Three months ago United for Global Mental Health, with partners The Lancet Psychiatry, Mental Health Innovation Network (MHIN) and MHPSS.net, launched a weekly webinar series to bring together mental health experts and service providers to share the latest information, experiences and lessons from the frontlines of the pandemic around the world. 

The Global Mental Health Action Network (previously known as the ‘BluePrint Group’) held their first virtual Biannual Meeting of their 1000 members from 79 countries with six events over five weeks.

As some countries tentatively now begin to lift lockdown restrictions, whilst the pandemic unravels in those continents who had lagged behind epidemiologically, what has six weeks of insights and reflection by mental health experts and frontline workers revealed, and how can they inform how we build back better?