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<\/a> papge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 4-8 May 2026 — Online — European Mental Health Week<\/a><\/strong> by Mental Health Europe<\/p>\n\n\n\n 12 May 2026 — London, UK — Hot Brain 4: Climate Change and Brain Health<\/a><\/strong> by University College London<\/p>\n\n\n\n 13 May 2026 — Online —“Who is the Provider?<\/a><\/strong>“<\/a> speaker series by Global Mental Health at Johns Hopkins<\/p>\n\n\n\n 14 May 2026 — London, UK — \u2018Are we experienced?\u2019 \u2013 CAMHRA Public Forum<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 18 May 2026 — Online — Launch of WHO EURO Clinical Audit tool <\/a><\/strong>for child and adolescent mental health services <\/p>\n\n\n\n 18-20 May 2026 — Cape Town, South Africa — 2nd Global Conference on Child and Adolescent Mental Health<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 19 May 2026 — Geneva, Switzerland, and online — Care Not Custody<\/a><\/strong> by United for Global Mental Health<\/p>\n\n\n\n 19 May 2026 — Online — Conversations with women leaders in global mental health<\/a><\/strong> by Women in global mental health<\/p>\n\n\n\n 21 May 2026 — Online — Global innovation in mental health<\/a><\/strong> by the GALENOS project<\/p>\n\n\n\n 26 May 2026 — Online — Co-producing community-based mental health support in Africa<\/a><\/strong> (SUCCEED) by LSHTM ICED<\/p>\n\n\n\n 27 May 2026 — London, UK and online — Global Mental Health Day<\/a><\/strong> at University College London<\/p>\n\n\n\n 28 May 2026 — Online — Traumatic stress and psychosocial wellbeing among humanitarian health workers<\/a><\/strong> by Red Cross Red Crescent Research Network<\/p>\n\n\n\n 4 June 2026 — Online — Careers in Global Mental Health – Beginner’s Guide<\/a><\/strong> by Gergana Manolova<\/p>\n\n\n\n 4 June 2026 — Essential but Unavailable: Medicines for Mental Health<\/a><\/strong> by the World Health Organization<\/p>\n\n\n\n 8 June 2026 — Bergen, Norway — Healing Childhoods – Mental Health Interventions for Children Affected by War, Emergencies and Displacement<\/a><\/strong> by the Center for Crisis Psychology<\/p>\n\n\n\n 10 June 2026 — Online — “Who is the Provider?”<\/a> <\/strong>speaker series by Global Mental Health at Johns Hopkins<\/p>\n\n\n\n 16-18 June 2026 — Hong Kong — Digital Mental Health International Conference 2026<\/a><\/strong> by the Translational Research Centre for Digital Mental Health (TRC-DMH) at Tung Wah College in Hong Kong and partners<\/p>\n\n\n\n 18-20 June 2026 — Sofia, Bulgaria — Rethinking Mental Health in a Time of Change<\/a><\/strong> conference by ENMESH<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2 July 2026 — London, UK and online — Every Child Counts: Working collaboratively to improve support for children with developmental disabilities worldwide<\/a><\/strong><\/strong> by LSHTM<\/p>\n\n\n\n 9-12 July 2026 — Seattle, US — OCD Con <\/a><\/strong>by OCD Institute Texas<\/p>\n\n\n\n 26-29 August 2026 — Vilnius, Lithuania — Rethinking Suicide Research and Prevention: 21st European Symposium on Suicide and Suicidal Behaviour<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 9 September 2026 — Online — “Who is the Provider?”<\/strong><\/a> speaker series by Global Mental Health at Johns Hopkins<\/p>\n\n\n\n 14 October 2026 — Online — “Who is the Provider?”<\/strong><\/a> speaker series by Global Mental Health at Johns Hopkins<\/p>\n\n\n\n 14-16 October 2026 — Perth, Australia — Global Mental Health Summit <\/a><\/strong>by the World Federation for Mental Health<\/p>\n\n\n\n 9-11 November 2026 — Mombasa, Kenya — Youth Mental Health in Africa & the Diaspora <\/a><\/strong>by Africa Global Mental Health Institute<\/p>\n\n\n\n 11 November 2026 — Online — “Who is the Provider?”<\/strong><\/a> speaker series by Global Mental Health at Johns Hopkins<\/p>\n\n\n\n 12-14 November 2026 — Delhi, India — Together Against Stigma<\/a><\/strong> conference<\/p>\n\n\n\n 18 January 2026 — Online — Voces y Trayectorias: Conversations on Psychiatric Deinstitutionalisation<\/a><\/strong> by the Transitions project<\/p>\n\n\n\n 20 January 2026 — Singapore — Understanding the International Mad Movements: Perspectives of Lived-Experience Resistance<\/a><\/strong> by Duke-NUS Medical School<\/p>\n\n\n\n 21 January 2026 — Online — The ReachNow Tool: From Adaptation to Implementation in Liberia<\/a><\/strong> by MHPSS.net<\/p>\n\n\n\n 28 January 2026 — Online — Access to care and social prescribing for persons in vulnerable situations<\/a><\/strong> by EUCOMS<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2 February 2026 — online — Wellbeing with AI: What’s Possible?