Global Public Health: Sustainability Development Challenges for Mental Health

This paper is based on a Keynote address the author gave at the 9 th International Global Public Health Conference, in Manila, Philippines July 2024. The paper explores how mental health care has been, and continues to be viewed through dominant models. And suggests that by taking an intersectional view of mental health, it demonstrates that mental health has not been given the same degree of importance and has not had fair and equitable attention in policy, strategies and resources. The author offers solutions which emphasises a seismic shift is needed by the UN, WHO and Governments to move from a dominant western medical model.