Global Mental Health
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Global Mental Health MSc
One of the reasons I moved to London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine was because of the opportunity to create an MSc in Global Mental Health.
Despite increasing amounts of evidence of the burden of mental illnesses and the comparative lack of mental health services in low and middle income countries, the topic of Global Mental Health has not been taken up by academic public health institutions. For that reason, the School and King's College London Institute of Psychiatry have joined forces and will, in September 2012, launch the first residential taught course MSc in Global Mental Health.
The establishment of the course represents a major step toward creating a cohort of experts and practitioners who have the skills necessary to address the enormous challenge of improving the lives of those who live with mental illnesses. In addition, the course will offer students the opportunity to study and work with many of the leading academics and researchers in the field.
This is an exciting time in the field of Global Mental Health and I am certain that the creation of the MSc will prove to be a milestone.
Global Mental Health MSc
Melanie Abas is a clinical senior lecturer in psychiatry now based at King's College, London Institute of Psychiatry who has lived in Africa and in New Zealand working in mental health epidemiology, teaching and policy. She works with partners in universities, ministries of health and NGOs in several countries on mental health education, on capacity building in task-sharing interventions for common mental disorders, and on research.
Global Mental Health MSc
Graham Thornicroft is professor of community psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry and King's College London and conducts research related to (i) cost effectiveness of community mental health service interventions, (ii) stigma and discrimination related to mental illness, and (iii) global mental health.
