Innovations
The foundations of innovation through IGMHI intentionally advance intersectoral and intergenerational connectedness from individual health and well-being through communities, including global ecosystems and planetary health.
AIMS Initiative
(Applied Interdisciplinary MHPSS)
The goal of the AIMS Initiative is to maximize community-engaged, culturally responsive, trauma-informed health and well-being across sectors and disciplines toward durable and equitable social justice, planetary health, and social determinants of health that is both immediately adaptive into implementation and foundational to future innovations. We match local, national, or international organizational needs with student professional skills guided through academic mentorship and applying novel methodologies.
Our core outcomes include:
- Advancing workforce development in interdisciplinary applications and approaches to MHPSS in global health, development, climate resilience, public policy, and humanitarian assistance
- Emboldening co-creation and co-implementation with locally led organizations, and embodying equitable and decolonizing practices
- Promoting novel methodologies, applications, and research that bridges and bolsters standards and quality of interdisciplinary MHPSS programming and care
Applied Interdisciplinary Global Mental Health Seminar
AIGMH is a highly interactive, practically focused, and project-based seminar with a focus on implementation, adaptation, and integration of MHPSS across sectors and in a wide variety of global contexts including humanitarian assistance, global health, and climate resilience.
Interdisciplinary Global Mental Health Consortium
We convene an interdisciplinary and multi-level consortium of community and civil society members, along with governmental and academic stakeholders, to deepen our evidence base, collaboration, and applications in global mental health practice, policy, and research.
Our Work with Communities
- Promote mental health and expand access to services
- Provide guidance on how to identify local needs and tailor MHPSS activities that build on available resources
- Provide practical approaches to delivering mental health and psychosocial activities, programs, and interventions in affected communities
- Address cultural barriers that affect communities and people with mental health conditions
- Strengthen local and global MHPSS workforces by integrating learning and practice opportunities for graduate students
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Our Approach
IGMHI provides community-engaged, culturally responsive, trauma-informed services to support resilience within communities around the world facing adversity and trauma related to climate change, armed conflict, crises, migration, human rights, and violence.
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Services
IGMHI's provision of mental health care and support is grounded in evidence, applied research, cultural responsivity, community engagement, and sustainability. We offer education & training, technical assistance & capacity building, and mental health & psychosocial support.
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Our Team
IGMHI is an interdisciplinary team of experienced practitioners, researchers, educators, and activists working across sectors and disciplines to maximize health and well-being through addressing pressing needs and priorities of communities affected by adversity and trauma.
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