The Movement for Global Mental Health ("The Movement") is a global network of individuals and organisationss committed to the goal of scaling up evidence-based services for people living with mental disorders and to protecting their human rights. This is the primary focus of the Movement.
The Movement has developed directly from the Lancet Series on Global Mental Health (2007). The objective is to facilitate the implementation of the Lancet Call for Action.
The Movement is a coalition whose individual and organisational members invest their own resources to carry out activities that will advance the goals of the Movement. They can also raise additional resources for this purpose.
The Movement does not have a chairperson, bank account or budget.
The Movement is managed by a secretariat and an advisory group.
The secretariat is a rotating secretariat with a 3-year term, which is selected by the advisory group through a voting system. The first secretariat was established in early 2011, and is based at the Centre for International Mental Health at the University of Melbourne, Australia. The role of the secretariat is to:
The advisory group initially comprised authors of the original Lancet series on global mental health and took on many of the activities of the secretariat prior to the establishment of the secretariat. The group members have changed over time to make it more diverse, focusing especially on increasing participation of users, women and persons based on low and middle income countries. Members of the advisory group are all volunteers. Their role is to provide overall guidance on the Movement's activities and to take responsibility for its strategic direction.
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