“We’re at the start of a journey to build the world’s community-based mental health force, which is essential for addressing the vast unmet need for high quality mental health care,” Professor Vikram Patel said. “Our initiative uses both established and novel digital tools to leverage decades of clinical and implementation research, giving community health workers the power to implement evidence-based treatments for patients with depression.”

“The Lone Star Depression Challenge is a fantastic opportunity to build a project at scale in one of the largest states in the U.S.,”...

The goal of this project, which kicked off in early 2021, is to promote population mental health and well-being, reduce historic and emerging disparities, prevent mental health issues through scaling up evidence-based interventions, and build a new type of mental health workforce in communities throughout the United States.

“Our nation’s fragmented health system has created massive barriers for people who have mental health or addiction needs. Not having enough workforce is often blamed as part of that problem; however, we believe this is the wrong focus – it’s not about how...

Prof. Vikram Patel and Dr. John Naslund along with many other global mental health colleagues have recently published an important, and timely review in Lancet Psychiatry on the mental health impact of COVID-19 in low and middle income countries and how this calls us as a field and a global community to reimagine global mental health. Read the summary below and the full article...

Join an online study group focused on sharing knowledge and ideas about mental health studies and practices. The objective of this study group will be to host mainly informal conversations on various topics related to mental health to network, collaborate, and exchange people's thoughts and ideas from their lived, studying, and working experience. 

This study group is being organized by Yuri Sugimoto and Miao Xue, members of the GlobalMentalHealth@Harvard Ambassador Board. This group is open to individuals all over the world and at various stages of their career who are...