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January

11 January 2022 — Online — Decolonisation and mental health by Stillpoint

12 January 2022 — Online — CAMH Special Issue on ‘Child and youth mental health & the global ecological crisis’ by the Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health

14 January 2022 — Online — Evidence Notes drop-in: Mental health by the Centre for Homelessness Impact

18 January 2022 — Online — Presenting findings of Assessment of MHPSS Service Delivery with Focus on Frontline Workers and Access for and Relevance to Health Care Workers Affected by Attacks on Health Care in Northwest Syria by WHO and MHPSS.net

18 January 2022 — Online — The Common Monitoring and Evaluation Framework for Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings Version 2.0 Launch – by the IASC MHPSS Reference Group

19 January 2022 — Online — How Do Social Contexts, Cultural Ideologies, and Cultural Tools Impact Youth Resilience? by UCL Catalyst Seminar Series in Children and Young People’s Mental Health

22 January 2022 — Online — Vanderbilt Critical Psychiatry Conference by Vanderbilt University

24 January 2022 — Online — Best Practices in Refugee and Immigrant Youth Training Series Session 1: Intersection of Trauma and Culture by Boston Children’s Hospital

25 January 2022 — Online — Shamiri: A Simple, Scalable, and Stigma-Free Mental Health Intervention for Adolescents in Kenya by Columbia University Seminar Series on Global Mental Health

25 January 2022 — Online — The Future of Youth Mental Health: Driving Forward Meaningful Participation by #MHforAll and United for Global Mental Health

25 January 2022 — Online — Launch: Policy Brief on COVID-19 and Mental Health by the Global Health Hub Germany

27 January 2022 — Online — Does DNA matter for social equality? by UCL Catalyst Seminar Series in Children and Young People’s Mental Health

27 January 2022 — Online — Interrogating ‘Care’, ‘Chronicity’ and Expansion of Patienthood : Ethnographic encounters from community mental health programs in India by the Culture and Community Mental Health and Global Mental Health Speaker Series, McGill University

29 January 2022 — Online — Youth Mental Health – Deploying solutions for youth mental resilience – by #LearningPlanet Festival

February

3 February 2022 — Online — The Equality Act: Essential services & mental health by Money and Mental Health Policy Institute

7-18 February 2022 — Online — Leadership in Mental Health Course by Sangath

8 February 2022 — Online — Understanding Individual Resilience – Building Skills for a Sustainable Recovery by the International Resilience Alliance and partners

8-10 February 2022 — Online — Collaborating to Build Fairer Communities by the Behavioural Science and Public Health Network 2022 conference of the Behavioural Science and Public Health Network

9 February 2022 — Online — UCL Catalyst Seminar Series in Children and Young People’s Mental Health

9 February 2022 — Online — Community Based Mental Health Care Orientation by the Psychosocial Centre of the IFRC

16 February 2022 — Online — Lancet-World Psychiatric Association Commission on Depression – Official Launch Webinar

16 February 2022 — Online — Mapping the Mental Health of Our Communities. Mental Health America’s Unique County and State Data

16 February 2022 — Online — Cohort Effects and Adolescent Mental Health Trends in Lebanon – Population Mental Health Forum Series by Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health

18 February 2022 — Online — Decolonizing Global Health Education by the Arnhold Institute for Global Health

22 February 2022 — Online — The Effects of Conversion Therapy on the LGBTQIA+ Community by #MHforAll and United for Global Mental Health seminar series

22 February 2022 — Online — Let the Science Speak for Itself: Lessons to Scale Up Psychological Treatments Worldwide by the Global & Local Center for Mental Health Disparities at Boston Medical Center & BU School of Medicine

24 February 2022 — Online — Mental health recovery tools and practices in South Asia by the University of Edinburgh GMH Network

24 February 2022 — Online — Webinar by the Global Mental Health Peer Network and the International Initiative for Mental Health Leadership

25 February 2022 — Online — Mental Health for All webinar by United for Global Mental Health

25 February 2022 — Online — Global Mental Health Innovation Imaginarium: Participatory Convening by The Global MINDS Collective and The MHPSS Collaborative

