Global Mental Health

The course aims to provide people with the knowledge and skills to initiate, develop and oversee mental health policies and/or programmes in low resource settings, and to conduct and critically evaluate research on Global Mental Health.

By the end of the course, students will able to: demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the mental health challenges facing low resource settings; devise locally appropriate and feasible strategies to reduce the burden of mental disorders; develop research protocols to investigate key issues in Global Mental Health including epidemiological, intervention and policy-related questions, and apply research skills to monitor and evaluate mental health programmes.