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CALL FOR PAPERS

Global Mental Health: opportunities, challenges, and the future of the field

PLOS GLOBAL PUBLIC HEALTH

PLOS Global Public Health are calling for submissions related to Global Mental Health: opportunities, challenges, and the future of the field. Submission deadline, May 10, 2023.

May 10 2023
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Recent years have underlined the central role mental health plays in an individual and society’s quality of life, with impacts on physical health and the ability of people to live fulfilling, productive lives. In the context of ongoing global pandemics, growing inequality, conflicts and wars, and a disparity in access to healthcare across the globe, the need for quality, accessible, affordable mental health care services is more acute than ever and is urgently called for in policy spaces, including the Sustainable Development Goals.

In this Call for Papers, we invite researchers to submit original research which engages with, or disrupts, the urgent needs across the global mental health landscape. We especially encourage submissions of studies that critically interrogate the status quo of the field and that involve inter-/trans-disciplinary approaches and those which share perspectives from underrepresented global regions and communities.

We welcome clinical and applied public health research in epidemiology, public health, clinical trials, implementation science, health economics, humanities and the social sciences as well as  systematic reviews, papers researching new or improved diagnostic tests or methods, and qualitative studies.

RESEARCH TOPICS INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO:
JOURNAL INFORMATION

PLOS Global Public Health is an open-access journal that addresses deeply entrenched global inequities in public health and makes impactful research visible and accessible to health professionals, policy-makers, and local communities without barriers. 

Email questions to globalpubhealth@plos.org

GUEST EDITORS
Guest editor - Rochelle Burgess, University College of London

Rochelle Burgess
University College of London

Guest Editor - Dixon Chibanda, University of Zimbabwe and London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Dixon Chibanda
Public University of Zimbabwe and London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

The world has always been a place of crisis for some. In recent years, global pandemics, widening social injustice, and a global climate crisis demands that research do better and go further in generating solutions. What this means for the global mental health landscape, is the urgent need for new visions able to respond to a range of silences in the field - particularly those that affect historically underserved and excluded communities globally. With this Call for Papers, we hope to create a platform to do just that.
Rochelle Burgess & Dixon Chibanda
Guest Editors
ARTICLES OF INTEREST
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Mention the Global Mental Health: opportunities, challenges, and the future of the field in your cover letter. The Collection will publish in July 2023.

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