March

1 March 2022 — Online — Employment for persons with psychosocial disabilities by ENOSH and partners (register here)

1 March 2022 — London, UK and online — Effect of a Digital Intervention on Depressive Symptoms in Patients With Comorbid Hypertension or Diabetes in Brazil and Peru – At the Cutting Edge of Global Mental Health Research Seminar

7 March 2022 — London, UK and online — The Future of Addictions Research in Global Mental Health During and After the Covid-19 Pandemic – At the Cutting Edge of Global Mental Health Research Seminar (information forthcoming)

7-11 March 2022 — Munich, Germany — Global Mental Health in Low- and Middle-Income-Settings short course by the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy and partners at Ludwig-Maximilians-University hospital, Munich

8 March 2022 — Online — Mental health philanthropy: still in the shadows by Alliance and Strong Minds Mental Health Africa

8 March 2022 — Online — COVID-19 and Mental Health, a #MHforAll webinar by United for Global Mental Health and partners

11 March 2022 — Online — Children, Migration, and Mental Health Virtual Conference 2022 by the New School for Social Research and partners

12-13 March 2022 — Cambridge, UK — Integrating Mental Health into Primary Care: A Global Challenge conference by Students for Global Health

16 March 2022 — Online — UCL Catalyst Seminar Series in Children and Young People’s Mental Health

16 March 2022 — Copenhagen, Denmark — Therapy without therapists? The human factor in psychotherapy – past, present, and future by the University of Copenhagen

16 March 2022 — Online — Launch: MHPSS in CAAFAG Programmes Resource Package by the MHPSS Network

16 March 2022 — Online — Global Mental Health from Lambo to the Sustainable Development Goals by SUCCEED Africa Partnership

16-19 March 2022 — Online — The Power of Psychiatric Mental Health Nurses: Leading Innovations for Sustainable Health and Well-being 2022 conference by the International Society of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurses

19 March 2022 — Online — 6th Annual South Asian Mental Health Conference

22 March 2022 — Online — Monitoring Population-Level Mental Health and Well-Being: Why it Matters Now More than Ever Before by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

23 March 2022 — Online — MQ Mental Health and DATAMIND’s Data Science Meeting 2022

23 March 2022 — Online — Community Engagement within Research Uptake: Mental Health by the Global Health Network

23 March 2022 — Online — Black in White spaces: how systemic racism works in everyday life – At the Cutting Edge of Global Mental Health Research Seminar

24 March 2022 — Online — Policy in the Everyday: Exploring the realities of ‘community’ mental health systems in the Global South by the Star-C project

24 March 2022 — Online — Launch of “Nkabom: A Little Medicine, A Little Prayer” by Together for Mental Health

25 March 2022 — Online — Stigma in mental health: Is it coming from society or within mental health itself?  by Maudsley Learning

29 March 2022 — Online — Mental Health Financing Through Universal Health Coverage, a #MHforAll webinar by United for Global Mental Health and partners

29 March 2022 — Online — HLS Library Book Talk: Mental Health, Legal Capacity, and Human Rights by Harvard Law School

30 March 2022 — Online — Climate change & the mental health crisis – webinar series by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the Centre for Global Mental Health

30 March 2022 — Online — Breaking the cycle of poverty and mental illness among youth: The Perks and Perils of cash transfers by the Centre for Global Mental Health and partners

31 March 2022 — Online — Ensuring Quality in Psychological Support (EQUIP) digital platform and helpdesk launch by the World Health Organization and UNICEF

April

1 April 2022 — Online — People in their ecosystems seminar by the Dutch International Mental Health Hub

2-5 April 2022 — Online and in Budapest, Hungary — European Psychiatric Association 2022 Congress

5 April 2022 — Online — mhGAP Humanitarian Intervention Guide RCPsych Webinar by the Royal College of Psychiatrists

6 April 2022 — Online — Digital Therapeutics in the Mental Health and Substance Use Crisis by the American Psychological Association

