Heartbeat of Humanity
Episodes
من الاستجابة الإنسانية إلى التعافي المجتمعي: تجربة الهلال الأحمر العربي السوري في الدعم النفسي الاجتماعي والحماية
18 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
في هذه الحلقة، نتعرّف مع الدكتورة فايزة العبدالله من الهلال الأحمر العربي السوري ع...
Crises, migration et santé mentale et soutien psychosocial – Coordination et rôle clé de la Croix-Rouge Nigérienne et de ses partenaires
11 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Dans cet épisode de Heartbeat of Humanity, le podcast du Mouvement Croix-Rouge Croissant-Rouge dédié à la santé mentale et au soutien psychosocia...
Soins de santé mentale communautaires en Afrique : Renforcer les communautés et les systèmes
19 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Dans cet épisode du podcast Heartbeat of Humanity, Ahlem Cheffi, spécialiste SMSPS du Centre du Mouvement de la Croix-Rouge et du Croissant-Rouge po...
Sports with Social Impact: Girl Power
08 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This episode focuses on the potential of sports in supporting inclusion and mental health. Khalida Popal is an award-winning Afghan football pioneer...
Evidence from the Frontline: Mental Health in Crisis Affected Contexts, episode 6: AI and chatbots
17 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Too far, too fast?”In this sixth episode, Sarah Harrison, Director of the MHPSS Hub, and Dan Amias, Senior Innovation Learning Adviser at Elrha, ...
Evidence from the Frontline: Mental Health in Crisis Affected Contexts, episode 5: EASE
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Evidence from the Frontline: Mental Health in Crisis Affected Contexts, episode 5: EASE“What matters to young people? Climate, jobs, and mental heal...
Evidence from the Frontline: Mental Health in Crisis Affected Contexts, episode 4: Thinking Healthy
20 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tackling the complex issue of perinatal mental health. Thinking Healthy (TH), a brief psychological intervention that can be delivered by trained and...
Moral Injury in the line of duty
20 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On 3 September 2025 the docudrama the Voice of Hind Rajab had its world premiere during the 82nd Venice International Film Festival. The movie directe...
Evidence from the Frontline: Mental Health in Crisis Affected Contexts, episode 3: CETA
14 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When is a transdiagnostic approach the best route to quality mental health care in crisis affected context, and how does it work in practice?In this t...
Evidence from the Frontline: Mental Health in Crisis Affected Contexts, episode 2: Child Friendly Spaces
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Do Child Friendly Spaces (CFS) really improve children’s mental health?Child-Friendly Spaces (CFS) are safe, structured places established quickly i...
Evidence from the Frontline: Mental Health in Crisis Affected Contexts, episode 1: Self-Help Plus
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do we adapt an evidence-based mental health intervention for different communities in crisis-affected settings?In this first episode Sarah Harriso...
Teaser: New podcast series coming up
28 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this short teaser, Acting Director of the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement MHPSS Hub Sarah Harrison introduces a coming podcast series on the Heartb...
Regional trainings in Africa and the Americas
26 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Heartbeat of Humanity, Communications Officer Jesper Guhle interviews MHPSS specialists Cátia Matos and Guleed Dualeh about the fi...
MHPSS in the Africa region
22 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Heartbeat of Humanity, through four interviews, Communications Officer Jesper Guhle explores the MHPSS programmes and services prov...
Inside Sport Coach+: The role of sport in youth mental health
09 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we will talk about the Sport Coach+ initiative implemented in a partnership between the MHPSS Hub and the Olympic Refuge Foundation (O...
Who needs further support following a natural hazard?
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Heartbeat of Humanity is the fourth and last episode in a mini-series about the mental health of children and young adults in the cont...
Children and MHPSS: Getting through the first year after a natural hazard
04 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Heartbeat of Humanity, MHPSS Adviser Arz Stephan talks to Brett McDermott about how parents and caregivers can help children get th...
Helping children after a natural hazard: tips for parents and teachers
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Heartbeat of Humanity, MHPSS Adviser Arz Stephan talks to Brett McDermott about how parents and teachers can help children after a ...
Mental health, natural hazards and children
14 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Heartbeat of Humanity, MHPSS Adviser Arz Stephan talks to Brett McDermott about mental health, natural hazards and children. Brett ...
Digital MHPSS
22 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Heartbeat of Humanity, Monia Aebersold and Kristofer Vernmark explains the concept and the benefits of digital MHPSS and present th...
