Foundations of Global Mental Health

The curriculum also curates the key messages from the World Mental Health Report published by World Health Organization in 2022 (https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240049338). The course takes a life course approach and focuses on determinants and risk factors for mental health within a public health framework. Besides the two instructors, who were the lead editors of the Commission, the course includes a selection of leading experts as guest instructors for specific sessions. Along with GHP 208 Global Mental Health Delivery: From Research to Practice, offered in Spring 2, this course forms the core of the interdisciplinary concentration in Population Mental Health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/population-mental-health/).