09| Climate Change and Mental Health | With Dr Benedict Weobong
From Climate Afya: The Climate and Health Podcast · 00:40:50
Show by Ann Ngengere
Depression and mental health conditions are a leading cause of disability globally. Yet we don’t talk enough about how climate change affects mental health. This World Mental Health Day, Ann spoke to Dr Benedict Weobong, a global mental health epidemiologist at York University, about this often overlooked aspect of the climate crisis.Dr. Benedict Weobong has degrees in psychology and mental health epidemiology from Universities of Ghana and London. As a global mental health epidemiologist and academic, his research portfolio has been informed by the principles of Global Mental Health along six strands: understanding and addressing the social determinants of mental health; developing and evaluating psychological treatments; implementation research in routine primary health care settings; school-based health and wellbeing programs; research agenda setting; and training. His current research laboratory holds three major activities: climate change and mental health; developing measures/tools for relational wellbeing among youth; developing a step-up care intervention to treat depression and anxiety among adolescents in Ghana (https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/african-youth-in-mind); evaluating the implementation of a routine health check-up programme for adolescents; and building a critical mass of global mental health researchers through doctoral and post-doctoral training (https://amari-africa.org).This episode was recorded on 09 October 2026.SOURCES REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE:Why Africa needs to invest in mental health - https://theconversation.com/why-africa-needs-to-invest-in-mental-health-147860
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