7 April 2022 — Online — Experts by Experience – Peer support in Asian context by the Asian College of Schizophrenia Research (ACSR)

12 April 2022 — Online — Global Online Launch Event of QualityRights e-training programme by the World Health Organization

12 April 2022 — Online — Network Psychiatry: Learning from each other Webinar series by EUCOMS Learning

13 April 2022 — Online — Collective trauma and political crisis in Hong Kong since 2019 by King’s College London

13 April 2022 — Online — Scaling up mental health care in low resource settings: Where are we now? by King’s Global Health Institute

20 April 2022 — Online — UCL Catalyst Seminar Series in Children and Young People’s Mental Health

20 April 2022 — Online — The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Children’s Mental Health by the Population Mental Health Forum at Harvard University

21-23 April 2022 — Online — 43rd Annual Meeting “Explorations of Identity: Language, Embodiment, Intersectionality & Justice” of the Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture (scholarship available till 28 February)

26 April 2022 — Online — Competency of Non-Specialists in Global Mental Health: An Introduction to the WHO/UNICEF Ensuring Quality in Psychological Support (EQUIP) Platform by Columbia University

26 April 2022 — Online — Mental health and climate change #MHforAll webinar by United for Global Mental Health and partners

27 April 2022 — Online — Keeping our planet in mind: Risks, vulnerabilities, and sub-populations by the Centre for Global Mental Health

May

3 May 2022 — Online — Reaching Policymakers in MHPSS Evidence Translation and Service Integration – a webinar by the Implementation Science Collaborative

3 May – 2 June 2022 — Foundations of Mental Health Care – Mental Health Care Leadership Champions Program by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

4 May 2022 — Online — Reimagining mental health care for refugees in resettlement by the UIC Global Health Colloquium

5 May 2022 — Online — Migration, Trauma & the Mental Health Needs of Displaced Children, Adolescents, and Families Annual Conference by William James College

9-13 May 2022 — Online — European Mental Health Week

9 May 2022 — Online — Integrating Mental Health to Achieve the SDGs: Intersectoral approaches by Catalyst 2030

10 May 2022 — Online — Mind our rights! A webinar on children’s rights in youth mental health by ‘Waardenetwerk Gezond Opgroeien’, UNICEF NL, NJi and MIND US

10 May 2022 — Online — Social and strengths-based approaches to mental health support – from global practice to local delivery by the Association for Mental Health Providers (UK)

13 May 2022 — Online — Refugee Mental Health and Place Conference by the ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health at King’s College London

10-15 May 2022 — Online — Global Mental Health Summer Institute by the Global Mental Health Lab at Teachers College, Columbia University

12-13 May 2022 — Online — Immigrant Minds Matter: Racism, Intersectionality, Spirituality and Equity in Underresourced Populations conference by Boston Medical Center

17 May 2022 — Online — Mental health in emergency setting: Mental Health for All webinars by United for Global Mental Health

18 May 2022 — Online — UCL Catalyst Seminar Series in Children and Young People’s Mental Health

19 May 2022 — Online — Kick-off event: No health without mental health from European Public Health Week by EUPHA and Gamian Europe

24 May 2022 — Online — The Impact of War on Mental Health: Lessons from Ukraine by the Global Mental Health Humanitarian Coalition

24 May 2022 — Online — What do Children Need? A Conversation on Ukraine Mental Health & Psychosocial Support Response by Fordham University and partners

25 May 2022 — Online — Problem Management Plus (PM+) webinar (in Arabic) by the Psychosocial Centre of the IFRC

26 May 2022 — Online — QualityRights: A paradigm shift in mental health by CBM and partners

31 May 2022 — Online — Mental Health for All webinars by United for Global Mental Health

31 May 2022 — Online — Working with experiential knowledge in mental health care by the CARe Network in collaboration with EUCOMS

31 May 2022 — Online — Investigating hunger and mental health among pregnant women during the Covid-19 lockdowns: Follow-up findings by the Grow Great Campaign

June

1-17 June 2022 — Online — Summer Institute in Mental Health Research by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

