COVID-19: Mental Health Strategies for Coping and Resilience

The COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented global health emergency that affects us all. In this session, a panel of Americares medical, mental health and frontline field operations experts will address how the pandemic affects health workers who provide services, and the general public. Americares specialists will discuss what each of us can do to address the mental health challenges and stress we face, including coping and resilience mechanisms.

Americares track record with disaster response and field operations sets the stage to explore how COVID-19 is spreading, its ripple effects on our mental health, and what can be done to address it—through our own actions and those of communities around the world. Americares will share strategies decision-makers, donors, businesses, field health operations and health practitioners can apply today to protect our mental wellbeing during the COVID-19 global health disaster.

Panelists:
-Julie Varughese, MD, Vice President, Chief Medical Officer, infectious disease specialist
-Gabriela Salvador, MD, Director, Latin American/Caribbean Programs
-Miguel Eduardo Marrero Medina, Mental Health Program Manager

Moderator: Jed Selkowitz, Senior Vice President, Communications

Americares is a health-focused relief and development organization, saving lives and improving health for those affected by poverty or disaster, and the world’s leading nonprofit provider of donated medicine.