Mental Health Leadership: Transformation Through Innovation
“There is no prouder moment than receiving the certification Mental Health Leadership: Transformation Through Innovation from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Executive and Continuing Education. This is a milestone in my new path in aiding innovative solutions and transforming the mental health system”
—Ghazwa Al Sawaf, Mental Health & Behavioural Coach
About the Program
Transform your approach to mental healthcare by addressing the critical need to reduce the mental healthcare gap. Explore innovative strategies and key topics such as social determinants of mental health, digital technologies, and rights-based approaches while learning how to scale effective innovations in mental healthcare globally and in the U.S.
Program Fees
- Standard Price $2,900.00
Program Overview
This program is based on decades of real-world experiences of the lead Harvard faculty and encompasses a range of themes related to the core mission of scaling-up mental healthcare and realizing mental health progress. This interactive executive education course will introduce the reasons for the current state, key innovations which can transform mental healthcare and discuss how these might be scaled up both globally and in the United States.
After attending this program, participants will be able to:
- Analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the mental healthcare systems that they are familiar with
- Contribute knowledgeably and effectively in developing transformative policies and programs for mental healthcare
- Implement a plan for transforming mental healthcare systems
Upcoming Program Details
- To understand the state of mental health problems globally and in the US
- To develop insights into the reasons for limited progress in mental health
- To understand the key principles of transforming mental health care in a variety of settings
- To understand the key policy actions needed to transform mental health globally
All Times are Eastern Time (ET).
| Monday, November 17, 2025 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 8:30–9:00 am | Welcome and Classroom Technology Orientation | |
| 9:00–11:00 am | The Need for Transforming Mental Health | |
| 11:00–11:15 am | Break | |
| 11:15 am–1:15 pm | Addressing the Social Determinants of Mental Health Problems | Tuesday, November 18, 2025 |
| 9:00–11:00 am | Person Centered Care and Care by Non-Specialists | |
| 11:00–11:15 am | Break | |
| 11:15 am–1:15 pm | A Rights Based Care Approach, Including the Role of People with Lived Experience | Wednesday, November 19, 2025 |
| 9:00–11:00 am | Acting Early: Child and Youth Mental Health | |
| 11:00–11:15 am | Break | |
| 11:15 am–1:15 pm | Care in Humanitarian Contexts | Thursday, November 20, 2025 |
| 9:00 am–1:00 pm | Digital Technology for Mental Health Care | |
| 11:00–11:15 am | Break | |
| 11:15 am–1:15 pm | Policy Actions to Transform Mental Health |
This agenda is subject to change.
Current faculty, subject to change
Giuseppe Raviola
Director of the Chester M. Pierce MD Division of Global Psychiatry
Massachusetts General Hospital
Director of Mental Health
Partners in Health
Associate Professor of Psychiatry, and of Global Health and Social Medicine
Harvard Medical School
This program is designed for practitioners, policy advisors, health administrators, service planners, business leaders, and civil society organization executives with a responsibility for mental health. Participants may hold titles such as:
- Director of mental health
- Administrator of mental health
- Mental health consultant
- Commissioner of mental health
- Chief mental health officer
- Public health planners
- Human resource director
- Director of Patient Relations
- Psychologist or Counselor
Credits & Logistics
All participants will receive a Certificate of Participation upon completion of the program.
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health will grant 16 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for this program, equivalent to 16 contact hours of education. Participants can apply these contact hours toward other professional education accrediting organizations.
All credits subject to final agenda.