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The Red Cross Red Crescent Movement MHPSS Hub is looking for a Strategic Advisor, Executive Office & Partnerships to provide strategic, organizational, and executive support to the Director of the MHPSS Hub.

The theme of 2nd Research Carnival on MHPSS taking place in Nairobi, Kenya 23-25 September 2026 is Reimagining Wellbeing: Indigenous Knowledge and Approaches and Protection of Humanitarian Workers.

The Red Cross Red Crescent Movement MHPSS Hub (MHPSS Hub) was launched on 1 January 2025 replacing the former IFRC Psychosocial Centre and still hosted by the Danish Red Cross.

The Red Cross Red Crescent Movement MHPSS Hub is looking for a Team Lead – Support to take on a key management role within our organisation.

The fifth and final episode in a video series created by the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement MHPSS Hub in collaboration with the Emergency Aid Orchestra (Nødhjælpsorkestret) has been published today.

Evidence from the Frontline: Mental Health in Crisis Affected Contexts is a six-episode podcast mini-series produced in a collaboration between the MHPSS Hub and Elrha.

The strategy has been developed based on the Terms of Reference for the MHPSS Hub, which were informed by a Movement-wide consultation in 2024 on the wishes and hopes for the new MHPSS Hub.

In this fifth episode, Sarah Harrison, Director of the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement MHPSS Hub, speaks with Professor Mark Jordans (researcher at King’s College London and Director of Research and Development at War Child), and Dr Zeinab Hijazi (Global Lead on Mental Health at UNICEF), to hear more about Early Adolescent Skills for Emotions (EASE).

In this fourth episode, Sarah Harrison, Director of the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement MHPSS Hub, speaks with Dr Waood Afara, Senior Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Officer at the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in Yemen‏, and Dr Elisabetta Dozio Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Specialist at Action Contre la Faim (Action Against Hunger- AAH) in France.

For our colleague Nisreen Qawas, MHPSS director for the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, the voice of Hind Rajab was the person at the other end of the emergency call she received on 29th of January 2024 – the day five-year old Hind was killed alongside her family members and the Palestinian Red Crescent Society teams that were sent to rescue her.

Evidence from the Frontline: Mental Health in Crisis Affected Contexts is a six-episode podcast mini-series produced in a collaboration between the MHPSS Hub and Elrha.

The theme of World Mental Health Day (WMHD) 2025 is mental health in catastrophes and emergencies – this is unfortunately, the daily workspace for millions of Red Cross Red Crescent volunteers and staff across the globe.