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Mental Health Organization, StrongMinds, Cited as Most Effective Charity in 2025 World Happiness Report
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 20, 2025 Kampala, Uganda – StrongMinds, a global non-profit democratizing access to mental healthcare, has been named one of the world’s…
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StrongMinds Report Reveals Climate Change is Deepening Depression in Pastoral Community in Uganda
October 15th, 2024 Kampala, Uganda – StrongMinds, a global non-profit treating depression through layperson-led interpersonal group therapy (IPT-G), released a report describing the effects of…
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Media Advisory
July 18, 2024 Contact: Roger Nokes, Roger@StrongMinds.org, 732-770-9971 StrongMinds to discuss the intersection of mental health and HIV/AIDS at AIDS 2024 Organization to note impact…
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StrongMinds Featured in Book Providing Global Overview of Interpersonal Therapy
StrongMinds CEO Sean Mayberry discusses the implementation of Interpersonal Group Therapy (IPT-G) in Uganda and Zambia in the new book, Interpersonal Psychotherapy: A Global Reach,…
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TIME100 Health Highlights StrongMinds CEO Sean Mayberry
Maplewood, New Jersey – In their inaugural issue of TIME100 Health, TIME has highlighted the work of Sean Mayberry, the founder and CEO of StrongMinds,…
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StrongMinds Reaches Half a Million People With Depression Treatment
Kampala, Uganda – Feb 28, 2024 – After ten years of work treating depression through Interpersonal Group Therapy (IPT-G), StrongMinds has provided 500,000 individuals with…
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Are Lay Counselors the Next Frontier in Global Mental Health?
Kampala, Uganda – September 19, 2023 – Although 80% of the global population lives in low- and middle-income countries, high-income countries account for 90% of…
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Ten Years of Investing in Mental Health at StrongMinds is Accelerating Global SDG Progress
Kampala, Uganda, February 21, 2023 – Mental healthcare is critical to achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). 2023 marks the halfway point for reaching…
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Ultra cyclist Jack Thompson’s feat to raise awareness of mental health
In 2022, Australian endurance athlete Jack Thompson will ride 1 million meters of elevation – two and a half times the height of the International…
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Half a million people in Africa reached through our innovative depression treatment
StrongMinds has reached a new milestone: we have now treated depression in more than 100,000 women and adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa and changed the lives…
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StrongMinds to join Chat for Impact Accelerator
The Chat for Impact Summit, powered by WhatsApp, has named StrongMinds as one of ten 10 social justice organizations to join Impact Accelerator. Winners were…
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PRESS RELEASE: COVID-19 and Mental Health in Africa
NEW REPORT SHOWS HOUSEHOLD DISTRESS IS ON THE RISE IN UGANDA AND ZAMBIA DUE TO PANDEMIC KAMPALA, UGANDA – The COVID-19 pandemic is triggering an…
READ MOREAwards and Featured Media Coverage
World Happiness Report
CEO Sean Mayberry Featured in TIME100 Health
2nd Annual Anthem Award Winnter
Honorary Tribute: The Parades Humanitarian Prize
2021 MIT Solve Challenge
2020 Humanitarian Award: Group Foundation for Advancing Mental Health
2018 GLG Social Impact Fellowship
2018 MIT Solve Challenge
2013 Cordes Foundation Fellowship
2013 Ranier Arnhold Fellowship
Recent Media Coverage
Sustainable community-based mental health support in Uganda: Reflections from a Site Visit to StrongMinds
How to buy a year of happiness, explained in one chart
Mental Health Organization, StrongMinds, Cited as Most Effective Charity in 2025 World Happiness Report
World Happiness Report
How students and grandparents could solve the global mental-health crisis
Climate Change: Floods forecast for most of Africa
StrongMinds Report Reveals Climate Change is Deepening Depression in Pastoral Community in Uganda
StrongMinds Addresses New Jersey’s Youth Mental Health Crisis Thanks to Support from Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield
Legislating compassion: From bullfighting bans to domestic violence protections
Combating Men’s Mental Health Issues in Uganda: Breaking Barriers and Building Support
U.S. Government Invests in Ugandans’ Mental Health
How Women Are Helping Their Neighbors Heal From Depression
CEO Sean Mayberry Featured in TIME100 Health
Community-based Networks Matter for Mothers’ Mental Health
The Global Mental Health Crisis Demands New Thinking
StrongMinds @10
2nd Annual Anthem Award Winnter
A surprisingly radical proposal: Make people happier — not just wealthier and healthier
Guest opinion: Countries with large healthcare professional shortages could save us from ours.
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