Foundations of Global Mental Health

Harvard HMS

The course is intended to provide a foundation for understanding mental health across the life course from a population and health equity perspective. The course curriculum is informed by the Lancet Commission on Global Mental Health (2018) which proposed a reframing of mental health as a development priority. The Commission proposed three guiding principles of reframing: conceptualizing mental health as a dimension and not solely as the presence or absence of a diagnosed mental disorder;…