2 June 2022 — Online — Global Mental Health Day at University of Toronto

8 June 2022 — Online — UCL Catalyst Seminar Series in Children and Young People’s Mental Health

8 June 2022 — Online — Developing and implementing adolescent mental health interventions in low-resource contexts, Dr Daniel Michelson by the Wolfson Centre for Young People’s Mental Health at Cardiff University

8 June 2022 — Online — Reform on Mental Health Care in Poland by EUCOMS

8 June 2022 — Online — Towards a mental health-promoting welfare system: what we know and what we don’t by King’s College London

8 June 2022 — Online — Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health by the College for Behavioral Health Leadership

9-10 June 2022 — Online — Pluralizing Global Mental Health: Care, crisis, and critique by Edinburgh University

13-25 June 2022 — Pisa, Italy — Psychosocial Interventions in Migration, Emergency and Displacement Summer School by the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies

15 June 2022 — Online — How can funders and international partners help community-based mental health organizations in the Global South thrive? – webinar by Ember Mental Health

15 June 2022 — Online — Remote MHPSS Programming in Humanitarian Settings: Guidelines and Practical Examples from the Field by the International Medical Corps

16 June 2022 — Online — Role of Peer Work in the Mental Health Field by by the CARe Network in collaboration with EUCOMS

16 June 2022 — Online — Keeping our planet in mind: climate change and the mental health crisis webinar by the Centre for Global Mental Health

17-18 June 2022 — Online and Sofia, Bulgaria — Social Aspects of Mental Health and Mental Disorders conference by Sofia University

17 June 2022 — Online — Launch of the World Mental Health Report by the World Health Organization

18-23 June 2022 — London, UK — ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health 2022 Festival: Partnering for Change

21-30 June 2022 — Online — Mental Health Advocacy and Action in Europe by NCD Child in partnership with The George Institute for Global Health

22 June 2022 — Online — Global Mental Health Action Network annual members meeting

28 June-9 July 2022 — Cairo, Egypt — 9th Annual Leadership in Mental Health Course by the American University in Cairo

28 June 2022 — Online — Together for Mental Health: Reaching Traditionally Under-Resourced Communities by the Global Alliance for Behavioral Health and Social Justice

30 June 2022 — Online — Global mental health webinar by University of Leicester

July

12 July 2022 — London, UK — Levelling up and mental health by the Money and Mental Health Institute

26 July 2022 — Online — #MHforAll webinar – mental health and violence by United for Global Mental Health

26 July 2022 — Online — 2022 Chesmal Siriwardhana Memorial Lecture – Mental Health and Psychosocial Supports in Humanitarian Settings: Lessons Learned by the Centre for Global Mental Health

August

3-6 August 2022 — Online and Bangkok, Thailand — 22nd WPA World Congress of Psychiatry

30 August 2022 — Online — Mental Health for All webinar by United for Global Mental Health

September

6 September 2022 — Online — WHO QualityRights E-Training: Interactive Session by United for Global Mental Health

8-10 September 2022 — Cambridge, UK — 20th Biennial Congress of EPA Section of Epidemiology and Social Psychiatry

8-10 September 2022 — Vilnius, Lithuania — Rethinking Mental Healthcare Conference

10-11 September 2022 — Online — Southeast Asian Mental Health Conference

10-11 September 2022 — Online — 2022 Suicide Prevention Summit by Mental Health Academy and the British Psychological Society

13-14 September 2022 — Cape Town, South Africa — 5th African Diaspora Global Mental Health Conference by the Africa Global Mental Health Institute (AGMHI)

14 September 2022 — Online — Prevention Science in Global Mental Health by King’s Global Health Institute

21 September 2022 — London, UK — Institute of Mental Health International Conference by University College London

21 September 2022 — Online — Covid-19 & mental health: Taking forward the lessons learned by the EU Health Policy Platform

21 September 2022 — Online — Experiences of non-academic service users collaborating in research projects by the INTREPID Research Programme

27 September 2022 — Online — Mental Health For All webinar by United for Global Mental Health

28 September 2022 — Online — Establishing an Independent Career in Global Mental Health Research by the Center for Global Mental Health Research within the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), US

