Webinars

This is a webinar series on Climate Change and Mental Health "Keeping our Planet in Mind" hosted jointly by the Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health and the Centre for Global Mental Health at LSHTM.

This webinar brings together development professionals from DFID/FCDO and civil society to formally launch the DFID/FCDO Theory of Change and Position Paper on mental health and psychosocial disabilities, as well as a new K4D-DFID Topic Guide on mental health for development professionals.

A live recording of the UPSIDES two-part webinar on Peer Support in Israel and Germany. This webinar was conducted by the Germany UPSIDES team and hosted by the Mental Health Innovation Network.

In this webinar, researchers from Uganda discuss the impact that peer support has already had on mental health care in their countries. Researchers from Tanzania share their journey from peer-delivered HIV care to the creation of a new peer support intervention for people with psychosocial disabilities.

This landmark conference hosted by the Royal African Society, the Centre for Global Mental Health and the Mental Health Innovation Network (held at Wellcome Trust) highlighted current innovations in Africa and the need for real commitments on investment, awareness, policy and implementation. On 20 November, nearly 200 experts, advocates, researchers and practitioners from across Africa and the UK gathered in London to discuss how to bring these new approaches to those who need them. We are excited to be able to provide recordings of the lectures, panel speeches and innovation presentation that took place by African leaders at this event.

This is a webinar to commemorate and honour the life and work of Dr Chesmal Siriwardhana who was an Associate Professor in Global Mental Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. The webinar focuses on mental health in post-conflict and post-natural disaster populations.

This webinar hosted by WHO Europe aims to raise awareness of masculinities and mental health help-seeking behaviours.

Supported by the Speak your Mind Campaign and hosted by the Mental Health Innovation Network, this webinar series invites speakers leading on human rights approaches and frameworks for mental health from around the world to share the challenges and lessons they have learned through their work. The first webinar of this series will focus on the introduction of Human Rights frameworks within the umbrella of mental health advocacy and programming.

A group of experts discuss Universal Health Coverage as one of the targets of the Sustainable Development Goals and the theme of the World Health Day this year, hence 2019 being the year to advocate for UHC given that mental health is an integral component of UHC.

In this lunchtime seminar hosted by the Centre for Global Mental Health, Dr. Soumitra Pathare and Jasmine Kalha from QualityRights Gujarat shared their experiences taking a rights-based approach to mental health system reform in India.

MHPSS.net was pleased to host the webinar "Faith Matters in Humanitarian Response : How sensitivity to religious and spiritual identities can contribute to mental health & psychosocial support" on 13th December 2018.

The Time to Act on Global Mental Event, organized by United for Global Mental Health was the first dedicated platform directed at advancing action on global mental health at the 73rd United Nations General Assembly.

This talk presents some of the findings from a large-scale, Australian qualitative study which explored how depression and health seeking behaviours are modulated by culture in Sri Lankan migrants and Anglo Australians.

In this webinar key speakers discuss how the EU can support achieving 'Health for All' and the human rights perspective of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

This webinar, organized by MHPSS.net, in partnership with the IASC MHPSS Reference Group, providing a platform to learn and share experiences with two field experts, Dr. Julian Eaton and Salam Gómez.

MHIN Africa kicks off its official launch with a webinar explaining why mental health stakeholders in Africa must join forces.

An overview of issues around mental health and psychosocial wellbeing of Eritreans along the transit route from Eritrea to the North.

Recording of the CGMH seminar on Poverty and Mental Disorders held at Kings College London featuring Prof Crick Lund, Dr Rochelle Burgess and Dr Maelenn Guerchet

Dementia is a now recognised as a global epidemic. On May 28th, Dr Tarun Dua shared her experiences on how the global mental health community is now responding to this challenge.

Recorded by the Wilson Centre, this webcast discusses the need integrate mental health into maternal health programs.

Dr. Peter Ventevogel, Senior Mental Health Expert from UNHCR, Geneva, discusses how to support mental health systems to cope with the emerging mental health and psychosocial needs of refugees living in urban settings.

Mr. Dag Rekve, technical officer from the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse at the WHO, hosts a live question & answer webinar session to discuss how to effectively tackle the harmful effects of alcohol use at national levels.

Webinar hosted by Consultant Psychiatrist, Dr Peter Hughes, on the Psychosocial Aspects of the Ebola Emergency and Response

The second webinar in the Global Integration series by Member Care Associates, Dr. Paul Bolton discusses his collaborative work in developing mental health services in low resource countries in addition to his personal experiences and suggestions for working in the field.

A recording of MHINs first webinar, with Professor Erica Frank, founder of NextGenU.org.