Feeling responsible for the safety of colleagues in a shrinking humanitarian space: the MHPSS Specialist
08 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this third and final episode in a podcast series about ‘feeling responsible for the safety of colleagues in a shrinking humanitarian space’ MHP...
Feeling responsible for the safety of colleagues in a shrinking humanitarian space: the Crisis Communicator
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this second of three episodes in a series about ‘feeling responsible for the safety of colleagues in a shrinking humanitarian space’ MHPSS Hub,...
Feeling responsible for the safety of colleagues in a shrinking humanitarian space: the Security Adviser
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this first of three episodes in a series about 'feeling responsible for the safety of colleagues in a shrinking humanitarian space' MHPSS...
Working with children with missing family members
21 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this third and final episode of our miniseries on Ambiguous Loss, we dig deep with Roubina Tahmazian from ICRC into the critical yet often overlook...
Ambiguous Loss in the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement
14 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this second episode in a three part miniseries about ambiguous loss, MHPSS Technical Advisor Arz Stefan talks to Dr. Maureen Mooney about operation...
Ambiguous loss
07 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this first episode in a three part miniseries about ambiguous loss, Red Cross Red Crescent Movement Hub MHPSS Technical Advisor Arz Stephan engages...
Memory and legacy of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami
10 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Heartbeat of Humanity, MHPSS Technical Advisor Shona Whitton talks with Associate Professor Emmanual Raju from the University of Co...
Reflecting on the impact of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami on global MHPSS practice
03 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, MHPSS Technical Advisor Shona Whitton talks with Professor Emeritus Mike Wessells from Columbia University about developments in MHPS...
MHPSS responses to the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami in Sri Lanka
26 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is the second episode in a four-part series of Heartbeat of Humanity reflecting on the impacts of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunamis. ...
Health responses to the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami in Indonesia
19 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is the first episode in a four-part series of Heartbeat of Humanity reflecting on the impacts of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunamis. ...
Caring for Staff and Volunteers: When your workplace is a warzone - voices from the field - Arabic
30 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Heartbeat of Humanity, Ahlem Cheffi, PS Centre MHPSS technical advisor for the MENA region talks to Nisreen Qawas, MHPSS director f...
Duty of care: supportive supervision for staff and volunteers - Arabic
30 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Heartbeat of Humanity, Ahlem Cheffi, PS Centre MHPSS technical advisor for the MENA region explains the concept of supportive super...
Community disaster resilience
09 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Heartbeat of Humanity, MHPSS Technical Advisor Shona Whitton talks to Antonia Mackay about how communities can build resilience to ...
Mental health and the climate crisis
23 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Heartbeat of Humanity, MHPSS Technical Advisor Shona Whitton talks to Ana Mejia about mental health and the climate crisis.Ana Meji...
Disaster preparedness and disaster resilience
15 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Heartbeat of Humanity, MHPSS Technical Advisor Shona Whitton talks to John Richardson about disaster preparedness, disaster resilie...
Blessures morales et dilemmes Éthiques
02 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
English text belowDans cet épisode de Heartbeat of Humanity, Arz Stephan, conseiller technique SMSPSS, s’entretient avec Ahlem Cheffi, conseillère...
PFA training for youth in Greenland
01 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Communication Officer at the IFRC PS Centre, Villads Zahle interviews project manager, Erni Kristiansen and project consultant, Bebbie...
Presenting Training Guide on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergencies
03 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Communication Officer at the IFRC PS Centre, Villads Zahle interviews emergency expert and MHPSS technical advisor, Shona Whitton abou...
MHPSS evidence building in the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
30 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Heartbeat of Humanity, Sarah Kate van der Walt, Technical Adviser in the IFRC Psychosocial Centre and Monia Aebersold MHPSS, Intern...
Trauma and abuse along the EU borders
22 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Communication Officer at the IFRC PS Centre, Villads Zahle interviews Moaaz Allahham, a young Syrian man forced onto an irregular rout...
Kenya Red Cross' new MHPSS framework and mental health stigma in Kenya
19 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Heartbeat of Humanity, Communications Officer Trine Rosa Larsen interviews Kenya Red Cross MHPSS practitioners Soony Wendy, Leyla S...
Survivor Guilt and Moral Injury
12 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Heartbeat of Humanity, Communications Officer Jesper Guhle interviews MHPSS Technical Advisors Arz Stephan and Anna Goloktionova ...
