Reimagining Mental Health Through Innovation and Leadership
We empower changemakers to design bold ideas, lead transformative initiatives, and build sustainable solutions that shape the future of mental health care
Building a Future Where Mental Health Care is Human, Accessible, and Transformative
The Mental Health Innovation, Leadership & Entrepreneurship Center is a global hub anchored in Nigeria, dedicated to transforming mental health care across Africa.
We connect innovators, researchers, entrepreneurs, and policymakers to co-create culturally grounded and sustainable solutions to Africa’s mental health challenges.
Through research, leadership development, and entrepreneurship support, we foster a new generation of African changemakers equipped to build resilient, inclusive, and responsive mental health systems.
Why we care
Because Mental Health Care Must Reflect Our Realities
Africa faces an urgent mental health challenge, one shaped not only by limited resources but also by a deep disconnect between global models of care and local lived experiences.
Too often, mental health frameworks overlook the cultural, linguistic, and community contexts that define how Africans understand and express distress. This mismatch limits access, reduces trust, and weakens the impact of care.
We believe the future of mental health in Africa must be contextually informed, culturally grounded, and locally led.
That’s why we work to empower changemakers who design tools, models, and interventions that speak to our realities approaches that honor our languages, values, and collective ways of healing.
Our Core Pillars of Excellence
Innovation
Leadership
Entrepreneurship
Our Core Pillars of Excellence
We drive bold, evidence-based innovations that challenge existing paradigms in mental health, bridging science, technology, and culture.
We nurture visionary African leaders with the skills to shape mental health policy, systems, and narratives through cultural intelligence and collaboration.
We support mission-driven entrepreneurs advancing mental well-being and inclusion — from incubation to scaling impact-driven ventures.
Programs & Initiatives
Empowering Communities for Better Mental Health. Our programs equip individuals and organizations with the skills and networks to lead transformative change in mental health.
Braveheart Project
Conflict has displaced millions across Nigeria, families torn from their homes, dreams, and peace of mind. Beneath the surface lies an unseen crisis: three out of every five displaced persons live with a mental health disorder, and many turn to substance use to escape their pain The Brave Heart project leverages an innovative task-shifting approach. It is an AI-powered, community-led and digitally-driven project that takes mental health information and services to the last mile – IDP camps and underserved communities.
Adopt a school NCDs project
Promoting NCDs prevention among adolescents in secondary schools in Nigeria.
Integrated Development & Peace (IDP) Project
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GENSCORE
Across Nigeria, millions of people experience mental health challenges that go unrecognized or misinterpreted — not because the pain is less real, but because the tools to measure it were never built for our contexts.
Through the GENSCORE project, we are developing one of the most advanced, contextually-accurate mental health reasoning model for LMICs starting from multimodal tool adaptation and scoring in Pidgin English, Hausa and Yoruba spoken by 250M, 120M and 70M people respectively.
The STREEM project
Children living/working on the streets are one of the most vulnerable sections of society that are prone to mental health issues. This is because they usually encounter problems like physical abuse, torture, sexual violence, exploitation, drug abuse and violation of basic rights. The proposed intervention aims to use sporting and gaming activities to drive drug abuse awareness and prevention based on the theory of replacement of a harmful habit with a healthy habit
Our Partners & Funders
We are proud to collaborate with leading organizations and institutions that share our vision for impact and innovation
Blogs & Internal News
Stay updated with the latest stories and insights from our dedicated team.
March 12, 2026
Youth Mental Health in Africa: Why the Future Depends on It
Africa is home to the youngest population in the world. Across the continent, millions of young people are shaping the future of innovation…
March 09, 2026
SRHIN’s BraveHeart Project Leads Conversation at WHO’s...
Slum and Rural Health Initiative (SRHIN) participated in the World Health Organization (WHO)…
February 27, 2026
With Minister Conrad Sackey in Attendance, SRHIN Certifies 60 Teachers to Strengthen...
The Slum and Rural Health Initiative (SRHIN), through the Brave Heart Project, continues to champion…
Meet Our Team
We are a group of dedicated professionals committed to delivering excellence and innovation in everything we do
Programs & Initiatives
Empowering Communities for Better Mental Health
Our programs equip individuals and organizations with the skills and networks to lead transformative change in mental health.
Adopt a School NCDs project
promoting NCDs prevention among adolescents in secondary schools in Nigeria
Integrated Development & Peace (IDP) Project
promoting access to physical and mental health for people in refugee camps in northern nigeria
Across Nigeria, millions of people experience mental health challenges that go unrecognized or misinterpreted — not because the pain is less real, but because the tools to measure it were never built for our contexts.
Through the GENSCORE project, we are developing one of the most advanced, contextually-accurate mental health reasoning model for LMICs starting from multimodal tool adaptation and scoring in Pidgin English, Hausa and Yoruba spoken by 250M, 120M and 70M people respectively.