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Mental health and psychosocial support for people in humanitarian contexts
HEART talks
February 6, 2020

The mental health consequences of rapid onset emergencies, fragility, conflict and violence— compounded by the cyclical relationship between poverty and mental illness—are pressing challenges, especially in humanitarian settings. People with pre-existing psychosocial disabilities are also among the most vulnerable in these contexts. In this video, Alison Schafer and Mark van Ommeren from the World Health Organization discuss… Read more

Mental Health, psychosocial support
Health
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Mental health for children and young people
HEART talks
February 6, 2020

Roughly half of all mental health conditions start by the mid-teens, and three-quarters by the mid-twenties. Childhood and adolescence are key developmental stages when factors such as family, peers and school, as well as poverty, violence and other forms of adversity, can have lifelong consequences for mental health. At the same time, development interventions targeted… Read more

Children, Mental Health, young people
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Why mental health matters for social development
HEART talks
February 6, 2020

In this video, Julian Eaton from CBM and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine discusses the ‘disease-model’ approach to mental health, the social risk factors that can contribute to mental health conditions, and explores how social development programmes can improve mental health and psychosocial support outcomes. This video was produced from a training… Read more

Mental Health
Health
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Social development for mental health: scaling up promising and best practice in development
HEART talks
February 6, 2020

The 2018 Lancet Commission on global mental health and sustainable development makes the case for mental health to be integrated into all aspects of development as part of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. This means including people with psychosocial disabilities in the work that development organisations are already doing, incorporating more targeted approaches to mental… Read more

Mental Health, scaling up, social development
Health
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Health systems approaches to mental health
HEART talks
February 6, 2020

In this video, Jasmine Kalha, QualityRights Gujarat, discusses the benefits of a rights-based approach to mental health, the QualityRights framework in the context of health systems, the role that peer support should play in QualityRights, and her favourite Article of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). In this video, Soumitra Pathare,… Read more

health systems, Mental Health
Health
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Health financing: UHC, social health protection, technical efficiency and addressing hospital challenges
HEART talks
February 23, 2018

This series of health financing technical seminars organised by the Oxford Policy Management (OPM) Health team, in partnership with HEART, examined how the globally evolving health financing expertise can translate into advances that national health systems make towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC). More specifically, seminars brought together health financing experts from across the spectrum (government, academia,… Read more

health financing, hospital challenges, OPM Health, seminar series, social health protection, technical efficiency, UHC, universal health coverage
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Rosemary Morgan on gender in health systems research
HEART talks
May 20, 2016

Rosemary Morgan is a Research Fellow at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. In this HEART talks video, she talks about the project she works on, ‘Research in Gender and Ethics (RinGs): Building Stronger Health Systems’, and about the importance of making gender integral in health systems research. RinGs came about as a project… Read more

Gender, gender and health, Gender inequality, health inequalities, health systems
Gender
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Essential gender issues in relation to health systems
HEART talks
April 25, 2016

In a group interview Sarah Ssali (Makerere University), Sally Theobald (Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine), Rosemary Morgan (John Hopkins University) and Asha George (John Hopkins University) talk about essential gender issues in relation to health systems. They also promote the RinGs Initiative (Research in Gender and Ethics) and talk about how people can get involved…. Read more

gender and health, Gender equity, health systems
Gender
Health
Social Protection
Haja Wurie on incorporating gender into health systems reconstruction in post-Ebola Sierra Leone
HEART talks
February 15, 2016

Dr Haja Wurie is based at the College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences in Freetown, Sierra Leone. In this HEART talks video she describes the rebuilding of health systems in the post-conflict period in Sierra Leone as ‘fire-fighting’. This meant that the response did not adequately capture gender. Ensuring service provision for women and… Read more

Ebola, gender and health, Sierra Leone
Gender
Health
Social Protection
The importance of understanding gender equity in humanitarian responses to health issues
HEART talks
February 10, 2016

Valerie Percival is an Assistant Professor at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs. She leads the ReBUILD project ‘Building Back Better: Taking forward empirical research on the opportunities and constraints for building gender responsive health systems in post conflict contexts’. This is the focus of Valerie’s HEART talks video. The first issue for humanitarian focus… Read more

Gender, gender and health, gender-based violence, Post-Conflict, reconstruction
Education
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Education and disability research
HEART talks
June 11, 2015

Nidhi Singal is an expert on education and disability research at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. In this video she talks about direction of education in disability research in the southern context. She states that many debates in this field are mostly determined by the northern hegemonic understanding of disability and education. Only a… Read more

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