After years of preparation, we are ready to start our new social enterprise: providing much needed elder care in Cambodia. Sereypheap Elder Care is a social enterprise designed to become Cambodia’s leading provider of professional elderly home care. Our mission is to improve the quality of life for the elderly while supporting families through trained, reliable, and affordable services in Cambodia. We bridge the gap between traditional filial responsibility and modern professional care.
On 14 and 15 June 2021, the international online conference entitled “Mental health voices from Africa” focused on the challenges, needs and practices of mental health and psychosocial support in French-speaking Africa. The conference aimed to be a first step on the way to creating a platform for sharing interdisciplinary and intercultural contributions. This conference …
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MPH-alumnus and laureate John De Maesschalck (Belgium) on “PREVENTING SUICIDE IN INDIGENOUS YOUTH – Insights from a scoping review to prevent indigenous youth suicide in the Andes region” Thursday 23 September 13:00 CET, free for all, register here The latest report of the UN Special Rapporteur on mental health highlights the ongoing prominence of the …
The Taliban took power in Afghanistan two weeks before the U.S. was set to withdrawal its troops after a costly two-decade war. The insurgents captured all major cities in a matter of days as Afghan security forces and its allies moved back. The Taliban, a militant group that ran the country in the late 1990s, …
Afghanistan: Time to get to work! After the attack on Kabul airport, the American-led international military intervention in Afghanistan has surely reached its Waterloo. Now that the other international military presence, operating as IS, Islamic State-Khorasan, Daesh or whatever name, is continuing the battle with deadly energy, the time is more urgent than ever to …
You can have a look here and also check this link to different translation of the booklet “My hero is you”. Here is the agenda: 2 June 2021 — Online — Putting Lived Experience at the Heart of Policy and Practice: Conversations on Mental Health by the Wellcome Trust 7 June 2021 — Online — Positioning Local Innovation as a Basis for Learning …
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Application open for annual Mental Health in Complex Emergencies course Over the past 16 years, the IIHA has run a popular 12-day course for mental health professionals. We will now be offering a distance learning course covering similar materials over a 15-week semester. This is a training course for mental health professionals and program staff …
Over the past 16 years, the IIHA has run a popular 12-day course for mental health professionals. We will now be offering a distance learning course covering similar materials over a 15-week semester. This is a training course for mental health professionals and program staff who wish to establish mental health or psychosocial programs in …
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In June we will talk about mental health in African settings -you are welcome to join! No costs or other strings attached (except that most of it is in French – but with translation)
Guest editorial for the newsletter of INTERNATIONAL HEALTH POLICIES The first anniversary of the C-thing has not gone unnoticed. Anniversaries provide moments to take stock, look back and think about what might come next. Last Spring, the early enthusiasm for transformational change was more tangible in the air than aerosols -but now, on our way …
interesting editorial about the local silencing of culture and its impact on mental health policy in Brazil, and the epistemic alienation created by globally defined self-assessments tools in Chile. In this editorial for BMJ Global Mental Health, Cristian Montenegro and Francisco Ortega aim to “unsettle and expand the relatively circumscribed place given to culture and …
