Global Mental Health Events List 2026
This is a list of global mental health events taking place in 2026. I select the events to include according to my preferences and I usually try to include free and/or large events, online and in-person. Often events are announced at short notice, so keep coming here every week to see the latest. I usually don’t know much about these events beyond what is published on the websites, so if you have questions regarding an event, it is best to get in touch with the organizers. If you would like to suggest an event for me to include, please get in touch with me via the form at the bottom of the About Me papge.
May
4-8 May 2026 — Online — European Mental Health Week by Mental Health Europe
12 May 2026 — London, UK — Hot Brain 4: Climate Change and Brain Health by University College London
13 May 2026 — Online —“Who is the Provider?“ speaker series by Global Mental Health at Johns Hopkins
14 May 2026 — London, UK — ‘Are we experienced?’ – CAMHRA Public Forum
18 May 2026 — Online — Launch of WHO EURO Clinical Audit tool for child and adolescent mental health services
18-20 May 2026 — Cape Town, South Africa — 2nd Global Conference on Child and Adolescent Mental Health
19 May 2026 — Geneva, Switzerland, and online — Care Not Custody by United for Global Mental Health
19 May 2026 — Online — Conversations with women leaders in global mental health by Women in global mental health
21 May 2026 — Online — Global innovation in mental health by the GALENOS project
26 May 2026 — Online — Co-producing community-based mental health support in Africa (SUCCEED) by LSHTM ICED
27 May 2026 — London, UK and online — Global Mental Health Day at University College London
28 May 2026 — Online — Traumatic stress and psychosocial wellbeing among humanitarian health workers by Red Cross Red Crescent Research Network
June
4 June 2026 — Online — Careers in Global Mental Health – Beginner’s Guide by Gergana Manolova
4 June 2026 — Essential but Unavailable: Medicines for Mental Health by the World Health Organization
8 June 2026 — Bergen, Norway — Healing Childhoods – Mental Health Interventions for Children Affected by War, Emergencies and Displacement by the Center for Crisis Psychology
10 June 2026 — Online — “Who is the Provider?” speaker series by Global Mental Health at Johns Hopkins
16-18 June 2026 — Hong Kong — Digital Mental Health International Conference 2026 by the Translational Research Centre for Digital Mental Health (TRC-DMH) at Tung Wah College in Hong Kong and partners
18-20 June 2026 — Sofia, Bulgaria — Rethinking Mental Health in a Time of Change conference by ENMESH
July
2 July 2026 — London, UK and online — Every Child Counts: Working collaboratively to improve support for children with developmental disabilities worldwide by LSHTM
9-12 July 2026 — Seattle, US — OCD Con by OCD Institute Texas
August
26-29 August 2026 — Vilnius, Lithuania — Rethinking Suicide Research and Prevention: 21st European Symposium on Suicide and Suicidal Behaviour
September
9 September 2026 — Online — “Who is the Provider?” speaker series by Global Mental Health at Johns Hopkins
October
14 October 2026 — Online — “Who is the Provider?” speaker series by Global Mental Health at Johns Hopkins
14-16 October 2026 — Perth, Australia — Global Mental Health Summit by the World Federation for Mental Health
November
9-11 November 2026 — Mombasa, Kenya — Youth Mental Health in Africa & the Diaspora by Africa Global Mental Health Institute
11 November 2026 — Online — “Who is the Provider?” speaker series by Global Mental Health at Johns Hopkins
12-14 November 2026 — Delhi, India — Together Against Stigma conference
Past events from the year
January
18 January 2026 — Online — Voces y Trayectorias: Conversations on Psychiatric Deinstitutionalisation by the Transitions project
20 January 2026 — Singapore — Understanding the International Mad Movements: Perspectives of Lived-Experience Resistance by Duke-NUS Medical School
21 January 2026 — Online — The ReachNow Tool: From Adaptation to Implementation in Liberia by MHPSS.net
28 January 2026 — Online — Access to care and social prescribing for persons in vulnerable situations by EUCOMS
February
2 February 2026 — online — Wellbeing with AI: What’s Possible? by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
2-4 February 2026 — Iloilo, the Philippines, and online — Reimagining Global Mental Health: No Voice Left Behind advocacy forum by the Global Mental Health Advocacy Network
4 February 2026 — Online — Navigating Adolescent Depression: From Risk Stratification to Personal Narratives by IACAPAP
7 February 2026 — Online — Localizing Mental Health: Voices from the Community in South-east Asia
12 February 2026 — Online — Integrating lived expertise in mental health research and practice with individuals and families by the World Association of Cultural Psychiatry
