Centre for Mental Health and Community Wellbeing
Welcome to the Centre for Mental Health and Community Wellbeing
The Centre for Mental Health and Community Wellbeing aims to promote optimum mental health and wellbeing in communities and populations, with a particular emphasis on people at risk of, experiencing, or impacted by suicide, mental ill-health, and adversity. It achieves this through high-quality, interdisciplinary, co-developed research, academic teaching, and professional and community education.
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Our research uses advanced methods in epidemiology, biostatistics, health humanities and social sciences, and our findings seek to significantly influence global public health policy. We share this research and contribute to the community using a range of knowledge transfer activities.
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Our Research Units
An overview of the research interests within the centre and the project work being carried out by our research units.
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Graduate Research Training
We are passionate about training and mentoring the next generation of researchers. We offer PhD and MPhil degrees in areas related to mental health and community wellbeing.
The Centre for Mental Health and Community Wellbeing has responsibility for or plays a significant role in the following subjects and courses:
- Population Mental Health (POPH90275)
- Climate Change and Health (POPH90303)
- Graduate Certificate in Climate Change and Health (GC-CCHLTH)
- Frontiers in Biomedicine (Mental Health Component; BIOM30001)
We run a number of short courses. These include: Data Visualisation for Knowledge Translation , Foundations in Disaster Recovery, and Disastrous Writing.
The Centre also partners with the Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, the Department of Psychiatry, and Orygen Youth Health to deliver the Mental Health PhD Program.
The Centre for Mental Health and Community Wellbeing has a range of Australian and International engagements which include the research impacts of our five research units. Find out more below about these impacts as well as how the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health engages with its alumni, partners, and the community.
Research Impact: Mental Health Policy and Practice Unit
Much of our work is commissioned by policy-makers, planners and managers who are trying to determine the best way to deliver services. Our work on suicide and the media has had, and is still having, a major impact.
Research Impact: Disaster, Climate and Adversity Unit
The Disaster, Climate and Adversity Unit works with policy makers, service providers, practitioners, communities and people with lived experience to build new evidence and convert that into practical resources and tools that increase capacity to implement health promoting systems, services and strategies.
Research Impact: Population Mental Health Unit
Our work has been instrumental in shaping the ongoing development of Mental Health First Aid training, including the creation of expert consensus guidelines to improve employee mental health in the workplace, and the creation of the consumer guides: ‘What Works for Depression’ and ‘What Works for Anxiety’.
Research Impact: Global and Cultural Mental Health Unit
The Unit has continued to have a significant impact on immigrant and refugee mental health policy, education and practice.
Research Impact: Mental Health Epidemiology Unit
The Mental Health Epidemiology Unit leads the design and analysis of studies of mental health outcomes, including studies of suicide and self-harm.
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Alumni
Our pride in our graduates and in their lives spent improving the health and well-being of others is matched by our desire to maintain strong connections with all who have passed through our doors.
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Support
We are grateful for the many ways in which our alumni and donors support our work.
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Partners
We recognise partnerships and collaborations are an integral facet of our development and a major strength of the school.
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Community
The School aims to be of value to the community through its teaching, research and program implementation.
Welcome to the Centre for Mental Health and Community Wellbeing
The Centre for Mental Health and Community Wellbeing aims to promote optimum mental health and wellbeing in communities and populations, with a particular emphasis on people at risk of, experiencing, or impacted by suicide, mental ill-health, and adversity. It achieves this through high-quality, interdisciplinary, co-developed research, academic teaching, and professional and community education.
Background
The Centre was established in 2013 and brought together three major research groups.
