A Call-to-Action for Canada - Lessons from the Lancet Psychiatry Commission on Youth Mental Health

In advance of the 2025 Federal Election, Tovah Cowan, Camila Velez, Ruben Valle, Nora Morrison, and Dr. Iyer have written a piece for The Conversation- Canada [LINK: https://theconversation.com/the-urgent-mental-health-needs-of-young-people-lessons-for-canada-from-a-global-commission-245039].

This article, written for a general audience, gives a brief overview of the recently published Lancet Psychiatry Commission on Youth Mental Health, which Dr. Iyer co-led. This Commission was written for a global audience, and discusses how issues like colonialism, neoliberal policies, and climate change affect youth mental health, and how services can be reimagined to meet an ever-growing segment of the youth population which is seeking mental health services.

In The Conversation piece, we showed how some of these issues are playing out in Canada; described some steps that Canada has taken to address these issues; and outlined some paths forward to support Canadian youth. In the first month after this article was published, it was read over 7000 times!