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CGMH Photo Contest Winners: "What does wellbeing mean to you?"

On World Health Day 2017 the Centre for Global Mental Health (CGMH) launched a photo contest, themed: “What does wellbeing mean to you?”. This blog post announces the winners of that competition along with the winning images.
Author(s): 
Asmae Doukani
Post date: 
15 Mar 2018
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Personal Growth: Lessons Learned from the Summer Institute

In this post, Global MINDS Fellow Paula Njeru reflects on her experience attending the Summer Institute 2018.
Author(s): 
MHIN Team
Post date: 
13 Dec 2017
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Chitwan: The district of one-horned rhinos and PRIME

Mallika Chaulagain describes her experiences learning about PRIME as the TPO Nepal Communication, Outreach, and Research Uptake Officer.
Author(s): 
Mallika Chaulagain
Post date: 
4 Dec 2017
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Opioid crisis: A global rethinking

Krithika Muthukumaran describes the global opioid dilemma through her dual lens of growing up in Chennai with a mother who is a palliative care physician, and experiencing the North American crisis after moving to Canada for her PhD.
Author(s): 
MHIN Team
Post date: 
30 Nov 2017
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Leaving No One Behind – 5th Global Mental Health Summit

We sat down for a Q&A with the Principal Coordinator for MGMH Charlene Sunkel who is also the Program Manager for the South African Federation for Mental Health (SAFMH) where she told us more about the upcoming summit.
Author(s): 
MHIN Africa
Charlene Sunkel
Post date: 
8 Nov 2017
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The voice of affected people can contribute to priority-setting in NTD research

This blog, written by Julian Eaton and Muhammad Jidda Assakin from Nigeria, who has lived with lymphatic filariasis for over 20 years, captures Mr Jidda's messages about his journey, needs, and priorities, which made an important contribution to setting research priorities for mental health, stigma and NTDs at the 2017 Coalition for Operational Research on Neglected Tropical Diseases (COR-NTD) conference in Baltimore, US.
Author(s): 
Julian Eaton
Post date: 
8 Nov 2017
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The impact of mental health & psychosocial programmes for adults affected by humanitarian emergencies

To mark EvidenceAid's Humanitarian Evidence Week 2017 (#HEW2017), Kelly Dickson and Mukdarut Bangpan contribute to our #MHPSSMatters campaign by discussing their recent report on mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) programmes for people affected by humanitarian crises in low- and middle-income countries.
Author(s): 
Kelly Dickson
Post date: 
7 Nov 2017
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A dream come true: Testimony from an "epileptic"

One of MHIN Africa’s Knowledge Exchange volunteer assistants, a registered nurse licensed by the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Uganda, shares with us his brave wife’s journey with epilepsy and how she overcame the challenges of social stigma through perseverance and resilience to finish her university education and become a land surveyor.
Author(s): 
MHIN Team
Post date: 
6 Nov 2017
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Can community-based psychosocial interventions help people with schizophrenia?

CGMH's Laura Asher discusses her innovation (RISE) and recently published systematic review to shed light on the best ways to support people with schizophrenia in LMIC.
Author(s): 
Laura Asher
Post date: 
6 Nov 2017
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Social Media & Mental Health: What does mental health support look like in the 21st century?

Sweta Pal and Pattie Gonsalves recount their World Mental Health Day 2017 celebrations, in which It’s Ok To Talk, Sangath and The American Center, New Delhi, hosted a Panel Discussion and Workshop preceded by a Twitter chat.
Author(s): 
Sweta Pal
Pattie Gonsalves
Post date: 
5 Nov 2017
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Participatory Arts: Mothers Make Art to Heal Minor Mental Health Trauma

This blog from Dr Lisa Watts looks at the beneficial relationship between art and mental health, in particular for mothers overcoming the trauma of birth.
Author(s): 
lisa watts
Post date: 
3 Nov 2017
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Unbreakable? Recognizing humanitarian stress and trauma

Cumulative, traumatic stress from war zones to nuclear catastrophes can affect humanitarian relief staff more than it is talked about. Kelly O'Donnell, a psychologist with 30 years of experience in the aid and humanitarian sectors, tackles how cumulative stress can affect one's functioning in these settings and what one can do to combat burnout.
Author(s): 
Kelly and Michele O'Donnell
Post date: 
17 Oct 2017
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Mental Health in the Workplace: Mental health literacy innovations for teachers and students across the globe

In this vlog, Dr Stan Kutcher discusses the importance of Mental Health in the Workplace for both teachers and students. He also discusses two exciting new innovations in mental health literacy, applicable to, and implemented in, both high-income and low-income countries with similar results.
Author(s): 
Stan Kutcher
Post date: 
13 Oct 2017
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Mental health: we all have a responsibility to tackle stigma

In this blog, the Director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine - Peter Piot - calls on all to share in the responsibility and play their part in tackling mental health stigma.
Author(s): 
MHIN Team
Post date: 
10 Oct 2017
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#GESummit17 – Reflections from Cape Town

Roxanne Keynejad reflects on her experiences at the Global Evidence Summit (GES) in Cape Town on 13th to 16th September 2017, highlighting a workshop run by the recently-launched Cochrane Global Mental Health discussing evidence-priorities in the field.
Author(s): 
Roxanne Keynejad
Post date: 
9 Oct 2017
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World Mental Health Day 2017: Let’s talk Workplace Mental Health!

This blog marks World Mental Health Day 2017 discussing this year's Workplace Mental Health theme, relevant resources and provides tips on how to raise awareness and engage via social networks in LMIC's- get involved!
Author(s): 
Niall James Holohan
Post date: 
4 Oct 2017
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Dreams do come true: How an mhGAP exchange project inspired a medical student to pursue a career in psychiatry

Dr Syed Bushra Imtiyaz recounts her experiences as part of an online exchange and practicum project organised by the mhGAP Kashmir programme.
Author(s): 
bushra syed
Post date: 
28 Sep 2017
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Stories of success at mhGAP Kashmir: What can we learn?

mhGAP Kashmir's Sayed Aqeel Hussain celebrates the recent success of an interactive exchange programme between medical students in the UK and Kashmir comparing mental health care systems in different cultures.
Author(s): 
Sayed Aqeel Hussain
Post date: 
28 Sep 2017
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The Importance of the First 100 Days of Life

This blog discusses the ACF International Conference On Child Health And Development, research uptake and 9 recommendations reached as main outcomes of the conference.
Author(s): 
Karine Le Roch
Fahmida Tofail
Cécile Bizouerne
Post date: 
21 Sep 2017
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How Technology is Transforming Mental Health Treatment Delivery in South Asia

This blog discusses how technology is increasingly being used as a form of mental health treatment in South Asia and takes a look at what is available online.
Author(s): 
Swati Kapoor
Post date: 
14 Sep 2017

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