Global Mental Health

Third-cycle level | 3.0 credits (HEC) | Course code: K9F5320
HT 2025
Study period: 2025-11-03 - 2025-11-28
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION: The course is given in English
Application period: 2025-04-15 - 2025-05-06
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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

CONTACTJill Åhs

jill.ahs@ki.se