Latest highlights
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Final Conference of the EU Joint Action on Mental Health and Wellbeing
The Final Conference, held on the 21-22 January 2016 at the Flemish Parliament building in Brussels, included a discussion on the main results of the Joint Action as well as the different aspects of the Framework for Action implementation.
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Somaliland faces "explosion" of mental health conditions
Communities struggle with the cultural and financial challenges of mental illness, and in under-resourced private clinics, patients are routinely chained.
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Global Mental Health Communications Toolkit
The Global Mental Health Communications Toolkit aims to help global mental health researchers communicate their findings to their stakeholders. The toolkit is a pulling together of the experience working in development communications across the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
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Mental health services scaled up in Syria
Mental health services are becoming more widely available than ever before to the Syrian people in spite of conflict in the country. In the January issue of the WHO Bulletin, Dale Gavlak reports on how this was accomplished, and the impact on the people of Syria.
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“Growing up in conflict: the impact on children’s health and psychosocial wellbeing”
The Final report on the symposium “Growing up in conflict: the impact on children’s health and psychosocial wellbeing”, hosted by UNICEF in partnership with the Government of the Netherlands in The Hague on 26th and 27th May 2015, is now available.