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I’m currently working on updating the contents of this page after a hiatus. I should be done by April 2025.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On this page you will find resources for reading, studying, researching and working in global mental health. All resources have been selected by me and are shaped by my experience and knowledge, but I’ve tried to stick to the free resources accessible by everyone. I would be happy to add anything you would like to recommend – use the form at the bottom to send it on to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If you are new to the field and want to get an idea of the scope of the scientific field, you may want to start with the Lancet series of articles on global mental health [free registration may be required]. Explore the 2007 series<\/a> <\/strong>and the 2011 series<\/strong><\/a> at the links. A few other interesting articles to read may be ‘Global mental health: a failure of humanity<\/strong><\/a>‘ for a wider view of the cultural trends, ‘How scientifically valid is the knowledge base of global mental health?<\/strong><\/a>‘ for a critique, and ‘Why does mental health not get the attention it deserves? An application of the Shiffman and Smith Framework<\/a><\/strong>‘ for analysis of the field impact. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interested in more? A few dense books written from different perspectives are ‘Global Mental Health: Principles and Practice<\/a><\/strong>‘ on the core topics and methods of the field, ‘Global Mental Health: Anthropological Perspectives<\/strong><\/a>‘, which highlights the way mental health is intimately connected to other circumstances in society and life, and ‘Re-Visioning Psychiatry: Cultural Phenomenology, Critical Neuroscience, and Global Mental Health<\/a><\/strong>‘ exploring interdisciplinarity and advancing debate on the further role of psychiatry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This bibliography ‘Selected sources in global mental health<\/a><\/strong> (downloadable document), which I compiled in 2017, can help you find more reading materials related to global mental health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A new database, the Global Mental Health Assessment Database<\/strong><\/a>, aims to give open access to tools designed or adapted for use in low- and middle-income countries, with displaced populations, and what is known as the Global South.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026 get the news in global mental health:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I started the newsletter Global Mental Health Unboxed<\/a><\/strong>, where you can get the latest events, publications, job vacancies and resources – read it here <\/a><\/strong>and subscribe if you would like to keep updated.

This website has an events in global mental health<\/a><\/strong> page where you can keep informed about upcoming conferences, talks, webinars and open lectures all over the world, as far as I can find them. You can sign up to the newsletter of the Movement for Global Mental Health<\/a><\/strong> for general advocacy, services and partnership news, and check out the website of the related Centre for Global Mental Health<\/a><\/strong> for research and events news. A great source for news, research, ongoing projects, and resources is the knowledge hub of the Mental Health Innovation Network<\/a><\/strong> – you can connect to researchers and practitioners, browse the forum, follow vacancies and find links to organizations working in the field of mental health from all over. Look out also for the United for Global Mental Health<\/strong><\/a> organization, which has been active in the UN General Assembly and started the Speak Your Mind campaign. A UK Global Mental Health ministerial summit in 2018 produced this declaration<\/strong><\/a>, and a 2019 summit held in Amsterdam advanced the visibility<\/a><\/strong> of mental health issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026 get an education in global mental health:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

If you are looking for a Master programme, choosing may be difficult. I can recommend from personal experience the joint MSc in Global Mental Health<\/a> <\/strong>run by London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and King’s College London – the degree takes place in London, UK<\/strong>. Another strong contender is the MSc in Global Mental Health<\/a><\/strong> run by the University of Glasgow, which takes place in Glasgow, Scotland<\/strong>. University of Edinburgh, Scotland<\/strong>, has a recently-launched (as of 2020) MSc in Global Mental Health and Society<\/a><\/strong>. Usually such degrees can be studied full-time for 1 year or part-time for 2 years. Queen Mary University of London has MSc courses in topics such as Public Mental Health<\/a><\/strong> and also Mental Health: Cultural and Global Perspectives in Mental Health Care<\/a><\/strong>, available also as a distance learning option. The Lisbon Institute of Global Mental Health in Portugal<\/strong> has an International Master in Mental Health Policy and Services<\/a><\/strong> programme. There are universities which offer global mental health courses as part of their curriculum (usually housed in departments or institutes of global health); one example is Columbia University in the US, whose Global Mental Health Program runs Master programmes<\/a><\/strong>. Other examples in the US<\/strong> are University of Washington’s Global Mental Health Program<\/a><\/strong> and the Global Mental Health Program run by Yale<\/a><\/strong>.  Harvard University has the GMH@Harvard<\/a><\/strong> initiative, which also has interesting events, occasional fellowships and the Global Mental Health: Trauma and Recovery Certificate Program<\/a><\/strong>. John Hopkins University runs its own Global Mental Health<\/strong><\/a> research programme, and William James College in Boston has a Center of Excellence for Multicultural and Global Mental Health<\/strong><\/a>.  In Canada<\/strong>, McGill University has a Global Mental Health program<\/a><\/strong> of research and training, which stresses more on transcultural psychiatry and offers an interesting string of events, while recently the University of Toronto has started to develop their own Global Mental Health<\/a><\/strong> program. In Australia<\/strong>, the University of Melbourne has a Global and Cultural Mental Health Unit<\/a><\/strong> which works to improve mental health care in low-resource settings. In Norway<\/strong>, University of Bergen has started a Global Mental Health Research Group <\/a><\/strong>where academics work on projects related to improving mental health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In case you want to undertake a PhD in global mental health, you may want to start by thinking about the topic you would like to engage with. You can easily find researchers working in the area through their publications and institutional affiliations. Projects in global mental health offer a great opportunity to conduct original research, and there is sometimes additional funding for a studentship along the bigger projects. Contact the researchers whose work you are interested in and follow your favourite projects. Research in global mental health is carried out in more institutions than I can list here and in many different disciplines – there is plenty of space for creating your own original contribution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026 work in global mental health as a clinician\/practitioner\/field worker:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Check out my newsletter, Global Mental Health Unboxed<\/a><\/strong>, for job vacancies. There are several avenues for such work:<\/p>\n\n\n\n