Stories From a Pandemic: Breakdown or Breakthrough?
04/20/21 • 31 min
https://www.mannmela.in/
We know that COVID-19 is not creating a new mental health crisis but expanding an existing crisis and highlighting that we simply do not have the resources and breadth of effective treatments to deal with it. We talk with global expert Prof Vikram Patel from Harvard Medical School about how we can prioritize and put mental health front and center in India’s response to and recovery from COVID-19. We also meet three young people, Divya, Kehkasha, and Suraj, about that one day in the pandemic they will never forget.
Episode Contributors: Prof. Vikram Patel, Divya Hariharan, Kehkasha Sheikh, and Suraj* (Name changed)
Host: Pattie Gonsalves
Produced in New Delhi by Faith Gonsalves.
Audio and music produced by Ishaan Gandhi.
Contributor management by Sweta Pal.
Artwork by Natasha Yadav.
A project of Sangath, supported by the Wellcome Trust.
https://www.mannmela.in/
We know that COVID-19 is not creating a new mental health crisis but expanding an existing crisis and highlighting that we simply do not have the resources and breadth of effective treatments to deal with it. We talk with global expert Prof Vikram Patel from Harvard Medical School about how we can prioritize and put mental health front and center in India’s response to and recovery from COVID-19. We also meet three young people, Divya, Kehkasha, and Suraj, about that one day in the pandemic they will never forget.
Episode Contributors: Prof. Vikram Patel, Divya Hariharan, Kehkasha Sheikh, and Suraj* (Name changed)
Host: Pattie Gonsalves
Produced in New Delhi by Faith Gonsalves.
Audio and music produced by Ishaan Gandhi.
Contributor management by Sweta Pal.
Artwork by Natasha Yadav.
A project of Sangath, supported by the Wellcome Trust.
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Through our podcast, we consider from a personal, research, and policy perspective, how the COVID-19 pandemic offers us a historic opportunity to examine a range of challenges related to how young people live, learn and work, and transform our approach to addressing their mental health concerns for the long-term.
The research for this podcast included consultations with 40 young people from across India, captured through a series of online focused-group discussions and individual interviews conducted by our team between December 2020 and April 2021.
Stories From A Pandemic - Stories From a Pandemic: Breakdown or Breakthrough?
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Host: One of COVID 19's most powerful effects has been its ability to hold up a mirror to our society, both at a global level and at a deeply personal one - showing us things in ourselves we have long avoided or preferred not to see at all. While this pandemic will pass, we cannot expect life to return to the way it was before. It's more important now for us to imagine futures in which the scars may remain but we are changed by this experience, to be more resilient i
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