The Global MINDS Collective, is a not-for-profit organization that focuses on educating, connecting, and mobilizing mindful social innovators to catalyze self and system transformations for global mental health and wellbeing in local, international, and Indigenous contexts.
The MHPSS Collaborative is a global platform for research, innovation, learning and advocacy, and connects key academic and humanitarian actors with local civil society to give children and families in fragile circumstances the possibility to thrive.
Co-Chairs:
Raksha Sule, Co-Founder & Chief Knowledge Officer, The Global MINDS Collective
Christian Cossidente, Programs Associate, The Global MINDS Collective
Victor Ugo, MHPSS and Youth Advisor, MHPSS Collaborative
Advisory Panel:
The role of the advisory panel is to support building the vision of the Imaginarium. The advisory panel is represents different stakeholder identities, expertise and experiences:
Dr. Arlene MacDougall (Founder & CEO, The Global MINDS Collective), Canada
Dr. Leslie Snider (Director, MHPSS Collaborative), Denmark
Ms. Grace Gatera (Youth Leader, The Lancet; Lived Experience Expert Advisor, Wellcome Trust), Rwanda
Dr. Zeinab Hijazi (Senior Mental Health Technical Advisor, UNICEF), USA
Dr. Kate Martin (Head of Lived Experience, Wellcome Trust), UK
Dr. Angi Yoder-Maina (Executive Director, Green String Network), Kenya
Mr. Ananda Galappatti (Co-Founder, MHPSS.net; Technical Advisor on Psychosocial Support, GIZ), Sri Lanka
Ms. YooNa Kim (Global Youth Programs, citiesRise), USA
We are hosted and funded by
The MHPSS Collaborative is hosted by Save the Children, sharing a location in its offices in Copenhagen, Denmark. We are grateful to Danida for providing the seed funding for our core activities and existence. Danida is Denmark’s development cooperation, an area of activity under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark.
