The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends human resource development as a key strategy to promote global mental health. The optimal approach to building capacity in global mental health care requires partnerships between professional resources in high-income countries and promising health-related institutions in low- and middle-income countries. In this chapter, we briefly describe the objectives of one of such initiatives, the Australia Awards Short Course, titled “Mental Health Care in a Public Health Context,” sponsored by the Australian government, share our experience and reflections as participants in the programme, and highlight key lessons relevant for scale-up of mental health care in low-middle-income countries in Africa.