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Speak Your Mind and the Mental Health Innovation Network worked together with national leads to develop eight country profiles to inform campaigning work at a national level. This blog presents a summary of the key findings across all eight countries.

In these video interviews, health care workers share challenges, activities and recommendations continuing mental health services during COVID-19.

In these video interviews, health care workers share challenges, activities and recommendations in supporting staff mental health during COVID-19.

Stories from the field: Blog posts from health care workers providing mental health and psychosocial support during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Stories from the field: Blog posts from health care workers providing mental health and psychosocial support during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Stories from the field: Blog posts from health care workers providing mental health and psychosocial support during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Stories from the field: Blog posts from health care workers providing mental health and psychosocial support during the COVID-19 pandemic.

As the UK co-hosts a Coronavirus Global Response Summit today, mental health activists Florence Baingana, Rochelle Burgess, and Nigel Taylor argue that for an effective response, it will be critical to address the higher levels of mental illness stemming with the crisis. They call for a mental health lens to be applied across all responses to COVID-19 to consider the mental health implications and potential mitigation action. Whilst increased investment in poorly resourced mental services will be important, responses that address the social and economic pathways to poor mental health may have greater effect.

Stories from the field: Blog posts from health care workers providing mental health and psychosocial support during the COVID-19 pandemic.