Public Mental Health MSc

On this MSc, you will learn to consider the importance of cultural competence when making clinical decisions about the care and management of those suffering from poor mental health. Whether you are a clinician, policymaker, manager or activist, you will be able to examine psychiatry and mental illness through a public health and socio-cultural lens.

• Learn about the current trends in global mental illness and their underlying drivers
• Examine current responses to the burden of mental illness by global, national and local actors
• Think about mental health on a global scale, with an awareness of local cultural norms
• Develop your own research in mental health policy, mental health care systems, the socio-cultural determinants of mental illness or cultural psychiatry