YouTube video by IASC MHPSS Reference Group HNPW 2025: Prioritizing Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Resource-Constrained Settings

Following the requests from many of you, please find the video recording here:
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Are Mental Health and Psychosocial Support services lifesaving? | MHIN

Thank you Mental Health Innovation Network for sharing the inspiring speech by Anne Filorizzo Pla, MHPSS lead at Save The Children at the Humanitarian Partnership Network last week www.mhinnovation.net/blogs/are-me...

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Effectiveness of psychological crisis interventions during infectious disease outbreaks in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review of Randomized Control Trials | Cambridge Prisms: Global... Effectiveness of psychological crisis interventions during infectious disease outbreaks in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review of Randomized Control Trials - Volume 12

Hope this might be of interest to those in humanitarian response and mental health. Small consolation after recent savaging of the humanitarian values we hold by these huge aid cuts! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

NIH ban on renewing senior scientists adds to assaults on its in-house research Policy follows firings of tenure-track scientists and suspension of training programs

We’ve tried to shelter our minds but tonight we’re preparing for the genocide of Science.

Entire NIH departments will have no leaders.

World renowned Scientists kicked to the curb without cause, & grants will loose their lead investigators.

Is this what they want?
Chaos? Destruction?

Exciting to see the launch of the Mental Health Innovation Network Asia Hub at the GMH Asia Symposium. www.duke-nus.edu.sg/newshub/medi...

Well , at least we made the shareholders some more money . #BP

Proud to be attending the graduation of the MSc Global Mental Health at King's College/ @lshtm.bsky.social . Great futures ahead!

Today's slashing of the UK's international development budget is a betrayal not only of a clear manifesto pledge, but of the millions who depend on our strong development work. With the high proportion of the budget spent in the UK, only around 0.15% of GDP will go to international work. Shameful.

Kofi Annan Global Health Leadership Programme – Africa CDC Supporting aspirational public health leaders from Africa in acquiring advanced skills and competencies to strategize, manage and lead public health programmes that will transform public health in Afr...

Only 13 days to apply for the Kofi Annan Global Health Leadership Programme. Africa CDC continue to encourage diversity of applications from across the AU Member States and specifically for *Public Mental Health Professionals* are encouraged to apply africacdc.org/kofi-annan-g...

Saudi Arabia Leads Pushback Against Global Plastic Treaty Delegates from more than 170 countries are working to salvage a treaty that would tackle the growing problem of plastic pollution.

Half of all plastics ever produced were in the last 2 decades, and will increase by 70% in the next 2. Plastic is toxic to the planet and to animals. Once again, progress in public health has been stopped by big oil. We must prioritise planetary health over profit. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/30/c...

Archive on 4 - Shane MacGowan: The Old Main Drag - BBC Sounds Sean O’Hagan celebrates Shane MacGowan's lyrical genius as a voice of the Irish diaspora.

We lost this prophetic soul a year ago. The measure of our dreams. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Facts matter. Science saves lives. Anti-science destroys them.