- ISSN: 2054-4251 (Online)
- Frequency: 1 volume per year
Editors-in-Chief: Professor Judy Bass Johns Hopkins University | USA and Professor Dixon Chibanda Friendship Bench Zimbabwe | Zimbabwe
Cambridge Prisms: Global Mental Health (GMH) publishes papers that have a broad application of ‘the global point of view’ of mental health issues. The field of ‘global mental health’ is still emerging, reflecting a movement of advocacy and associated research driven by an agenda to remedy longstanding treatment gaps and disparities in care, access, and capacity. But these efforts and goals are also driving a potential reframing of knowledge in powerful ways, and positioning a new disciplinary approach to mental health. GMH seeks to cultivate and grow this emerging distinct discipline of ‘global mental health’, and the new knowledge and paradigms that should come from it.
GMH invites contributions from a range of disciplines, stakeholders, and research methods in order to achieve its aim. The Editors reflect this diversity, with expertise in areas outside of the traditional ‘mental health’ silos that must be included in order to make global mental health truly ‘global’ in nature.
Meet the Co-Editor-in-Chief
Meet the Co-Editor-in-Chief
Meet Professor Dixon Chibanda: A modern-day hero who has dedicated his life’s work to addressing major real-world challenges in the area of global mental health.
Meet Professor Judy Bass: A modern-day hero who has dedicated her life’s work to addressing major real-world challenges in the area of global mental health.
Cambridge Prisms blog
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Cultivating new paradigms in mental health
- 12 December 2022,
- On a global basis, mental health is an issue almost unimaginable in its scale. The World Health Organisation (WHO) recently estimated that some 300 million people suffer from depression worldwide, and that every 40 seconds someone commits suicide with causes including mental health afflictions, such as depression. Indeed, the WHO says that, among those aged 15 to 29, suicide is a ‘leading cause of death’ – and that the majority of these are in low- or middle-income countries....