Leadership in Mental Health

Why Leadership in Mental Health?

Because global change begins with empowered minds

Are you ready to lead transformative change in mental health—locally or globally? This course is your opportunity to deepen your understanding, sharpen your skills, and build the confidence to design and lead impactful mental health programs in real-world settings.

Here’s why you should apply:

🔹 Global Mental Health, Up Close : Learn to advocate for mental health as a development priority. Understand treatment and credibility gaps, and explore practical frameworks to influence policy and programming worldwide.

🔹 From Ideas to Action : Craft your own scalable, sustainable, and evidence-based mental health intervention. Gain tools to design, implement, and evaluate programs across community, facility, and tech-enabled platforms.

🔹 Learn from the Best : Be mentored by an inspiring and interdisciplinary faculty—including lived experience experts, disability and human rights advocates, and global health pioneers.

🔹 A Classroom Like No Other : Join a vibrant, diverse cohort of professionals from around the world. Share, collaborate, and grow through cross-cultural dialogue and collective problem-solving.

What will the course cover?

Course content: Phase I (Online)

The course encompasses a range of themes relevant to global mental health and leadership, below are examples of what to expect: 

Theme 1: Task-sharing and integrating mental health with communicable and non-communicable disease

Theme 2: Developing community-based participatory interventions

Theme 3: Health systems’ strengthening and transitioning from evidence to policy and practice in low resource settings

Theme 4: Understanding social determinants of mental health

Theme 5: Digital solutions in mental health care

Theme 6: The critiques and future of global mental health

Course content: Phase II (On-site Bootcamp)

• Essentials of developing complex interventions

• Theories, models and frameworks to develop interventions

• Process of implementation of complex interventions

• Evaluating the impact of interventions

• Process of scaling up

• Evaluation of mental health care plans

This will be a hands-on interactive experience wherein participants get an opportunity to develop an intervention in a topic area they are interested in with the help of course tutors and peers.

Who can apply?

• Students interested in global mental health  

• Health professionals and practitioners 

• Program managers and coordinators 

• Early career researchers in any health-related field 

• Lived experience experts 

• Advocates and change-makers 

• Working in the social and developmental sector

How to apply

Apply now to become a leader in mental health—because the world needs more of them.

Fill your application, following this link

What will you receive?

Earn prestigious completion certificates for both Phase I and Phase II, recognizing your journey and achievements in global mental health leadership.

Glimpse of 2024-25 Cohort

The 16th edition of Sangath LMH Course brought together 70 passionate participants from 10 countries and a powerhouse faculty of over 50 global Mental Health Experts.

Set against the serene backdrop of Goa, the week-long residential bootcamp was a dynamic blend of deep learning, critical reflection, and cross-cultural exchange. From evidence-based practices to community-driven innovations, each session sparked meaningful conversations and forged lasting connections among a truly global classroom.