29 September 2022 — Exeter, UK, and online — Mental Health and Psychiatric Deinstitutionalisation in South America by the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health

30 September – 2 October 2022 — Rotterdam, Netherlands —MHPSS European Network FORUM 2022: Mental Health of Young Adults during a time of Crises by the IFRC

October

3-20 October 2022 — Online and in person — 2022 Leadership Exchange by the International Initiative for Mental Health Leadership

4 October 2022 — Online — Findings from the UK’s largest study on the social impact of COVID-19 by Nuffield Foundation

4 October – 3 November 2022 — Online — Scaling Up Mental Health Services – Mental Health Care Leadership Champions Program by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

4 October 2022 — Online — First Look at ‘The Child & Family MHPSS Resource Collection by the MHPSS Collective

7 October 2022 — Online — Services and training in mental healthcare for older people in the Post-COVID era: Lessons learnt in South Asia and the way forward by the International Psychogeriatric Association

10 October 2022 — Online — Launch of The Lancet Commission on Ending Stigma and Discrimination in Mental Health by the World Health Organization and The Lancet

10 October 2022 — Online — Mental health in the context of human mobility: Perspectives from researchers and practitioners by the Columbia University Global Mental Health Program

10 October 2022 — Brussels, Belgium and online — Migrants, refugees and mental health by Mental Health Europe and the European Parliament

12 October 2022 — London, UK — Film screening: Nkabom: A little medicine, a little prayer by King’s College London

12 October 2022 — Online — The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Children and Young People’s Mental Health by University College London

13-14 October 2022 — Rome, Italy — High-level Ministerial Mental Health Meeting by the government of Italy

13-15 October 2022 — Zagreb, Croatia and online — 6th Eastern European Conference of Mental Health / 3rd International Public Mental Health Conference “In and Out of Your Mind” by the Mental Health Association of South-Eastern Europe and partners

21 October 2022 — Online — The triple threat of COVID-19 to global mental health by ERA-NET NEURON

24-28 October 2022 — Online — MQ Mental Health Science Festival by the MQ Mental Health Research Foundation

25 October 2022 — Online — Mental Health For All webinar by United for Global Mental Health

26 October 2022 — Online — Mental Health of Refugee Children: New Findings on Syrian Refugees in Lebanon by Queen Mary University of London

27 October 2022 — Online — The future of mental health services: Innovative approaches to mitigating depression in Africa – pre-launch webinar by WPA-Lancet Commission on Depression

27 October 2022 — Online — How do we achieve mutuality in Global Mental Health? by the Centre for Global Mental Health

November

3 November 2022 — Online — Uniting Good Practices from Sport, Mental Health and Psychosocial Support to Support Young People Affected by Displacement by MHPSS.net

5-6 November 2022 — Hybrid conference by Generation Mental Health

9 November 2022 — Online — Helping young people thrive by Wolfson Centre for Young People’s Mental Health, Cardiff University

14 November 2022 — Online — Adapting scalable psychological interventions for refugee men in Uganda by Columbia University Global Mental Health Program

14 November 2022 — Brussels, Belgium and online — Resilient Mental Health in the European Union by the Czech Presidency of the Council of the EU

15 November 2022 — Launch of the updated BasicNeeds Model/Network by BasicNeeds

17 November 2022 — Online — Innovation and Inclusion in Digital Mental Health by the Birkbeck Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Mental Health and the Centre for Global Mental Health

29 November 2022 — Online — Mental Health For All webinar by United for Global Mental Health

December

1 December 2022 — Online — Integrating Mental Health into HIV Prevention, Care and Treatment Programs: Real World Questions and Opportunities by the Mental Health Innovation Network

7 December 2022 — Copenhagen, Denmark, and online — Big Data and AI in mental health by WHO Europe

13 December 2022 — Online — Mental Health For All webinar by United for Global Mental Health

3,10,17 December 2022 — Chennai, India, and online — Global Mental Health Summit by the Movement for Global Mental Health