The SOAS MA in Medical Anthropology and Mental Health facilitates understanding of health from diverse perspectives and investigates the complexity of human suffering, as well as varied forms of healing and treatment. The programme offers training in anthropological approaches to the major health and mental health challenges of our time. Drawing on ethnographic research, clinical knowledge, lived experience and cross-cultural comparison, it explores health as embedded in historical and social forces such as climate change, coloniality, displacement, and intersecting inequalities including race and gender. The programme equips graduates with conceptual tools for anthropological analysis and methodological skills in ethnographic research. Students are also introduced to insights from disciplines adjacent to anthropology, including psychology, transcultural psychiatry, psychoanalysis, biomedicine, and Science and Technology Studies (STS). Students' anthropological skills will be honed through closely supervised original research projects in areas of individual interest, written up as a dissertation. Students learn about the implications of ongoing cultural and technological shifts and the ethical stakes of diverse healing philosophies and practices in order to engage with current affairs and global conditions pertaining to mental health, inequality, conflict, and justice. They also have the opportunity to use short work placements as part of their study programme to gain practical experience or to reflect anthropologically on their existing work roles.