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Join us in our mission to revolutionise mental health.
At the Centre for Mental Health, Human Rights, and Social Justice, we are committed to advancing a transformative and decolonized vision of mental health—one that is rooted in human rights, social justice, and the lived experiences of directly impacted people.
As a multi-institutional, independent, and multi-disciplinary collective, we serve as an accountability hub, using human rights discourse to challenge the status quo in mental health law, policy, and practice. Our work is driven by research, advocacy, and collaboration to ensure that mental health policies uphold dignity, equity, and justice.
Your support helps us:
- Conduct critical research on rights-based approaches to mental health.
- Challenge harmful policies and practices that reinforce inequities.
- Amplify the voices of people with lived experience in shaping mental health law and policy.
- Build networks of scholars, activists, and communities working toward decolonized and just mental health systems.
Ways to support:
- Donate – Your contributions help sustain independent research and advocacy efforts.
- Collaborate – We partner with scholars, activists, and organizations to advance shared goals.
- Engage – Follow our work, attend events, and help amplify our message.
By supporting the Centre, you become part of a movement that demands accountability, reimagines mental health beyond biomedical models, and champions justice for all.
Support our key projects
INSTITUTIONALIZING RESEARCH ON MENTAL HEALTH AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Health and Human Rights Journal
Health and Human Rights Journal is the only academic journal maintaining an exclusive focus on global health through the lens of human rights. Started by Jonathan Mann in 1994, the Journal continues to be published by the FXB Center at Harvard University, in partnership with the Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University.
ESTIMATED COSTS: $225,000, OVER THREE YEARS
Mad Thinking
Mad Thinking is a knowledge development and exchange initiative dedicated to produce, systemise and disseminate user/survivor and critical research to advance the rights and inclusion of persons with psychosocial disabilities.
Currently, work in these fields is gaining momentum though happening in siloes. There is a need to bring together key stakeholders to enrich their respective actions. Additionally, there is a need for curation of user/survivor knowledge and for platforms, conferences, and meetings to disseminate their work. Furthermore, there is a need for building links between global South and global North as well as between research as activism/advocacy.
ESTIMATED COSTS: $150,000
Un-Mapping Global Mental Health
Global Mental Health (GMH) is an influential and growing field, described as an ‘organizational project’ labouring to make mental health mobile.
This research project will make important interventions within GMH, and the fields of global health and medical sociology more broadly, by disentangling the intricate networks and assemblages that make up Global Mental Health.
ESTIMATED COSTS: $500,000
Dialogues on mental health and harm reduction
In partnership with the International Centre on Human Rights and Drug Policy, Harm Reduction International and the Collective for Harm Reduction and Mental Health, we will convene a series of research-led, practitioner exchanges to identify shared challenges, best practices and common advocacy goals within the harm reduction and critical mentalhealth fields.
ESTIMATED COSTS: $75,000
Housing First in Brazil
The Centre has partnered with the Ministry of Human Rights and Citizenship in Brazil to support the development and implementation of a national evidence-based supportive housing program called Housing First.
Housing First is an intervention addressing housing and treatment needs of chronically unhoused individuals, including those with mental health and substance use issues. It operationalizes human rights, including the rights to housing, health (harm reduction), and participation (shared decision-making).
We aim to build upon our partnership and develop new impact- oriented research to demonstrate how Housing First can serve as a model for other low and middle-income countries seeking to end homelessness, using human rights to construct a framework for participatory monitoring and evaluation.
ESTIMATED COSTS: $500,000
Let's revolutionise mental health
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