
Melanie Amna Abas
@melanieabas
Prof of Global Mental Health, Director King's Global Health Institute. Tweeting on depression, Global Health, workforce diversity, HIV. Views are my own
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"Lifting the funding freeze immediately is imperative to prevent further backsliding of progress towards ending the global HIV epidemicāprogress that would not have been possible without #PEPFAR's 27 years of leadership." View new Journal of the IAS field notes: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10ā¦


Do join us to hear about and celebrate #African Mental Health Research with Dixon Chibanda Friendship Bench Tatiana T Salisbury Ricardo Twumasi jermaine dambi King's Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine Centre for GMH


Panel aired importance of #MentalHealth globally, & reciprocal capacity building between African countries & UK. Audience challenged researchers to acknowledge African perspective on mental health - from idioms of distress to research methods ṢẹĢyįŗ¹ AbĆmbį»ĢlĆ” Dixon Chibanda




'Teenagers who go to bed early and sleep longer have sharper brains, study finds' Guardian Science article covering our new study from Cambridge University and Fudan University theguardian.com/science/2025/aā¦

In New York with Prof Anne Pollock speaking to ā¦King's College Londonā© #alumni about global health and ā¦King's College London Internationalā© - ā¦Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscienceā© ā¦King's Social Science & Public Policyā© ā¦David Martinelli // Business Mentorā©

Honoured to have opportunity to deliver the opening plenary of AIDSImpact Conference, highlighting the inequities affecting women with HIV & actions needed to address it. Thanks to all the women with HIV who shared their insights, particularly from 4M Project!






Prof āFunmi Olonisakin welcoming the President of the Republic of Kenya to ā¦King's College Londonā© to sign new Kenya UK Health Alliance- opening door to partnerships in education, pharmaceuticals and research. Proud day for UK global health ā¦Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscienceā©

Honoured to have the President of the Republic of #Kenya visiting ā¦King's College Londonā© to sign the Kenya UK Health Alliance- so much mutual learning and solidarity over health education, pharmaceuticals and research #globalhealth #universalhealthcoverage

Excited to be at the worlds premiere #HIV science conference, with Tarisai Bere presenting a late breaker abstract on #mentalhealth as key to the HIV response thanks to ā¦Dixon Chibandaā© ā¦Walter Mangeziā© Steve Safrenā© ā¦Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscienceā© ā¦



Gates foundation announced today they will fund AI in supporting self care - and will fund research in Africa which is contextualised to realities of systems and costs - IAS - the International AIDS Society