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THE MENTAL HEALTH MILLION PROJECT
Tracking our evolving mental wellbeing
The Mental Health Million Project uses responses to the MHQ assessment, which is free and anonymous and provides an email report of scores with specific recommendations.
The Mental Health Million Project aims to
- Create an evolving global map of mental wellbeing
- Provide insight into social and environmental drivers
- Identify at risk geographies and demographics
- Enable effective policy and intervention
Data is openly available to the academic research community. Visit our Researcher Hub to find out more and request access
Read more about the data: Dynamic Dataset of Global Population Mental Wellbeing
Mental State of the World Report 2021
The Mental State of the World report for 2021 includes comparisons of:
- 34 Countries and Four Languages
- Trends across age, gender, education and employment
- Relationships of mental wellbeing to economic and cultural indicators
Cite this report as:
Newson JJ, Sukhoi O, Taylor J, Topalo O, and Thiagarajan TC, Mental State of the World 2021, Mental Health Million project, Sapien Labs, March 2021
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The Mental Health Million project is a nonprofit effort and we rely on your support to help us reach a larger audience and to make the results more widely available to the public and policy makers.
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Advisory Committee
The Mental Health Million Project is governed by an academic advisory committee that makes determinations on controls and mechanisms around privacy, periodic changes to questions that can aid in the utility of the data (for example, whether a question should be added around the impact of COVID), and determination of geographic and demographic focus. The committee is currently composed of:
Dr. Jennifer Newson
Lead Scientist, Cognitive and Mental Health, Sapien Labs USA (Project Lead)
Dr. Brandon Kohrt
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, George Washington University, USA
Dr. Helen Christenson
Director and Chief Scientist, Black Dog Institute, Sydney Australia
Dr. Pim Cuijpers
Full Professor, Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences, Clinical Psychology, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands
Dr. Eiko Fried
Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology, Leiden University, Netherlands
Dr. Vikram Patel
Professor, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard University, USA and Adjunct Professor and Joint Director, Centre for Chronic Conditions and Injuries, Public Health Foundation of India, India
Dr. Josh Seidman
Chief Research and Knowledge Officer, Fountain House
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