The Center for Global Health Science and Security at Georgetown University wants o learn more about the key innovations that mental health practitioners, researchers, and policy makers have observed working on mental health during disease outbreaks. This survey is an opportunity for practitioners to share their insights, challenges and lessons learned. Findings will be documented in a research paper for a special collection in SSM-Mental Health on “Mental Health Interventions in Epidemics: The Best and the Rest in Research, Evidence, Intervention, and Policy Responses.” The survey should take 15-20 minutes.
In this exploratory survey, they are asking you to bring to our attention policy and practice-based mental health and psychosocial interventions (MHPSS) that you believe had significant benefits for individuals, families, communities, and social systems during epidemics. Their research is inclusive of COVID-19, Cholera, HIV/AIDS, Monkeypox, and any other infectious disease outbreak that has occurred within the last decade. They want to learn from you about under-recognized, under-evaluated, and under-discussed individual and collective interventions that were perceived by practitioners to have a meaningful impact on mental health experience and outcomes. What interventions, in your opinion, were the best? The most creative? The most impactful? Which interventions had a big impact on societal and cultural experiences and outcomes?
Use this link to the Survey on Mental Health and Psychosocial Interventions (MHPSS) in Epidemics: The Best and the Rest in Policy and Practice.
