Victor Ugo

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Job role:

Founder

Affiliation:

Mentally Aware Nigeria Initiative (MANI)

Member type:

Practitioner/Implementer

Service User Representative/Advocate

Other

Brief Biography:

Victor is the founder of Nigeria's and one of Africa’s largest user-led youth mental health network, Mentally Aware Nigeria Initiative; with over 1500 active volunteers and chapters in 15 out of 36 states in Nigeria. In his role at the forefront of mental health in Nigeria his organisation won the 2017 Nelson Mandela-Graca Machel innovation award for the best civil society organisation and has been inducted as one of the 100 sparks of hope across the world by The Elders (an organisation of past world leaders founded by Nelson Mandela). Among other first-of-its-kind projects he’s worked on is the setup of the most active distress hotline in the country with over 15,000 interventions in 28 months. Victor is the Nigerian representative for the Global Mental Health Peer Network as well as the Nigerian lead for the United for Global Mental Health’s country led advocacy and policy campaign – Speak Your Mind.

Approach:

Policy and legislation

Empowerment and service user involvement

Advocacy

Prevention and promotion

Detection and diagnosis

Treatment, care and rehabilitation

Training, education and capacity building

Regions of interest:

Africa

Population:

Maternal and neonatal health

Disorders of interest:

All disorders

Country:

Nigeria

My contributions

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Seminar: Rebalancing Power in Global Mental Health

This symposium marked the Centre for Global Mental Health's 10 year anniversary and explored the historical dominance in the global north of knowledge generation in global health.

Page type:

Health promotion