Meeting time
8:00 pm Palestine Time
1:00 pm US Eastern Time
10:00 am US Pacific Time
The Health Advisory Council and founding members of the Palestine-Global Mental Health Network will host a discussion examining the impact of occupation and the Covid 19 pandemic on resistance and mental health in Palestine. Clinicians from Gaza, East Jerusalem and the West Bank will share their direct experiences and expertise.
SPEAKERS:
Manal Abu Haq is a clinical social worker (M.S.W) and Psychoanalytic psychotherapist working with children, adolescents and adults in her private clinic in Ramleh, Historic Palestine. She is an active member of Psychoactive – mental health professionals for human rights and against the occupation. She was on the steering committee of the program for politically sensitive psychotherapy and the child detainee evaluation project and is a member of the child arrest project. She is an active member in the steering committee of Palestine Global Mental health Network.
Yasser Abu-Jamei is a Palestinian Psychiatrist who lives and works in Gaza. Dr Abu-Jamei is a member of the Task Force which developed the National Mental Health Strategy 2015-2019 in Palestine. Since January 2014, Dr Abu Jamei is the director general of Gaza Community Mental Health Programme, a leading mental health services provider in Palestine.
Samah Jabr is a psychiatrist practicing in the public and the private sectors within Palestine in East Jerusalem and the West Bank. She is currently the Head of the Mental Health Unit within the Palestinian MoH. She has taught both in the classroom and in clinical settings on the faculties of several Palestinian universities and George Washington University within the Division of Global Mental Health, where she is currently an Associate Clinical Professor.
MODERATOR:
Lama Z. Khouri is a psychotherapist working with children and adults. She has a private practice in New York, where she lives. She is a member of Jewish Voice for Peace, New York and a founding member of the Palestine-Global Mental Health Network. She comes to the field of mental health following a 14-year work experience at the United Nations (UN), most of which she spent at the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, where she was a Political Affairs Officer and the desk officer of the UN peacekeeping operations in Haiti and Georgia.