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Aiysha Malik
Individual
Mental Health Specialist
Biography
Mental health specialist at the World Health Organization, working for a world that supports, improves, and does not harm mental health. At WHO, I specialize in global mental health – covering, international and national policy, technical product development, research, and strengthening capacity of countries to address mental health care. Since 2017 I have coordinated the development, testing and training of WHO -UNICEF Early Adolescent Skills for Emotions (EASE) in Jordan, Lebanon, Pakistan, and Tanzania - and now oversee the global capacity building efforts for EASE. As technical lead on protecting the mental health of people living with communicable and non-communicable conditions, this work includes the implementation of a WHO field-test guidance on collaborative care for integrating mental health services into physical health disease programmes in the Dominican Republic and Ghana. In 2023, I joined WHO’s award winning Special Initiative for Mental Health working on strengthening and increasing the accessibility to quality mental health care in the Philippines. I am the lead for workplace mental health, where I published WHO’s first guidelines on mental health at work, and am now developing WHO training for general managers to better support employee mental health. From 2024, I will oversee the development of WHO’s first family intervention for people living with severe mental health conditions and work to strengthen efforts to include people with lived experience of mental health conditions in the development of WHO products. I hold a doctorate in Psychiatry (PhD) and doctorate in Clinical Psychology (DClinPsych) from the University of Oxford, UK.
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