#MHForAll Webinar Series
We regularly host webinars exploring various aspects and intersections of mental health, showcasing the transformative work being led by GMHAN members.
These webinars offer diverse perspectives from the field, including academics, UN agency representatives, civil society advocates, grassroots leaders, donors and more! Sessions are designed to spark thinking and provide insights into what global mental health means today, how it is practised and how change can happen. All attendees have access to live transcripts in over 100 languages!
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World Mental Health Day Webinar: Lived Experiences Heard - Real Voices, Real Change
9th October, 12PM GMT | 2PM CEST | 5:30PM IST - 75 Minutes
This World Mental Health Day, the World Health Organization, World Federation for Mental Health, United for Global Mental Health and the Global Mental Health Action Network are hosting a special webinar focusing on this year's theme “Lived Experiences Heard: Real Voices, Real Change." We will discuss how people with lived experience can be meaningfully engaged in shaping mental health policy, services and practice. With experts by experience from three continents, and representatives from all three organisations, we will explore practical examples of meaningful participation. Speakers will consider what is needed to ensure lived experience is not simply heard, but shapes policy decisions and drives lasting change.
The webinar will also mark the launch of WHO’s guide, Supporting the transition to community-based mental health and social care: practical guide to the deinstitutionalization of psychiatric hospitals. The discussion will explore what deinstitutionalisation means for the rights and dignity of people living with mental health conditions, and the vital role of people with lived experience in shaping and delivering this work. Speakers will share how the guide can support the transition from institutional care towards rights-based, person-centred mental health and social care in the community.
Decolonising Global Public Health Workshop & Global Launch
5 September 2026, 15:00–20:00 CAT · CTICC, Cape Town
Convened by the Immediate Past President of the World Federation of Public Health Associations, GMHAN, NOURISH GLOBAL, the University of Cape Town and partners including the Indigenous Determinants of Health Alliance and the Planetary Health Alliance (Johns Hopkins), this workshop creates a learning space to understand and apply decolonising approaches, centring Indigenous knowledge systems, human rights and accountability. Opening with an Indigenous/local welcome, it moves through discussions on defining decolonisation, identity and power, mental health through Indigenous worldviews, human rights and accountability, and culture and social design.
This event will conclude with the global launch of a groundbreaking Short Term Action Group (STAG) on Indigenous Equity and Decolonising Practice hosted by the Global Mental Health Action Network in partnership with NOURISH GLOBAL. This STAG is guiding the strategic decolonising governance work within GMHAN. It will also be establishing an Indigenous Working Group within GMHAN, and developing the NOURISH GLOBAL Network.
Recent #MHForAll Webinars:
Webinar: Beyond the High-Level Meeting on Non-Communicable Diseases and Mental Health
Webinar: State of the World’s Mental Health Today
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