The Global Advocate

Financing

Brief: Financing mental health for all

With mental health at the forefront of the conversation in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the opportunity for once-in-a-generation change is being presented. The integration of mental health into universal health coverage (UHC) reforms during the run in to 2030 (the target year for the Sustainable Development Goals which include achieving UHC) is being promoted as a key pandemic response, recovery and preparedness element, and as we argued in our previous brief in this series, universal mental health coverage is also a fundamental right.

Mental health in India’s 2022 national budget

This year’s budget was one of those rare occasions when mental health got the attention of the Indian policy makers at the national level.

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.

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.

News, Rights, UHC

Member states demand greater advocacy and priority for mental health

Mental health was one of, if not the most, talked about health topic during Agenda Item 7 of the WHO Executive Board meeting.

News

WHO Executive Board to reflect on progress on mental health

The WHO Executive Board meeting will be held on January 24 to 29, 2022. The Executive Board is the key decision making body that meets ahead of the World Health Assembly (WHA); discussions there agree the agenda and resolutions to be considered for the WHA in May each year. 

Education, News

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. 

News

Getting to Know Young Leaders in Mental Health Advocacy

Countdown Global Mental Health 2030

GLOBAL AND NATIONAL ACTION IS NEEDED TO PROTECT THE MENTAL HEALTH OF YOUNG PEOPLE

Even before 2020 the mental health of young people was a huge concern. Deaths by suicide are often highest among young people - according to UNICEF, 1 young person aged 10-19 dies by suicide every 11 minutes.

HIV/TB, News

An opportunity this World AIDS Day

This World AIDS Day falls at the end of the most extraordinary year. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought unprecedented difficulties for all of us, not least the wave of mental health challenges, which are now putting pressure on already overburdened mental health services.