Please note the course details apply to 2026 entry.
Scholarships available, see Fees & Funding section for more information.
Global Mental Health MSc is jointly run by King’s College London and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, providing a unique course of study for students who wish to gain a comprehensive understanding of the issues surrounding the discipline of global mental health. You will acquire the knowledge and skills required to design, implement and evaluate mental health programmes in low resource settings as well as learning how to conduct and critically evaluate research. Our course constitutes an excellent preparation for careers in policy, research and work in international agencies.
My experience in the Global Mental Health program at King's College London has been nothing short of transformative. King's has offered me a comprehensive and fulfilling educational journey from an engaging teaching style to lectures with global leaders on different subjects.
Across the world, and especially in low and middle-income countries, most people who have mental health problems are not supported by trained professionals, or able to access evidence-based treatments. Global mental health is about changing that situation – investigating the needs of people in different settings and formulating the most locally appropriate and feasible way to better support them.
You will learn how to develop policies, systems, services and clinical interventions as well as epidemiological and other research methods used to evaluate services and interventions.
The course will prepare you for work in the governmental and non-governmental sectors, as a policy advisor, global mental health researcher or (clinical - for those who have already been trained as clinicians) academic.
We will use a delivery method that will ensure students have a rich, exciting experience from the start. Face to face teaching will be complemented and supported with innovative technology so that students also experience elements of digital learning and assessment.
If you would like further details about this course, please contact:
Dr Valentina Iemmi
v.iemmi@kcl.ac.uk
Dr Ritsuko Kakuma
ritsuko.kakuma@lshtm.ac.uk
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