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Health Workers Need Mental Health Care Too

Health Workers Need Mental Health Care Too

FromInto Africa


Health Workers Need Mental Health Care Too

FromInto Africa

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Length:
30 minutes
Released:
Jun 15, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Mvemba is joined by Rawan Hamadeh, Program Officer for Mental Health Programs at Project HOPE. Rawan highlights Project HOPE’s mental health and resilience initiatives and how the organization has been able to train over 100,000 health workers across the globe, of which 25,000 are from Africa. They discuss the limited mental health resources available to health workers around the world, and how COVID-19 exacerbated these challenges. They dive deeper into the stigma surrounding mental health and the role of policymakers in prioritizing mental health by allocating more funding to the sector.
Released:
Jun 15, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Fearless music activists. Savvy tech entrepreneurs. Social disrupters. Into Africa shatters the narratives that dominate U.S. perceptions of Africa. Host Judd Devermont, Africa program director at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington D.C., sits down with policymakers, journalists, academics and other trailblazers in African affairs to shine a spotlight on the faces spearheading cultural, political, and economic change on the continent.