Capacity building and training in global mental health and public mental health
The optimal approach to building capacity in mental health care around the world will require partnerships
between professional resources and promising health-related institutions. These partnerships need to be
sustainable, develop quality in clinical care and research, and build a productive environment for
professionals to advance their knowledge and skills. Digital technology has an increasingly important role
in delivery of appropriate training to mental health and other professionals including about policy
development and public mental health.
Proposed activities include:
- Organization of educational programmes promoting “no health without mental health”
- Planning specific activities focussing on CME programmes on different topics of clinical & academic interests
- Planning teaching sessions for medical students, GPs and other health care workers including digitally based
- Promoting and developing e Mental Health services and including this topic in training programmes for mental health professionals
Examples of work
Special Communication
The interface of psychiatry and COVID-19: Challenges for management of psychiatric patients
Asian Journal of Psychiatry
Psychological interventions during COVID-19: Challenges for low and middle income countries
Asian Journal of Psychiatry
Revisiting ‘The Plague’ by Camus: Shaping the ‘social absurdity’ of the COVID-19 Pandemic
BJPsych International
Critical Issues for COVID positive psychiatric patients in low- and middle-income countries
Khyber Medical Journal
Coping With COVID-19: Urgent Need For Building Resilience Through Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
DH e-Learning for Healthcare
Public mental health e-Learning Programme