Education, News
A mental health tsunami in Tonga
By Dr Leonaitasi Hoponoa, founder of the Tonga Mental Health and Disabilities Association
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Knowledge Hub
Articles
HIV & TB, News, UHC
In case you missed it! Three key takeaways from the World Health Assembly 2022
Last month, health ministers from around the world gathered for the annual World Health Assembly. Our team at United for Global Mental Health followed along to see where and how mental health was addressed.
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News
An appeal for urgent support from Sri Lanka
This is a blog from CAN MH Lanka, a civil society organisation working with the Government of Sri Lanka to address the urgent mental health needs in the country.
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Systems, UHC
Brief: Mental health should be meaningfully integrated into UHC systems
Using new research, our latest brief highlights the need for, and the substantial mental and physical health benefits of, integrating mental health into UHC.
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News, Rights, Systems
One step forward, three steps back: progress and peril for USA mental health parity
As President of Well Being Trust, Benjamin F. Miller, PsyD, oversees the implementation of the foundation’s strategies and full portfolio of investments and partnerships to help Well Being Trust have a real-world impact on America’s mental health and addiction crisis.
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Education, News
Mental health in 2022 – from global to local
Accelerated by the impact of COVID-19, a growing cross section of society around the world is calling for greater action on mental health.
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News
United for Global Mental Health and International Initiative for Mental Health (IIML) form a partnership
IIMHL is delighted to confirm its formal collaboration with UnitedGMH in a shared mission to enable better mental health across the world.
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Education, News, Publications
Our 2022-2023 advocacy roadmap
This Global Mental Health Advocacy Roadmap 2022-2023 sets out an ambitious but achievable pathway towards realising our vision of a world where everyone, everywhere has someone to turn to in support of their mental health and wellbeing.
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Education, News
No excuses left to fight depression
Almost four years ago, in 2018, a group of researchers — including experts from disciplines such as economics, epidemiology, neuroscience, primary care, psychiatry, psychology, and public health from Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Italy, Japan, India, US, UK, the Netherlands, and Zimbabwe — were prompted by the scientific journal The Lancet in partnership with the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) to think about why depression remains a neglected global health crisis, despite abundant evidence that much can be done to prevent and aid recovery of people suffering from it even in resource-limited settings and to propose avenues for action.
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