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Innovators, we want you!

Ember's call-out to grassroots innovators in global mental health.
Author(s): 
Grace Ryan
Post date: 
20 Aug 2019
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Indigenous Mental Health - streamlining platforms for knowledge

This blog specifically focuses on indigenous mental health including existing platforms, initiatives, innovations and research/implementation projects available.
Author(s): 
Artin A. Mahdanian, MD, FRCPC
Post date: 
16 Aug 2019
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Mental health of incarcerated people in Africa

Discussing the idea of the “revolving door” between incarceration and the mental healthcare system, this blog draws attention to the fact the mental health of those incarcerated in low- and middle-income countries is often left out of conversations within the global mental health movement.
Author(s): 
Helen Jack
Khameer Kidia
Aish Lovett
Hye Rim Kwon
Post date: 
26 Jul 2019
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Circumpolar video project aims to curb suicides, encourage resilience

This blog discusses the Arctic Council's Project CREATeS, a video project aiming to curb suicides and encourage resilience among circumpolar youth.
Author(s): 
MHIN Team
Post date: 
25 Jul 2019
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Global Mental Health - What's Up?

In this great overview of the recent developments and directions of the field, authors' Kelly O'Donnell, Julian Eaton and Michele Lewis O'Donnel highlight several recent markers over the past year that collectively reflected crucial movement and action for global mental health. This article is the latest in an ongoing series of articles to orient a diverse audience of interested readers in mental health, and across sectors to the field of global mental health.
Author(s): 
Kelly and Michele O'Donnell
Julian Eaton
Michele O'Donnell
Post date: 
3 Jul 2019
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Inclusion drives action: How young people will change Global Mental Health

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.
Author(s): 
Chantelle Booysen
Post date: 
13 Jun 2019
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A rights-based approach to mental health financing

Faraaz Mahomed, Program Officer at Open Society Foundations, highlights the organization's rights-based and locally-led approach to confronting the challenge of limited access to culturally appropriate mental health. The article also addresses why the proposed solutions to the under-prioritization of mental health need to be about so much more than just increased access to medical care.
Author(s): 
Faraaz Mahomed
Post date: 
12 Jun 2019
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Mapping out a 'blueprint' for mental health advocacy

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.
Author(s): 
Onaiza Qureshi
Julian Eaton
Post date: 
3 Jun 2019
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The journey of making mental health a development priority

This blog from Dixon Chibanda (Friendship Bench) and Elisha London (United for Global Mental Health) raises that it's now time to act on making mental health a development priority.
Author(s): 
Dixon Chibanda
Elisha London
Post date: 
30 May 2019
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STARS: developing a new WHO psychological digital intervention for adolescents

This blog delves deeper into the STARS Project addressing barriers to psychological interventions with a new WHO psychological digital intervention for adolescents.
Author(s): 
Jen Hall
Ken Carswell
Post date: 
24 May 2019
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Project Ember: nurturing community mental health care across the globe

Project Ember is here and is a collaboration between MHIN and the SHM Foundation created to help grassroots mental health organisations to overcome these barriers so that their work can be strengthened, sustained and scaled up.
Author(s): 
Iona Gaskell
Natasha Salaria
Post date: 
16 May 2019
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Using Theory of Change in Prime and my PhD: Key Lessons Learned

Erica Breuer discusses her PhD research born from her work as project manager on PRIME, evaluating how she could use theory of change to design and evaluate complex interventions across five low- and middle-income countries using PRIME as a case example.
Author(s): 
Erica Breuer
Post date: 
16 May 2019
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Addressing the treatment gap for perinatal depression

This blog is from PhD student Tasneem Kathree who began her research in perinatal depression when the opportunity was presented in the PRIME South Africa project.
Author(s): 
Tasneem Kathree
Post date: 
10 May 2019
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¿Por qué el último evento de El Niño no cambió las tasas de depresión en las comunidades afectadas del norte de Perú? // Why Did The Latest El Niño Event Not Change Depression Rates In Affected Communities Of Northern Peru?

[ENG] In this blog, Elaine C. Flores share an overview of the results of a secondary data analysis which liked ecological and individual level assessments to evaluate the related effects of 2015-2017 El Niño events in the north coast of Peru on the mental health of the affected communities. [ESP] Elaine C. Flores es una médica peruana epidemióloga y candidata a doctorado en el Centro de Salud Mental Global en la London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), en la facultad de Epidemiología y Salud de la Población. Sus principales áreas de interés incluyen el impacto en la salud mental de los desastres naturales y causados por el hombre, incluidos el cambio climático y los factores sociales y ambientales.
Author(s): 
Elaine C. Flores
Post date: 
10 May 2019
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Mental health, NTDs and universal health coverage: no health without mental health

Julian Eaton talks mental health, NTDs and universal health coverage.
Author(s): 
Julian Eaton
Post date: 
11 Apr 2019
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Rebalancing Power in Global Mental Health

This blog summarises the popular symposium held at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) on Rebalancing Power in Global Mental Health, exploring the historical dominance of the global North in knowledge generation in global health.
Author(s): 
Natasha Salaria
Asmae Doukani
Post date: 
5 Apr 2019
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Life after ZIKA: The Juntos Programme

This blog has been written by Silvia Pinheiro, a mother from Brazil sharing her experience of raising a child with congenital Zika syndrome and becoming a facilitator in a social support program which provided her with the coping skills to deal with her distress.
Author(s): 
MHIN Team
Post date: 
29 Mar 2019
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#BridgetheCareGap - Lobbying Effectively for Social Change

In this blog, director of Mariwala Health Initative in India, Rajvi Mariwala discusses the contextual factors and gaps that led to the creation of the #BridgetheCareGap national advocacy campaign and details how it lobbies for politicians to implement the Indian Mental Health Act (2017) and the National Mental Health Policy.
Author(s): 
Raj Mariwala
Post date: 
27 Mar 2019
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Paradigm Shift: Peru leading the way in reforming mental health services

In this blog, Patricio Marquez and Jaime Nicolas Bayona Garcia share Peru's successes with improving mental health services within the region and highlight lessons learned along the way for continuing the momentum.
Author(s): 
Patricio Marquez
Post date: 
26 Mar 2019
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Una perspectiva personal hacia una visión integrada de la salud mental en América Latina // A personal perspective towards an integrated view of Mental health in Latin America

[ESP] La Dra. Elaine C. Flores es ciudadana peruana y candidata a doctorado en el Centro para la Salud Mental Global de la Escuela de Higiene y Medicina Tropical de Londres. En este blog, da su perspectiva personal de su experiencia como co-fundadora de PLASMA, la plataforma de investigación social sobre salud mental en América Latina. [ENG] Dr. Elaine C. Flores is a Peruvian citizen and PhD candidate at the Centre for Global Mental Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. In this blog, she gives her personal perspective on her experience as co-founder of PLASMA - the Platform for Social Research on Mental Health in Latin America.
Author(s): 
Elaine C. Flores
Post date: 
7 Feb 2019

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