Blog

Valentina Iemmi is a Research Fellow in the Department of Health Policy and PhD candidate in the Department of Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. In this blog, she shares the results of her PhD research exploring the role of international actors investing in global mental health in low and middle income countries.

In this blog Joshua Abioseh Duncan writes about the Mental Health Coalition of Sierra Leone, an initiative that has brought meaningful engagement of people with lived experience of mental health conditions into discussions around policy and planning for mental health within the country as well as the capacity-building of mental health leadership. He shares the program's learning around what made their project successful and sustainable.

Dr. Crick Lund is a professor of Public Mental Health at the Alan J Flisher Centre for Public Mental Health at the University of Cape Town, as well as a professor of Global Mental Health and Development at the Centre for Global Mental Health. He is a panelist at the upcoming Mental Health in Africa conference, speaking to how to improve the public profile of mental health and buy-in from policy makers within the African continent and in this blog, he shares PRIME’s journey and lessons learned from implementation as well paving the way forward with ASSET.

In this blog, MHPSS Collaborative Senior Advisor, Carmen Valle tells us about how the organization has aligned their campaigning efforts towards this year’s World Suicide Prevention Day and World Mental Health Day

This blog from Meghana Devotta discusses Suicide Prevention India Foundation's use of Gatekeeper Training on India's youth - a WHO recommended suicide prevention strategy which aims to equip individuals with skills to be a first responder for someone in emotional distress and potentially suicidal.

This blog specifically focuses on indigenous mental health including existing platforms, initiatives, innovations and research/implementation projects available.

This blog discusses the Arctic Council's Project CREATeS, a video project aiming to curb suicides and encourage resilience among circumpolar youth.

This blog from Youth Leader Chantelle Booysen reflects on the past year with achievements from the #mymindourhumanity campaign as well as the new Policy Brief produced in collaboration with MHIN: Young People Will Transform Global Mental Health.

This blog introduces the BluePrint Group, an open membership organisation for individuals and organisations from a wide variety of backgrounds who are committed to catalysing action through consensus on policy priorities, clear communications and joint messaging for targeted events and decision-makers. The aim is to increase political and financial support for mental health at global and national level.