Course description
The aim of this course is to provide an overview of the field of Global Mental Health, and advance students’ understanding of its key concepts and challenges. Students will consider mental health across cultures and contexts, and learn innovative approaches to preventing and treating mental disorders in low-resource settings. We will integrate knowledge and approaches from public health, global health, transcultural psychiatry and psychology, anthropology, and psychiatric epidemiology.
Prerequisites and Selection
Prerequisite courses, or equivalent
Background or previous coursework in public health, global health, health care, or other relevant medical or social science subject area.
Selection
Selection will be based on:
1) the relevance of the course syllabus for the applicant’s individual study plan/research (according to written motivation).
2) start date of doctoral studies (priority given to earlier start date).
Course director
Jill Åhs and Andreas Lundin
Course syllabus
K9F5320
Department
Department of Global Public Health
Doctoral programme
Public Health Science (PHSP)
Type of course
**Other course
Keywords
international health, global hälsa, mental health, psykisk hälsa, psychiatry, psykiatri, psychology, psykologi, psychiatric epidemiology, psykiatrisk epidemiologi