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
SCOPE
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:
- Implementation science
- mHealth interventions
- Community level mental health service delivery
- Suicide prevention
- Substance abuse prevention and treatment
- Human rights violations, discrimination, and stigma
- Adolescent mental health
- Mental health in aging populations
- Mental health services in humanitarian emergencies
- Chronic illness and mental health
- Climate change and mental health
- Impact of pandemics on mental health
- Country level policies for mental health servicesscience
- Financing mental health programs and services
- Ethical issues regarding mental health (including virtual services)
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
Rochelle Burgess
University College of London
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
PLOS Global Public Health
Perceived stress and hair cortisol concentration in a study of Mexican and Icelandic women
August 3, 2022 / Rebekka Lynch, Mario H. Flores-Torres, Gabriela Hinojosa, Thor Aspelund, Arna Hauksdóttir, Clemens Kirschbaum, Andres Catzin-Kuhlmann, Martín Lajous, Unnur Valdimarsdottir
PLOS Global Public Health
Suicide and self-harm in low- and middle- income countries during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review
June 1, 2022/ Duleeka Knipe, Ann John, Prianka Padmanathan, Emily Eyles, Dana Dekel, Julian P. T. Higgins, Jason Bantjes, Rakhi Dandona, Catherine Macleod-Hall, Luke A. McGuinness, Lena Schmidt, Roger T. Webb, David Gunnell
PLOS Global Public Health
Overlooked and unaddressed: A narrative review of mental health consequences of child marriages
January 12, 2022 / Rochelle A. Burgess ,Mairi Jeffery, Sabina Adhiambo Odero, Kelly Rose-Clarke, Delanjathan Devakumar
PLOS Global Public Health
Job satisfaction among healthcare workers in Ghana and Kenya during the COVID-19 pandemic: Role of perceived preparedness, stress, and burnout
October 13, 2021/ Patience A. Afulani, Jerry John Nutor, Pascal Agbadi, Akua O. Gyamerah, Joseph Musana, Raymond A. Aborigo, Osamuedeme Odiase, Monica Getahun, Linnet Ongeri, Hawa Malechi, Moses Obimbo Madadi, Benedicta Arhinful, Ann Marie Kelly, John Koku Awoonor-Williams
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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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