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Dec 3, 2025

Fifth episode in the Evidence from the Frontline: Mental Health in Crisis Affected Contexts podcast series is out

In this fifth episode, Sarah Harrison, Director of the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement MHPSS Hub, speaks with Professor Mark Jordans (researcher at King’s College London and Director of Research and Development at War Child), and Dr Zeinab Hijazi (Global Lead on Mental Health at UNICEF), to hear more about Early Adolescent Skills for Emotions (EASE).

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Nov 20, 2025

Fourth episode in the Evidence from the Frontline: Mental Health in Crisis Affected Contexts podcast series is out

In this fourth episode, Sarah Harrison, Director of the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement MHPSS Hub, speaks with Dr Waood Afara, Senior Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Officer at the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in Yemen‏, and Dr Elisabetta Dozio Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Specialist at Action Contre la Faim (Action Against Hunger- AAH) in France.

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Oct 20, 2025

Podcast: Moral Injury in the line of duty

For our colleague Nisreen Qawas, MHPSS director for the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, the voice of Hind Rajab was the person at the other end of the emergency call she received on 29th of January 2024 – the day five-year old Hind was killed alongside her family members and the Palestinian Red Crescent Society teams that were sent to rescue her.

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Oct 14, 2025

Third Episode in the Evidence from the Frontline: Mental Health in Crisis Affected Contexts podcast series is out

Evidence from the Frontline: Mental Health in Crisis Affected Contexts is a six-episode podcast mini-series produced in a collaboration between the MHPSS Hub and Elrha.

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Sep 10, 2024

World Suicide Prevention Day: Join the Conversation

According to the World Health Organization (WHO) Suicide is a major public health challenge, with more than 700,000 deaths each year globally. Each suicide has far-reaching social, emotional, and economic consequences, and deeply affects individuals and communities worldwide. The theme of World Suicide Prevention Day 2024 is about changing the narrative and perceptions around suicides – to start the conversation.

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Sep 9, 2024

Community disaster resilience

In this episode of Heartbeat of Humanity, MHPSS Technical Advisor Shona Whitton talks to Antonia Mackay about how communities can build resilience to climate disasters and other shocks and hazards. Antonia Mackay is the National Resilience Manager at Australian Red Cross, where she leads the organisation’s disaster resilience programming, including key initiatives like emergency-ready workshops and ready communities.

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Sep 6, 2024

Guidance Note: Mental health and Psychosocial Support Implications of Mpox Outbreaks

The IFRC Psychosocial Centre has published a guidance note providing an overview of the psychosocial consequences of virus outbreaks, with a focus on mpox, and outlines key considerations for MHPSS programming. The guidance note is intended for Red Cross Red Crescent National Societies and IFRC departments who may be responding to Mpox in their country, or region.

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Sep 3, 2024

Supportive Supervision: Two New Guides Out

The IFRC Psychosocial Centre has published two new guides on supportive supervision. The guides offers tools enabling Red Cross Red Crescent National Societies to get started on building supportive supervision systems.

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Aug 26, 2024

Psychological First Aid Camp for Children in Gaza – A Moment of Safety in a Dire Reality

Khan Yunis in the Southern Gaza strip has been the scene of intense bombardments and violence and Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) has introduced a new way of supporting the children exposed.

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Aug 23, 2024

Mental health and the climate crisis

In this episode of Heartbeat of Humanity, MHPSS Technical Advisor Shona Whitton talks to Ana Mejia about mental health and the climate crisis. Ana Mejia is a former member of the Youth Advisory Group of the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, and a volunteer from the Ecuadorian Red Cross. Ana leads a Mental Health and Psychosocial Support team in the local Red Cross branch and she recently started to work as a consultant with the health team of the Red Cross Climate Centre.

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Aug 19, 2024

World Humanitarian Day: Remembering the Lost and Caring for the Living

On 19th October 2024 the IFRC, the UN and key humanitarian actors, are calling for an end to these violations of human principles and international law. The IFRC do so under the plea “Protect Humanity!” As the IFRC Psychosocial Centre we join that call because we know that too many of our colleagues across the globe have paid the highest price doing exactly that – protecting humanity.

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Aug 15, 2024

Disaster preparedness and disaster resilience

In this episode of Heartbeat of Humanity, MHPSS Technical Advisor Shona Whitton talks to John Richardson about disaster preparedness, disaster resilience and disaster risk reduction. And why it is a problem calling fires, floods and storms ‘natural disasters’.

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Aug 7, 2024

ORF Podcast: Sport and Refugee Protection

The latest episode in the podcast series ‘Think Sport. Think Refuge.’ from the Olympic Refuge Foundation (ORF) explores how sports can support the global mandate for refugee protection.

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Aug 6, 2024

Blessures morales et dilemmes Éthiques/ethical dilemma and moral injury

Dans cet épisode de Heartbeat of Humanity, Arz Stephan, conseiller technique SMSPSS, s’entretient avec Ahlem Cheffi, conseillère technique de SMSPS, sur les concepts de « dilemme éthique » et de « blessure morale » et sur leur impact sur les travailleurs humanitaires, y compris le personnel et les bénévoles de la Croix-Rouge et du Croissant-Rouge, qui font souvent partie des premiers intervenants.

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Aug 5, 2024

Event Report Out: How to Talk to your Students About Mental Health

The Toolkit/Guide ‘A Hopeful, Healthy and Happy Living and Learning’ was presented in the context of a webinar on 17 June developed as part of the EU funded MENTALITY project piloting established and promising mental health practices with a focus on education in Europe.

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Jul 2, 2024

PFA training for youth in Greenland

In this episode Communication Officer at the IFRC PS Centre, Villads Zahle interviews project manager, Erni Kristiansen and project consultant, Bebbie Petersen about youth to youth Psychological First Aid (PFA) in Greenland.

The Red Cross Red Crescent (RCRC) Movement MHPSS Hub (MHPSS Hub) is dedicated to advancing mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) throughout the RCRC Movement. Hosted by the Danish Red Cross, the Hub collaborates with National Societies, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), as well as international humanitarian organisations and academic institutions. By uniting expertise from across the Movement and beyond, we help build stronger, more resilient communities better equipped to cope with crises and recover from adversity.