<\/a><\/strong> by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2-4 February 2026 — Iloilo, the Philippines, and online — Reimagining Global Mental Health: No Voice Left Behind<\/a> <\/strong>advocacy forum by the Global Mental Health Advocacy Network<\/p>\n\n\n\n 4 February 2026 — Online — Navigating Adolescent Depression: From Risk Stratification to Personal Narratives<\/a><\/strong> by IACAPAP<\/p>\n\n\n\n 7 February 2026 — Online — Localizing Mental Health: Voices from the Community<\/a><\/strong> in South-east Asia<\/p>\n\n\n\n 12 February 2026 — Online — Integrating lived expertise in mental health research and practice with individuals and families<\/a><\/strong> by the World Association of Cultural Psychiatry<\/p>\n\n\n\n 12 February 2026 — Online — Digital Health for NCDs and mental health<\/a><\/strong> webinar by the Geneva Digital Health Hub<\/p>\n\n\n\n 24 February 2026 — Online — Mental Health Dialogues: Interdisciplinarity in mental health research?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 25-26 February 2026 — Online — Mini-conference on scaling up mental health within primary care approach<\/a><\/strong> by WHO Europe<\/p>\n\n\n\n 25 February 2026 — Online — Young people in coastal communities and mental healt<\/a><\/strong>h by the Centre for Society and Mental Health at King’s College London<\/p>\n\n\n\n 27 February 2026 — Online — Conversations with women leaders in global mental health<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 4 March 2026 — London, UK — Over or under diagnosis? The challenge of responding to mental distress in contemporary society<\/a><\/strong> by the Centre for Society and Mental Health at King’s College London<\/p>\n\n\n\n 10 March 2026 — Online — Integrating MHPSS into Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR)<\/a><\/strong> brief launch by UN, WHO and MHIN<\/p>\n\n\n\n 11 March 2026 — London, UK and online — I studied alcohol. Academia took it seriously: The accidental researcher\u2019s tale with Professor Abhijit Nadkarni<\/a><\/strong> by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine<\/p>\n\n\n\n 11 March 2026 — Online — The Alchemy of Involvement: Transmuting lived experience into experiential knowledge to enrich mental health research <\/a><\/strong>by the ESCR Centre for Society and Mental Health at King’s College London<\/p>\n\n\n\n 11 March 2026 — Online — “Who is the Provider?”<\/strong><\/a> speaker series by Global Mental Health at Johns Hopkins<\/p>\n\n\n\n 12 March 2026 — Online — The mental wellbeing of healthcare workers: What the evidence tells us<\/a><\/strong> by Aga Khan University Brain and Mind Institute<\/p>\n\n\n\n 18 March 2026 — Online — Network Psychiatry – Learning from each other webinar series<\/a><\/strong> by EUCOMMS<\/p>\n\n\n\n 18 March 2026 — London, UK — “From me it is born\u201d: Psychic life and a politics of the ordinary<\/a><\/strong> by CAMHRA<\/p>\n\n\n\n 26 March 2026 — Online — Advancing the WHO Comprehensive Mental Health Action Plan 2013\u20132030 \u2013 Regional and Country Perspectives Across Asia<\/a><\/strong> by the ISC MHPSS Learning Collaborative at the Center for Innovation in Mental Health and MHIN Asia Hub<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1 April 2026 — Online — Disability Rights Worldwide with Prof Michael Stein<\/a><\/strong> by aves Mental Health<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1 April 2026 — Online — MHPSS for All – Scaling Access Through Capacity-Strengthening<\/a><\/strong> by the MHPSS Academy and UNHCR<\/p>\n\n\n\n 8 April 2026 — Online — “Who is the Provider?”<\/a> <\/strong>speaker series by Global Mental Health at Johns Hopkins<\/p>\n\n\n\n 16 April 2026 — Online — UPSIDES: Using Peer Support In Developing Empowering Mental Health Services<\/a><\/strong> by UPSIDES project<\/p>\n\n\n\n 16 April 2026 — Online — Mental health and digital use for youth<\/a><\/strong> by WHO Western Pacific Region<\/p>\n\n\n\n 20 April 2026 — Online — Frontiers in Global Mental Health Featuring Dr. Graham Thornicroft <\/a><\/strong>by GlobalMentalHealth@Harvard<\/p>\n\n\n\n 23-25 April 2026 — Detroit, US — Borders, Barriers, and Belonging: Cultural Psychiatry & Global Mental Health 24 April 2026 — Online — Accelerating progress on the AFRO Regional Mental Health Framework<\/a><\/strong> by WHO AFRO<\/p>\n\n\n\n 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<\/a>, 2022<\/a>, 2021<\/a>, 2020<\/a>, 2019<\/a> and 2018<\/a><\/strong> can be found at the links, though some older event links may be expired. Some years do not have calendars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you are looking for more on global mental health, check out my newsletter Global Mental Health Unboxed<\/a><\/strong> which features the latest events, publications, job ads and resources. Check out also the Resources <\/strong><\/a>page on this website.<\/p>\n\n\n\nMay<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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in a Time of Displacement and Division<\/a><\/strong> conference by the Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture<\/p>\n\n\n\n*Please note that I rely on publicly available information for the selection of these events and can’t guarantee their quality. If you have an event you’d like to add here, use the form below and I will be glad to put it on the list.<\/h6>\n\n\n