Leadership in Mental Health (LMH)
Learn Globally. Act Locally. Lead Meaningfully
The LMH Course is a transformative 3-part immersive journey designed to equip you with the knowledge, skills, and tools to design and implement impactful mental health programs, especially for low-resource settings.
Whether you're a practitioner, researcher, policymaker, or advocate, this course blends theory with practice, connecting you with global experts and a diverse cohort of changemakers. From foundational concepts to real-world application, LMH helps you turn bold ideas into scalable, sustainable solutions.
Language
English
Duration
Phase I: Online
25th September 2026: Every Friday and Saturday
Phase II: On-site Residential bootcamp,
18th January – 23rd January 2027: Residential boot camp in Goa, India
Phase III: Online mentoring for a year to a select participants who complete Phase II
February 2026-January 2027
Last date to apply
Applications are open!
Apply before 30th June 2026 and avail Early Bird fee discount!
Location
Online
On-site Bootcamp in Goa, India
About the LMH Course
LMH Residential bootcamp 2025-26
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.
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.
