2025/2026 Course Applications Open
The Lisbon Institute of Global Mental Health will initiate during the year 2025 the 6th Lisbon Learning Program on Mental Health Policy and Services. The program includes a series of Advanced Courses (2 or 3 days) for mental health leaders and professionals willing to develop public health skills in mental health policy and services, with a special emphasis on low and middle-income countries.
LIGMH Courses History
The program is based on the experience of our group in the last 15 years in the development of Learning Programs on Mental Health Policy and Services, attended by students from 51 countries. This Diploma, incorporates several important curriculum innovations with the aim of responding to new emerging priorities in global mental health.
2025/2026 Advanced Courses Focus
The focus of these Advanced Courses will be on the following areas:
- Understanding evidence, epidemiology and information in the field of mental health
- Mental Health Promotion and Prevention in the general population
- Mental Health policy development and implementation
- Organization of mental health services
- Programs for long-term severe mentally disabled persons
- Implementing integrated mental health care
- Child and Young People mental health
- Older People and mental health
- Rights of people with mental disabilities
- Deinstitutionalisation: experiences and controversies
- Mental health in complex emergencies
- Globalization, development and health diplomacy
Enrolment deadline: 15 June 2025
Find out the full program details (goals, structure, selection criteria, etc.) below.