Supporting children during conflicts or disasters
14 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Heartbeat of Humanity, IFRC Psychosocial Centre Technical Advisor Ea Suzanne Akasha talks to Mozhdeh Ghasemiyani, psychosocial foca...
Introducing the Mental Health & Psychosocial Support in Humanitarian Emergencies micro-credential
10 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Heartbeat of Humanity, Head of MHPSS Technical Unit Sarah Harrison and Dr. Frédérique Vallières, Associate Professor of Psycholo...
Memorials and Healing
27 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Heartbeat of Humanity, Communications Officer Trine Rosa Larsen interviews MHPSS Technical Advisor Shona Whitton about memorials, w...
Mental Health and Youth
10 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Heartbeat of Humanity, Communications Officer Trine Rosa Larsen is warming up to October 10 (World Mental Health Day 2023) by inter...
Mental Health and Human Rights
19 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Heartbeat of Humanity, Communications Officer Jesper Guhle interviews Co-Chair for the IASC Reference Group for MHPSS in Emergencie...
Caring for Staff and Volunteers
14 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Heartbeat of Humanity, MHPSS Technical Adviseer Arz Stephan interviews IFRC PS Centre Director Nana Wiedeman about the importance a...
Creating access to mental health & psychosocial support across the continuum of care
24 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Heartbeat of Humanity, PS Centre Project Officer Veronika Dietz interviews Dr Sarah Miller, Clinical and Forensic Psychologist and ...
Evaluating the PS Centre
30 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 2022, Danish Red Cross and IFRC jointly commissioned an external evaluation of the work of the PS Centre for the years 2015 to 2022. The evaluation...
How to ensure wellbeing for staff and volunteers
21 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Heartbeat of Humanity, Arz Stephan and Guleed Dualeh, MHPSS Technical Advisors with the PS Centre discuss the importance of and how...
Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Eastern Africa
02 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast of Heartbeat of Humanity, Communications Officer, Trine, interviews Guleed Dualeh, IFRC PS Centre MHPSS Technical Advisor for the Afri...
One year into the conflict: The MHPSS needs of Ukrainians and the Red Cross response
15 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Heartbeat of Humanity, IFRC Psychosocial Centre Communications Officer Jesper Guhle interviews Bethan McEvoy, MHPSS delegate for th...
Mental Health and Psychosocial Support assessment in Ukraine
10 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Heartbeat of Humanity, Communications Officer Jesper Guhle interviews Sarah Harrison, Head of the MHPSS Technical Unit in the Psych...
Mental Health of Children in Migration
20 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Heartbeat of Humanity, IFRC Psychosocial Centre Communications Officer Jesper Guhle explores how humanitarian actors can support th...
MHPSS needs and services in Afghanistan
28 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Heartbeat of Humanity, IFRC Psychosocial Centre Technical Advisor Ea Suzanne Akasha focus on the mental health and psychosocial nee...
Basic Psychosocial Support across Sectors
26 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Heartbeat of Humanity, IFRC Psychosocial Centre Communications Officer Jesper Guhle interviews Sarah Davidson, Head of Psychosocial...
Advocating for Mental Health and Psychosocial Support
26 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Heartbeat of Humanity, IFRC Psychosocial Centre Project Assistant Veronika Dietz interviews Eva Svoboda, Deputy Director of Inter...
Suicide Prevention in The Red Cross Red Crescent Movement
01 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Heartbeat of Humanity, IFRC Psychosocial Centre Senior Communications Advisor Jesper Guhle interviews Technical Team Lead Sarah Har...
Community mental health care
03 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Technical Advisor Sarah Harrison interviews MHPSS Advisor Pernille Hansen about community mental health care and the steps staff and ...
Mental health of children and young adults
12 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Heartbeat of Humanity, Ea Suzanne Akasha, Technical Advisor at the IFRC Psychosocial Centre, interviews professor Dr. Barbara Juen,...
Violence against women
08 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
8 March is International Women's Day, a day we commemorate the cultural, political, and socioeconomic achievements of women.In this episode of ...
Mental Health in an Unequal World
16 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Heartbeat of Humanity, Communications Officer Jesper Guhle explores the potential mental health consequences for people forced to m...
Caring for the carers
01 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Heartbeat of Humanity, Technical Advisor Ea Suzanne Akasha interviews Stephen Regel, Clinical Lead for the Centre for Trauma, Res...
