. G.P. Alivisatos (1963-1964) - Athens, Greece Dr. Alan Stoller (1964-1965) - Victoria, Australia Sir Samual Manuwa (1965-1966) - Lagos, Nigeria Dr. Otto Klineberg (1966-1967) - Canada Prof. Morris Carstairs (1968-1972) - Edinburgh, Scotland Prof. Michael Beaubrun (1972-1974) - Kingston, Jamaica Prof. Tsung-yi Lin (1975-1979) - Vancouver, Canada Mr. Gowan Guest (1979-1981) - Esq, Vancouver, Canada Prof. Eugene Brody (1981-1983) - Baltimore, USA Dr. Estefania Aldaba-Lim (1983-1985) - Manila, Philippines Mrs. Edith Morgan (1985-1987) - London, England Dr. Gamal M. Abou El Azayem (1987-1989) - Cairo, Egypt Dr. Stanislas Flache (1989-1991) - Geneva, Switzerland Dr. Max W. Abbott (1991-1993) - Auckland, New Zealand Dr. Federico Puente-Silva (1993-1995) - Mexico DF, Mexico Mrs. Beverly B. Long, Georgia (1995-1997) - USA Prof. Marten deVries (1997-1999) - Maastricht, Netherlands Dr. Ahmed Abou El Azayem (1999-2001) - Cairo, Egypt Mrs. Pirkko Lahti (2001-2003) - Helsinki, Finland Dr. Patt Franciosi (2003-2005) - Wisconsin, USA Mrs. Shona Sturgeon (2005-2007)