“October 10 commemorates World Mental Health Day and is observed, in part, to raise public awareness about mental health issues. One matter that deserves critical attention is better integrating mental health care into global humanitarian responses,” Curt Goering, executive director of the Center for Victims of Torture, writes in the…

Thomson Reuters Foundation: ‘Exhausted’ Liberia struggles with long Ebola ‘to do’ list “Treating trauma and the mental health issues of Ebola survivors is one of the many challenges facing ‘exhausted’ Liberia, a senior health ministry official said…” (Zweynert, 4/17).

SciDev.Net: View on Disability: SDGs lack mental health ambition “Depression is the second largest contributor to disability worldwide, reveals an analysis for a major health study. … Critics from the FundaMentalSDG initiative, which aims to strengthen mental health inclusion in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), argue that this evidence raises…

The Guardian: Mental health care 50 times more accessible in wealthy countries “Nearly one in every 10 people has a mental health disorder, but just one percent of the global health workforce are working as psychiatrists, occupational therapists, or social workers, the World Health Organization (WHO) has revealed in a…

WhyDev: Where is mental health in the SDGs? Minto Felix, the mental health programs coordinator at Monash University and a mental health campaigner at Australians for Mental Health, writes, “The entire way in which the global community engages with mental health requires reform.” He proposes several mental health targets he…

Wall Street Journal: Ebola Still Takes Mental Toll on West Africa’s ‘Burial Boys’ “As Ebola fades, a mental health crisis is coming in its wake. At the height of the outbreak, West African countries that had no more than a roomful of doctors and too few nurses threw thousands of…

Washington Post: Global agenda must include mental health Annie Sovcik, director of the Washington office of the Center for Victims of Torture “Access to mental health and psychosocial support must be an integral part of the global health agenda. … Global leaders recently convened in Washington to advance the Global…

News outlets report on the findings of a new WHO-led study examining the return on investments in mental health, as well as a meeting convened by the WHO and the World Bank taking place this week in Washington, D.C., to address the issue. CNN: Treating anxiety, depression can help global…

Financial Times: FT Health: The burden of depression The latest issue of the weekly FT Health newsletter discusses the global burden of depression and mental illness and the U.N.’s appeal related to the potential famines in Africa, and includes a roundup of global health related news (4/7).

The Guardian: Pregnancy problems are leading global killer of ​​females aged 15 to 19 “Pregnancy complications are the leading cause of death globally among females aged 15-19, with self-harm in second place, a global study has found. More than 1.2 million female and male adolescents die annually, the World Health…