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What better way to spend World Mental Health Day? Understanding policy influence in mental health.

Jessica Mackenzie, a Reserach Fellow at ODI, shares some key take home points from a recent policy engagement workshop run with GCC grantees in Seattle.
Author(s): 
Jessica Mackenzie
Post date: 
17 Oct 2014
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The Friendship Bench: What we're learning through implementing a trial to address common mental disorders in primary care in Zimbabwe

In this post, Dixon Chibanda discusses the ‘Friendship Bench Project’, a brief psychological intervention delivered by lay health workers for common mental disorders.
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13 Oct 2014
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World Mental Health Day 2014 blog series: Week 3

Throughout October, we will post a response from one of the MHIN community, who will share a range of perspectives, experiences and insights on what this year's theme of 'Living with Schizophrenia' means to them.
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13 Oct 2014
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Going Global with 7 Canadian Mental Health Examples

Her Excellency Sharon Johnston shares her experiences working with seven Canadian innovative intiatives. This blog is a part of the collection of innovations launched for Canada's Mental Illness Awareness Week.
Author(s): 
Sharon Johnston
Post date: 
6 Oct 2014
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World Mental Health Day 2014 blog series: Week 2

Throughout October, we will post a response from one of the MHIN community, who will share a range of perspectives, experiences and insights on what this year's theme of 'Living with Schizophrenia' means to them.
Post date: 
6 Oct 2014
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World Mental Health Day 2014 blog series: Week 1

Throughout October, we will post a response from one of the MHIN community, who will share a range of perspectives, experiences and insights on what the theme of 'living with schizophrenia' means to them.
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1 Oct 2014
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Democratising capacity strengthening in research and practice

This week, we celebrate the theme of capacity building in research and practice, as Dr Erica Frank, founder of NextGenU, an online innovation in capacity building for health care practice, takes part in MHIN’s first webcast.
Author(s): 
Lucy Lee
Post date: 
15 Sep 2014
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Reflections on SOCAP's First Mental Health Panel

Darla Brewer, Health Theme Coordinator for SOCAP14, reflects on this year's mental health panel and highlights that take home message that investing in mental health is key.
Author(s): 
Darla Brewer
Post date: 
11 Sep 2014
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What's all the buzz about social entrepreneurship and global mental health?

Social entrepreneurship and global mental health: "At the intersection of money and meaning."
Author(s): 
Grace Ryan
Post date: 
1 Sep 2014
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Wanted: Investors to transform global mental health

Grand Challenges Canada's Karlee Silver explains how donors can enable impact in global mental health.
Author(s): 
Karlee Silver
Post date: 
1 Sep 2014
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StrongMinds: Taking an innovative therapy to an unprecedented scale

John Drain and Sean Mayberry from StrongMinds explain how local context and culture impact scalability
Author(s): 
John Drain
Sean Mayberry
Post date: 
26 Aug 2014
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Innovation for maternal mental health screening in South Africa

Thandi van Heyningen and PMHP team members explain why an ultra-short tool was needed to detect maternal mental health disorders in South Africa, and how they developed their own
Author(s): 
Thandi van Heyningen
Landon Myer
Mark Tomlinson
Sally Field
Simone Honikman
Post date: 
21 Aug 2014
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What social entrepreneurship can teach us

Sean Kidd explains how his interest in social entrepreneurship as a lens for exploring mental health innovations has evolved over ten years of service delivery and research
Author(s): 
Sean Kidd
Post date: 
19 Aug 2014
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World Humanitarian Day 2014: Courage, Resilience, and the Need for “Force Protection”

In honor of World Humanitarian Day, James Shultz and Clara Gesteira Santos ask us to recognize the commitment and resilience of humanitarian workers and call for better physical and psychological protection
Author(s): 
James Shultz
Clara Gesteira
Post date: 
18 Aug 2014
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A United Front for Global Mental Health

The second All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) session on global mental health asks what the UK has done to improve mental health around the world so far, and what needs to be done to move forward.
Author(s): 
Grace Ryan
Shamaila Usmani
Post date: 
14 Aug 2014
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Mental Health Matters: Youth and Mental Health

In honor of this year's International Youth Day (IYD2014) theme "Mental Health Matters", Marguerite Regan explains why we need to talk about youth and mental health, what is being done nationally and internationally to improve young people's mental health, and how to keep the conversation from from IYD2014 going.
Author(s): 
Marguerite Regan
Post date: 
12 Aug 2014
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Have Your Say on the Treatment Gap in Global Mental Health

Victoria de Menil and Valentina Iemmi describe the proceedings of the UK's first joint hearing on global mental health.
Author(s): 
Victoria de Menil
Valentina Iemmi
Post date: 
8 Aug 2014
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Using Theory of Change? You need a champion

Author(s): 
Lucy Lee
Post date: 
11 Jun 2014
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Reinventing the wheel- the trouble with knowledge exchange

Author(s): 
Marguerite Regan
Post date: 
5 Jun 2014
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The Mental Health Innovation Network: why it matters now

Building communities of practice is not new to public health. Or even mental health. There are great examples of expert and advocate networks catering to the professional and educational needs of mental health stakeholders regionally and nationally. So what about the global mental health community? Could it benefit from a similar network?
Author(s): 
Vikram Patel
Post date: 
5 Jun 2014

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