GlobalMentalHealth@Harvard is an interdisciplinary initiative that aspires to elevate the profile of mental health as a fundamental public good and universal human right. GMH@Harvard launched in response to the unmet needs for mental health care in all countries. The world needs radically scaled up efforts to promote mental health—through policy, prevention, treatment, and other actions to enable recovery from mental disorders—and to reduce the colossal suffering and loss to individuals, families, communities, and nations.
The GMH@Harvard Initiative is a joint effort of the Harvard Medical School, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Harvard Global Health Institute. We envision a world where mental health is valued and realized for all. We work towards this goal by focusing on transforming global mental health through education, research, innovation, and engagement.
Our Vision is a world where mental health is valued and achieved for all.
Our Mission is to foster a collaborative and cross-disciplinary academic community dedicated to transforming mental health of the world’s population through education, research, innovation, and engagement.
These events serve as occasions to engage students and faculty, and showcase exemplary research and practice.
Read here interviews with those actively working in the field of global mental health and blog posts written by our Ambassador Board members.
Interested in writing or being interviewed? We have a diverse community at Harvard and beyond with varying degrees of experiences and stories to share – and we want to hear from you! Whether you are actively working in the field of global mental health or have in the past we welcome you to write a short piece about your work and insight for others. Pieces from all career levels – student organizations, clinical work, research, non-profit management, etc. – will be considered so that we can capture a wide array of perspectives and voices throughout our community.
Our Priority Workstreams Initiative will seed, scale, and sustain a set of work-packages which seek to transform mental health globally. The Initiative has identified priority work-streams that seek to address five structural barriers:
The GMH@Harvard Steering Committee sets strategy, defines goals and objectives, designs activities, reviews progress and raises philanthropic support for the initiative.
Through a combination of teaching, networking, collaborative research and engagement with other institutions, innovators, and communities, we seek to build the capacity of future generations of scholars in this field and to resolve the most pressing challenges in global mental health.
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The goal of this Fellowship Program is to strengthen capacity for global mental health implementation science in South and Central Asia and/or East Africa. The Fellowship Program is a joint initiative of the Aga Khan University’s Brain and Mind Institute and the GMH@Harvard Initiative.
The program is based upon a cooperative three-party relationship between GMH@Harvard, the faculty supervisor, and the student.