Vaccine hesitancy
05 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Heartbeat of Humanity, IFRC Psychosocial Centre Technical Advisor Eliza Cheung interviews Technical Advisor Melanie Powell about ...
Mental Health and Climate Change
13 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Heartbeat of Humanity, Technical Advisor Ea Suzanne Akasha interviews Pablo Suarez, Associate Director for Research and Innovatio...
World Suicide Prevention Day
09 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On World Suicide Day, Communications Officer Jesper Guhle interviews IFRC Psychosocial Centre Technical Advisor Kelly McBride about the causes of suic...
Sleep well!
19 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Communications Officer Jesper Guhle interviews Technical Advisor Ea Suzanne Akasha about the importance of sleep.During the interview, Ea mentions sev...
The MHPSS work of ICRC
04 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Heartbeat of Humanity, Technical Advisor Sarah Harrison interviews Milena Osorio, MHPSS Programme Coordinator at the International ...
Supporting Red Cross Red Crescent National Societies in the Balkans
08 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Communications Officer Jesper Guhle interviews Technical Advisor Sarah Harrison about her journey to North Macedonia to conduct a training on Mental H...
The Hopeful, Healthy & Happy Living & Learning Toolkit
04 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Sarah Harrison, Technical Advisor for the PS Centre, interviews the authors of the newly released “A Hopeful, Healthy, and Happy Li...
MHPSS in the Africa Region with Alex Ssimbwa
02 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Heartbeat of Humanity, technical advisor at the IFRC Psychosocial Centre Anouk Boschma interviews Alex Ssimbwa, the regional IFRC M...
Scalable Psychological Interventions
04 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Heartbeat of Humanity, technical advisor at the IFRC Psychosocial Centre Sarah Harrison explores the term ‘Scalable Psychological...
Pandemic fatigue
27 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Heartbeat of Humanity, technical advisor at the IFRC Psychosocial Centre Sarah Harrison interviews Dr. Eliza Cheung, also a technic...
Cultural adaptation of Group Problem Management Plus
22 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Heartbeat of Humanity, technical advisor at the IFRC Psychosocial Centre Sarah Harrison interviews Dr. Michelle Engels, also a tech...
Implementación de Manejando tus Problemas en Colombia / Implementation of PM+ in Colombia
08 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Carmen Valle-Trabadelo, asesora técnica del Centro de ReferenciaPsicosocial de la Federación Internacional de la Cruz Roja, entrevista a Camila Pere...
Online Problem Management Plus training during COVID-19
31 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Kelly McBride, Technical Advisor for the IFRC Reference Centre for Psychosocial Support, interviews dr. Adam Brown, Director of Trauma and Global Ment...
Mental health of young adults during COVID-19
18 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ea Suzanne Akasha, technical advisor at the IFRC PS Centre, interviews professor Dr. Barbara Juen, technical manager of the psychosocial services at t...
Women and leadership
08 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On 8 March, International Women’s Day, PS Centre Communication Assistant Barbara Levin asks Nana Wiedemann, Director of the IFRC Reference C...
MHPSS and protection
03 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Heartbeat of Humanity, PS Centre Technical Adviser Sarah Harrison and UNHCR’s Senior Mental Health Officer Peter Ventevogel dis...
Psychological First Aid for all!
17 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ea Suzanne Akasha, technical advisor at the IFRC Psycosocial Centre, interviews Melanie Powell, technical MHPSS technical advisor at PS Centre and MHP...
Advocating for MHPSS
10 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A conversation about MHPSS advocacy between MHPSS technical advisor Sarah Harrison, independent consultant on MHPSS in emergency settings Marggriet Bl...
Interview w dr. Barbara Juen part 2: How can we increase resilience during and after COVID-19?
03 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ea Suzanne Akasha, technical advisor at the IFRC PS Centre, interviews professor dr. Barbara Juen, technical manager of the psychosocial services at t...
Interview w dr. Barbara Juen part 1: ABC of disasters and research findings applied to COVID-19
26 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ea Suzanne Akasha, technical advisor at the IFRC PS Centre, interviews professor dr. Barbara Juen, technical manager of the psychosocial services at t...
Caring for staff and volunteers part 2
19 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this second episode of the Heartbeat of Humanity podcast produced by the IFRC Reference Centre for Psychosocial Support, technical advisor Sarah Ha...
Caring for staff and volunteers part 1
13 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this first episode of the Heartbeat of Humanity podcast produced by the IFRC Reference Centre for Psychosocial Support, technical advisor Sarah Har...