Global Mental Health-Map 

"We acknowledge, with much appreciation, that many of the developments and directions in GMH are being shaped and implemented by colleagues out of the spotlight, on the ground, in the trenches—often unrecognized and under-funded.  Thank you for your commitment and perseverance!  'All that is gold does not glitter.'  Tolkien" O'Donnell, Eaton, Lewis O'Donnell (2021)

2022 WHO World Mental Health Report
"Mental health is critically important to everyone, everywhere. All over the world, mental health needs are high but responses are insufficient and inadequate. The World mental health report: transforming mental health for all is designed to inspire and inform better mental health for everyone everywhere. Drawing on the latest evidence available, showcasing examples of good practice from around the world, and voicing people’s lived experience, it highlights why and where change is most needed and how it can best be achieved. It calls on all stakeholders to work together to deepen the value and commitment given to mental health, reshape the environments that influence mental health, and strengthen the systems that care for mental health."

2025--Reaffirming our recommendations: We strongly encourage psychology and mental health-related training programs--and related health disciplines--to include this Report as a core text in at least one of their courses and in general in their training programs. We featured this Report in our July 2022 Global Integration Update (note the updated data chapter, WHO 2025). The same recommendation is  for the WHO Comprehensive Mental Health Action Plan 2013-2030. We consider both of these items to be "GMH Bookends" that help to shape and support GMH resources/efforts across sectors and settings, countries and cultures. A third highly-recommended resource is Mental Health for Sustainable Development: A Topic Guide for Development Professionals (K4D Emerging Issues Report, 2020).  
Kelly and Michele O'Donnell

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"The challenges and goals, as we see it,  continue to center around...
the collaborative, equitable, scaled up, and sustainable implementation of mental health
on behalf of wellbeing for all people and peoples,  especially the most vulnerable/neglected. " 

Keep in the forefront the opportunities for “selfless moral struggle” in partnering with others (Patel et al. 2011, p. 90) and the “duty and choice to risk one’s owns rights and well-being” on behalf of fellow humans (O’Donnell, 2011, p. 187). Develop your personal character and professional competence as a responsible global citizen. Form a global caravan for your GMH journey in the service of humanity.
Adapted from GMH: A Resource Primer for Exploring the Domain, 2012)

GMH: Into the Future--Together!

"The GMH community must join others in the international, multi-sectoral community to advocate for solidarity in common efforts for sustainable development, locally and globally, to stir up and consolidate the best that we can be as individuals and institutions, including: greater empathy for others and mutual reliance on others; greater existential awareness of our finiteness and sense of meaning in life; and greater engagement with others for the common good and protection of the most vulnerable as well as the planet. Positively, the protracted COVID-19 pandemic provides plenty of opportunities for us all--personally, locally, and internationally--to reflect on the types of people we want to be and the types of societies we need to build. Many conversations have been started on the basis of the experience of the pandemic, which must now be operationalized into practical approaches to achieve the types of changes we have to make.

If we are to learn lessons and move towards a new way of realizing mental health and wellbeing for all, we must persevere in calling for policy and action that has compassion, equity, and rights at its heart. The call is a summons for humanity—humans helping humans. It is everyone’s responsibility. Stay the course!"

GMH: Collaborating for Sustainable Development and Wellbeing (2022). O'Donnell, K., Eaton, J., & Lewis O'Donnell, M. In E.P. Congress, H. Takooshian, & S. Osborn (Eds.), Behavioral Science and Health in the Global Arena.  Information Age Publishing.

Moral Health
What does moral health, especially integrity,  have to do with wellbeing and sustainable development?
Everything!
Integrity is at the core of moral health.  And moral health at all levels--like global integrity--
must be at the core of promoting and protecting wholeness for all people and the planet.
There is no "planetary health" without moral health!

See the resources and "spotlight events" from Global Integrity Day--9 June 2022.
The focus for this year was on the "integrity and corruption in the health sector."