The Mental Health and Substance Use (NMH/MH) unit of the Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health (NMH) department provides technical cooperation to help strengthen national capacities and develop health policies.
The Mental Health program within NMH promotes, coordinates, and implements technical cooperation to strengthen national capacities to develop policies, plans, programs, and services, thus contributing to mental well-being, preventing mental disorders, emphasizing recovery, and promoting persons with mental disorders to exercise their human rights to attain the highest possible level of health and to contribute to the well-being of families and communities. The Alcohol program provides leadership and technical cooperation to Member States on public health policies related to alcohol consumption. It generates and disseminates information on alcohol, evidence-based policies, and interventions, and monitors trends in consumption and related problems, with the goal of minimizing the negative health outcomes associated with their use. It works to strengthen the public health approach in addressing problems related to substance use in the countries of the Americas.