Innovations

The mental health integration approach aims to ensure citizens with comprehensive, specialized and high-quality mental health care within primary care.

Empowering primary health care staff to better diagnose mental health conditions and developing an effective and innovative patient interview approach for quick and easy diagnosis of and dealing with mental health conditions.

Integrating MHPSS services at the community level in order to enhance service access for populations at risk of severe mental distress and to reduce the linked dual-stigma of mental health conditions and gender-based violence.

Research consortium focused on mental health scale-up in low- and middle-income countries

Trained and supervised lay health worker stationed on a “Friendship Bench” delivers problem-solving therapy.

Integrated mental health and psychosocial support to refugee populations in South Sudan.

Mental health system strengthening in partnership with researchers, Ministries of Health and non-governmental organisations

Integrating mental health service delivery into primary health care system in India through a health systems strengthening approach in partnership with researchers, ministries of health and non-governmental organisations.

The Healthy Activity Program is a lay-counsellor delivered treatment for severe depression.

The adaptation and implementation of WHO’s School Mental Health Program through an online training platform and chat-bot for school teachers in Pakistan.

Mental health integration into primary care and services for MDRTB/HIV/AIDs in Lesotho.

Development and pilot evaluation of an integrated intervention that targets IPV and its psycho-social health consequences in a refugee camp within a low-income setting.

Training healthcare staff and paraprofessionals to provide mental healthcare and expand community and family supports

A mHealth screening platform to mass screen and provide counseling treatment to individuals with depression and/or anxiety through CMHWs.