How’s everybody feeling? The COVID-19 pandemic has brought home to many of us the importance of maintaining our mental health, but it has been particularly hard on patients, caregivers, and health workers. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams offer mental health and psychosocial support as part of our emergency work around the world. We also provide training and support for our aid workers to help them cope with the stress, grief, anger, and frustration that often come with the job.

ONLINE DISCUSSION SERIES

Starting on
Thursday, October 15

1:00 PM EDT

Join us on Thursday, October 15, for the next episode of our webcast series Let’s Talk, focused on the mental health challenges we face during the COVID-19 pandemic and in other emergency situations. We’ll compare our experiences from confronting the Ebola epidemic in Democratic Republic of Congo to facing the threat of the coronavirus in nursing homes in Europe and the United States. We’ll be in conversation with Sanne Kaelen, a clinical psychologist with MSF in Belgium; Ebony Lucas, a therapist and wellness support officer who worked with MSF in long-term care facilities in Detroit, Michigan; and Athena Viscusi, a clinical social worker and psychosocial care specialist for MSF-USA. Together with our host, MSF-USA executive director Avril Benoît, this expert panel will answer your questions about the psychosocial care MSF provides to our patients, health workers, and humanitarian workers in crisis situations. This special episode is part of our efforts to raise awareness around World Mental Health Day, October 10.

Once you register, you'll receive an email confirmation with a Zoom link to attend online. You will also have the option to dial in by phone.

*If you missed earlier events in our summer series, Let's Talk COVID-19, you can catch up here.

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