GMH Websites

The website links on this page are organised in terms of mental health, academic institutions, humanitarian assistance, and advocacy. These are of course only a few of the many organisations and websites which provide quality materials. The list below was updated 2015-2016.  

Update March 2021: The list of related websites that could be added is now extensive.

1. Mental Health

Athealth http://www.athealth.com/

in2mentalhealth in2mentalhealth.com and in2mhconnect.com

International Union of Psychological Science http://www.iupsys.net/

Movement for Global Mental Health http://www.globalmentalhealth.org/articles.html

NGO Committee on Mental Health, New York (affiliated with CoNGO, in consultative relationship with UN) http://www.mentalhealthngo.org/index.html

NGO Forum for Health, Geneva (Mental Health-Psychosocial Working Group) http://www.ngo-forum-health.ch

National Institute for Mental Health (USA) http://www.nimh.nih.gov/index.shtml

Psychology Resources Around the World http://psychology-resources.org/

WHO Mental Health Department http://www.who.int/mental_health/en/

World Federation for Mental Health http://www.wfmh.org/index.html

2. Academic Institutions (with GMH emphases--note there are many more)

**Centre for Global Mental Health (CGMH), London, UK http://www.centreforglobalmentalhealth.org/

**Centre for International Mental Health, Melbourne, Australia http://www.cimh.unimelb.edu.au/

**Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA http://ocw.jhsph.edu/

See also: The Training section on this site

 3. Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Humanitarian Assistance

**Antares Foundation http://www.antaresfoundation.org/

**Families in Global Transition www.figt.org

**Headington Institute http://headington-institute.org/

**Inter-Agency Standing Committee http://www.humanitarianinfo.org/iasc/

**International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (Psychosocial Centre) http://psp.drk.dk/sw2955.asp

** Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Network http://mhpss.net/

**Reference Centre for Psychological Support http://psp.drk.dk/sw2955.asp

**People In Aid www.peopleinaid.org

 4. Consumer and Advocacy Groups (TBA)

 5. More Links

 Globethics

Online Library for Health Ethics

“Initially including more than 500 documents, the Globethics.net Health Ethics collection is a unique online resource covering topics related to health ethics such as pharmaceuticals, health economics, health politics, access to medical care, environmental issues and bioethics. The collection is intended for health professionals and researchers, as well as people in other disciplines wishing to health ethics material related to their fields of study. The collection is available to registered participants of Globethics.net.   Articles are available in Chinese, English, French, German, Spanish and Portuguese. They can be searched by author, title, keyword, language or subject.“

International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology

Online Readings in Psychology and Culture

“The Online Readings in Psychology and Culture (ORPC) is designed to serve as a resource for researchers, teachers, students, and anyone who is interested in the interrelationships between Psychology and Culture. As part of the IACCP, this publication will continue to be a free resource.”

International Society for Health and Human Rights

Health and Human Rights Info

“Health and Human Rights Info gives you information about the effects of human rights violations on mental health in contexts of disaster, conflict and war, and free access to publications on individual as well as on community level. HHRI contains guidelines and manuals on assistance and interventions and updated information on relevant organizations providing care in this field. Whether you are field worker, clinical professional, human rights defender, or in training you will find relevant information with references for specific user groups on our carefully edited thematic pages on topics covering human rights treaties, field experiences and practical psychosocial interventions.”

International Union for Psychological Science

Psychology Resources Around the World

(an extensive psychology articles/dbase from around the world)

See also: American Psychological Association

This is a fee-based dbase: “PsycINFO® is an expansive abstracting and indexing database with more than 3 million records devoted to peer-reviewed literature in the behavioral sciences and mental health, making it an ideal discovery and linking tool for scholarly research in a host of disciplines.”