The World Health Organization (WHO) released its most extensive analysis of world mental health in 20 years with the “World Mental Health Report” and a panel of experts discussed the report at the GMHAN Annual meeting earlier this month.

Our webinar covered a range of themes related to the topic of mental health in emergency settings including a list of the most common mental health issues in emergencies, advice for civil society organisations, the role of governments, lessons learned, gender-based violence, and addressing the mental health of migrants who are often undocumented.

This month’s Mental Health for All Webinar covered the complex topic of Climate Change and Mental Health: impact, prevention, integrated action during disasters and research opportunities for academics. 

On Tuesday 29th March, 2022, our #MHForAll webinar series brought together a panel of experts to discuss the importance of integrating mental health services into Universal Health Coverage (UHC).

View our latest webinar on Covid-19 and mental health.

Our webinar The Effects of Conversion Therapy on the LGBTQIA+ Community, in the Mental Health For All series explored how members of the LGBTQIA+ community across the world are under pressure to be 'treated' for their sexual orientation and gender identity.

On Tuesday 25th January, 2022, our #MHForAll webinar series brought together a panel of experts to discuss what it means to have truly meaningful youth participation when it comes to mental health.

At the World Health Assembly the Comprehensive Mental Health Action Plan was updated and agreed for 2021-2030, UNICEF launched its flagship State of the World’s Children Report (focusing on mental health for the first time ever) and there has been increasing research and reporting on the impact of COVID-19 on mental health. 

On 30th November, our #MentalHealthforAll webinar invited panellists to discuss the crucial need for the integration of mental health into universal health coverage (UHC) and the challenges faced at the national level in doing so.

our panellists emphasised how the criminalisation of suicide continues to be a key issue across the field of global mental health. Earlier

It was clear from all of our speakers that closing the mental health data gap is crucial to stepping up progress for mental health globally, and that there is an urgent need to strengthen systems and capacity building around this.

Earlier in the week, we had the pleasure to welcome our viewers to a webinar entitled Substance use and mental health: challenges, opportunities and first lessons during the COVID-19 outbreak. The session was part of the ongoing series, co-hosted by United for Global Mental Health and its partners, and was organised with the support of the WHO.

Together with the Lancet Psychiatry, Mental Health Innovation Network, MHPSS.net, and with support from members of the Global Mental Health Network, we devised a new, weekly webinar series bringing in mental health policy makers and practitioners, advocates with lived experience, and researchers exploring the latest on COVID-19, to discuss and share the latest knowledge on COVID-19 and mental health.

Psychosis is not very visible in the global mental health discussion, which is actually quite surprising, as governments tend to think that psychosis should be a priority and their budgets tend to be allocated to this.

Speakers included Zeinab Hijazi (UNICEF), Chiara Servili (WHO), Matt Hughsam (citiesRISE), Yves Miel Zuniga (MentalHealthPH), Aviwe Fuanani (Waves For Change), and Joanna Lai (UNICEF).

n April 2020, as the world went into lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a small group of experts in the Global Mental Health space came together with United for Global Mental Health to bring you a series of informative webinars about how this pandemic is, and will, affect mental health systems, programmes and policies globally.

There has been a historic neglect in funding for mental health. Less than 2% of health budgets is spent on mental health globally, and this is less than 1% in low-middle income countries. COVID-19 has had a devastating impact around the world, and has made this issue more critical than ever.