12 February 2026 — Online — Digital Health for NCDs and mental health webinar by the Geneva Digital Health Hub
24 February 2026 — Online — Mental Health Dialogues: Interdisciplinarity in mental health research?
25-26 February 2026 — Online — Mini-conference on scaling up mental health within primary care approach by WHO Europe
25 February 2026 — Online — Young people in coastal communities and mental health by the Centre for Society and Mental Health at King’s College London
27 February 2026 — Online — Conversations with women leaders in global mental health
March
4 March 2026 — London, UK — Over or under diagnosis? The challenge of responding to mental distress in contemporary society by the Centre for Society and Mental Health at King’s College London
10 March 2026 — Online — Integrating MHPSS into Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) brief launch by UN, WHO and MHIN
11 March 2026 — London, UK and online — I studied alcohol. Academia took it seriously: The accidental researcher’s tale with Professor Abhijit Nadkarni by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
11 March 2026 — Online — The Alchemy of Involvement: Transmuting lived experience into experiential knowledge to enrich mental health research by the ESCR Centre for Society and Mental Health at King’s College London
11 March 2026 — Online — “Who is the Provider?” speaker series by Global Mental Health at Johns Hopkins
12 March 2026 — Online — The mental wellbeing of healthcare workers: What the evidence tells us by Aga Khan University Brain and Mind Institute
18 March 2026 — Online — Network Psychiatry – Learning from each other webinar series by EUCOMMS
18 March 2026 — London, UK — “From me it is born”: Psychic life and a politics of the ordinary by CAMHRA
26 March 2026 — Online — Advancing the WHO Comprehensive Mental Health Action Plan 2013–2030 – Regional and Country Perspectives Across Asia by the ISC MHPSS Learning Collaborative at the Center for Innovation in Mental Health and MHIN Asia Hub
April
1 April 2026 — Online — Disability Rights Worldwide with Prof Michael Stein by aves Mental Health
1 April 2026 — Online — MHPSS for All – Scaling Access Through Capacity-Strengthening by the MHPSS Academy and UNHCR
8 April 2026 — Online — “Who is the Provider?” speaker series by Global Mental Health at Johns Hopkins
16 April 2026 — Online — UPSIDES: Using Peer Support In Developing Empowering Mental Health Services by UPSIDES project
16 April 2026 — Online — Mental health and digital use for youth by WHO Western Pacific Region
20 April 2026 — Online — Frontiers in Global Mental Health Featuring Dr. Graham Thornicroft by GlobalMentalHealth@Harvard
23-25 April 2026 — Detroit, US — Borders, Barriers, and Belonging: Cultural Psychiatry & Global Mental Health
in a Time of Displacement and Division conference by the Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture
24 April 2026 — Online — Accelerating progress on the AFRO Regional Mental Health Framework by WHO AFRO
This list will be updated frequently as I get more information about upcoming events. Since most of the events are operating online, they come out on shorter notice, so this calendar will likely remain sparse for now. If you wish to see past events, the calendars for 2025, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019 and 2018 can be found at the links, though some older event links may be expired. Some years do not have calendars.
How do I select the events for this calendar? There are many events worldwide on mental health, but I select specifically those that are related to global mental health events and related disciplines. I try to strike a balance between paid and free, local and global, high-income, low-income and middle-income so that there is something for everyone. If you have an event or correction to suggest, please leave a comment below and I will add it.
If you are looking for more on global mental health, check out my newsletter Global Mental Health Unboxed which features the latest events, publications, job ads and resources. Check out also the Resources page on this website.
