Welcome to the Flourishing Minds Podcast with Chris Underhill.

In this episode, we have a special guest, Dr. Irene Falgas Bague. She is a clinical psychiatrist and project leader at the department of epidemiology and public health at the Swiss TPH.

In her career, she has transformed lives through her work on the mental health of refugee patients in Barcelona, her contribution to building women’s wellbeing initiatives in Zambia, and addressing youth mental health in South Africa.

In the conversation, we talked about her medical research journey from Barcelona to Zambia, the Youth Suicide epidemic in Africa, the importance of cultural psychiatry, advice for aspirants in this field, and much more.

Feel free to reach out: irene.falgasbague@swisstph.ch

Welcome to the Flourishing Minds Podcast with Chris Underhill.

In this episode, we have a special guest, Ms. Sarah Kline.

She is the co-founder and CEO of United for Global Mental Health.

Over the course of her career, Sarah has developed and executed successful national and international campaigns in various esteemed institutions, including the UN, WHO, and political parties, shedding light on alarming issues such as HIV/AIDS, the Ebola crisis, malaria, and mental health.

In the conversation, we discussed her journey, democratizing wellbeing efforts for HIV/AIDS patients, the connection of global warming to suicide rates, current mental health policies and much more.

Feel free to reach out: info@unitedgmh.org.

#sarahkline, #unitednations, #unitedforglobalmentalhealth, #mentalhealth, #selfhelppodcast.

Welcome to the Flourishing Minds Podcast with Chris Underhill.

In this episode, we have a special guest, Prof. Shekhar Saxena.

He is a professor of the Practice of global mental health at the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. He has served as Director of the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse at the World Health Organization (WHO) for 20 years, authored 350+ academic papers, and received the prestigious Leon Eisenberg Award from Harvard Medical School.

In the conversation, we talked about Professor Saxena’s life journey as a psychiatrist, his experience at WHO, mental health breakthroughs during catastrophes, political and industrial challenges in the Mental health field, and much more.

Feel free to reach out: shekhar.saxena.who@gmail.com

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