The City Mental Health Alliance Hong Kong Expert Series is a collection of interviews with professionals focused on different aspects of workplace mental health and wellbeing.
Please note: The views expressed in CMHA HK's Expert Series are the expert's own and their appearance in the series does not imply endorsement of them or any entity they represent.
January 2021
Jo Loughran is the Director of Time to Change – Jo has over a decade of involvement in the UK charity sector, specialising in behaviour change campaigns, mental health anti-stigma programmes, and lived experience leadership, particularly in relation to young people. She leads all of Time to Change’s work in England.
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December 2020
Carmen Yau is a registered social worker; chairperson of the Association of Women with Disabilities Hong Kong and a committee member at the Equal Opportunities Commission. She devotes her time and energy to enhancing social and workplace inclusion for the disabled.
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November 2020
Aaron Stadlin-Robbie is the founder of Talking Mental , a website which features a podcast series of frank discussions with specialists about different aspects of mental health. He also runs the 'Walk the Talk' initiative and is an ambassador for Movember.
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October 2020
Sakshi Kumar , Mental Health professional and Programme & Content Manager at Community Business.
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September 2020
Dr Paul Wong , D.Psyc. (Clinical) and Associate Professor at HKU . Dr Wong is an expert in suicide prevention and mental heath promotion. He shares his thoughts and candid opinions on the topic of suicide and suicide prevention in Hong Kong.
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August 2020
Dr Charles Brantly , a GP at Central Health Medical Practice shares his observations and opinions on the topic of mental health and how best to support people as they transition back to their workplaces and routines.
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May 2020
Dr Alexander Chan is a back pain physiotherapist and works at PhysioCentral.
He created a three-part work from home mini series for us which you can view on the below links:
1) How to set up your Workstation
May 2020
This clip features Kate Bridle who is a sleep physiologist and founder of Sleep HQ . Kate shares her Top Tips to keep Sleep on Track.
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April 2020
Dr Sharmeen Shroff , Owner and Clinical Psychologist at Central Minds , Hong Kong builds on a Harvard Business Review article titled "That Discomfort You're Feeling Is Grief".
Her clip is titled "If We Can Name It - We Can Manage It".
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