Emotional Agility and Resilience: A Practical Approach to Navigating through a Global Trauma
45mn
In partnership with Weyak.
The impact of COVID-19 on our community’s mental health has been considerable and there is an expected significant increase of mental health difficulties and greater need for psychological support. The global community has experienced high levels distress and the key themes have been anxiety, grief, trauma/PTSD and significant loss leading to depression. Developing an understanding and education around mental health is therefore important as well as equipping and empowering individuals with the right coping mechanisms. However, in the journey to resilience and mental wellness as a global community, a vital skill that is often missed is ‘emotional agility’ which often leads to further suffering and gets in the way of recovery. It is therefore vital that individuals have the adequate understanding and skills which includes emotional agility in order to promote psychological flourishing.
In partnership with Silatech.
Marginalized categories such as women and young people have been severely and disproportionally affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and suffered damages and losses that are estimated to last for decades to come. According to the ILO, more than one in six young people aged 18-29 became unemployed since the start of the pandemic.
The estimations of Human Rights Watch (HRW) show that the economic fallout is expected to increase poverty headcount at $5.50 per day by about half billion people, which comprises 8% of the world’s population. This could reverse the global progress in reducing poverty by a decade, and in conflict regions the damages could last for longer than 30 years.
The economic and social impacts on women and young people working in the healthcare sector in war and conflict-affected areas highlight the massive need for cooperation and multi-sectoral partnership between different sectors to recover and move forward in the development agenda. Today, the world has a great responsibility to respond and to come up with innovative, comprehensive, inclusive, and forward-looking policy responses to help young people through the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond to prevent the long-lasting losses for young people.
The Intersection of COVID-19 and Brain Health
45mn
Mental and neurological conditions account for 9% of the global burden of disease and cost the global economy over US$3 trillion annually. These numbers are likely underestimates, not reflecting the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental and neurological health. Yet only 14% of the global disease burden for mental health can be averted by 2040 by scaling up existing treatments, which means that significant additional investment in research is needed.
The Intersection of COVID-19 and Brain Health session will discuss how COVID-19 affects mental and neurological health and identify key gaps and opportunities to make an impact. There will be a special focus on the effects in developing countries. The presentation will conclude with an introduction of the Healthy Brains Global Initiative (HBGI), an ambitious US$10 billion initiative recently profiled in the Financial Times. HBGI will mobilize US$500 million to address brain health in the context of COVID-19.
Using Social Media to Promote Better Health Outcomes in the Arabic-speaking World
45mn
Social media platforms have become more important than before in our daily life, as they have begun to play the role of liaison between family members, friends and co-workers as well, in addition to the much-needed entertainment with the increasing of our physical isolation in the Covid-19 pandemic, as it requires current access to social media platforms for information need, especially given the circumstances that more people seek immediate information.
This panel session is to highlight the positive role of social media platforms in promoting awareness and protecting the health of society in Arab world. It is an essential source for sharing health awareness, promoting for better health outcomes and increasing knowledge among people, especially at the present time, by helping millions of people to stay in contact with each other, and to combat misinformation and fake news, and increase the reliable content on its various platforms.
