Identifying research priorities for psychosocial support programs in humanitarian settings

Summary

Worldwide, over 134 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance due to conflicts and disasters, with an estimated cost of over $25 billion US dollars (UNOCHA, 2018). Many of these circumstances bring a heavy toll on mental health (MH) and psychosocial wellbeing, with impacts on the individual, family, and community at large. Given this impact, mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) programming is increasingly considered a core component of humanitarian response requiring multi-sectoral collaboration and a tiered framework of intervention (IASC, 2017).