Updated:

May 8, 2026

CPD Course on Public mental health – Emotional wellness through digital means for the masses (WPA Webinar Series)

Introduction

Mental health problems are the single cause of disability worldwide. Nearly a billion people (Including 14% of the world’s adolescents) around the world lived with a diagnosable mental disorder in 2019. Post Pandemic in just a year after the pandemic, depressive and anxiety disorders increased by 28% and 26%, respectively. Globally $6.1 Trillion will be lost in economic growth due to mental health conditions in 20 years (2011-2030) & from treatment perspectives, in some countries, the treatment gap for severe mental health conditions is a staggering 90%. For us to think about emotional wellness solutions for the masses, we must understand that the insurmountable gap between supply of human resources and exceedingly high demand is so huge that mental health delivered through digital means can provide definite solutions which can be practically implemented and scaled up for the masses. Key components of public mental health are prevention of mental disorders, promotion of mental health, reducing stigma, policy, advocacy and access to mental health services whereas public mental health interventions are screening & early intervention, treatment of established cases, suicide prevention, crisis intervention, awareness & educational programs so from public mental health perspective, theoretically any robust technology platform with an aggregator model & huge digital bandwidth across respective countries can actually provide solutions from prevention to cure for anyone to access mental health services but it will require involvement of multiple stakeholders to come together from government, non government & private sector in each country of the world with hybrid mental health solutions as top policy agenda everywhere for it to be accessible to everyone in a beneficial form with data privacy and implementation of multilingual, universally acceptable, high quality scientifically validated formats made available for scaling up of emotional wellness for the masses.

Speaker

Dr Sandeep Vohra

Senior Consultant Psychiatrist & Psychotherapist
Founder Chairman & Director -No Worry No Tension Healthcare
& Vohra Neuropsychiatry Centre Pvt Ltd.

Dr Sandeep Vohra is an entrepreneur, clinician, academician, researcher, media mental health expert & a pioneer of tele mental health in India with 30 years’-experience.

Since last 26 years he runs a clinic named Vohra Neuropsychiatry Clinic in New Delhi and has catered to patients from all 28 states in India and around 37 countries in the world in hybrid mode of telepsychiatry & since last 12 years his health tech company, No worry No tension Healthcare (NWNT) has been providing digital mental health services to the masses.

He is presently chairperson of Digital Mental Health – Task Force of Indian Psychiatric Society (2023-24) & Advisor –Digital Mental Wellness Program, Apollo group & BLK Max hospital in New Delhi, India.

He has more than 1500 (Fifteen hundred) TV appearances on various Indian news channels, has been awarded “Healthcare Leadership Award“ at World mental health congress in Feb’2023, has been profiled on the cover page story by The CEO Magazine, featuring “25 dominant leaders in healthcare industry “in May 2019, was Awarded with “Technological Innovation in the field of Emotional & Mental health” by ET Now in February 2019 and was Awarded with “Outstanding contribution in the field of Psychiatry” by Indian Association of Private Psychiatry, Delhi Chapter in June 2018.”