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Health Equity: Harnessing Holistic & Culturally Competent Care for Mental Health & Wellbeing

In a world where health disparities persist, advancing health equity requires requires global collaboration and actionable solutions that support individuals and transform systems. Our Health Equity Series is designed to ...equip women with the tools, knowledge, and confidence to advocate for their health and navigate healthcare systems that can often feel inaccessible, dismissive, and riddled with systemic biases. Each session in this series tackles a specific healthcare issue while offering practical tools to create tangible outcomes.

In our first session, we’re exploring the topic of Harnessing Holistic and Culturally Competent Care for Mental Health and Wellbeing in collaboration with Nivishe Foundation in Kenya. This session will feature global perspectives and highlight culturally grounded approaches from across the world. Together, we’ll dive into key topics, including:

•The Importance of Culturally Competent Care: Understand how integrating cultural awareness and sensitivity into mental health practices enhances accessibility and fosters trust within diverse communities.

•Health Promotion vs. Disease Prevention: Explore why mental health care must go beyond treating symptoms to promote holistic well-being, reframing mental health as a continuum of wellness rather than merely the absence of disease.

•Decolonizing Mental Health Care: Unpack the limitations of Western approaches that often pathologize mental health, exploring how they overlook cultural contexts and indigenous practices. We will highlight examples of community-driven and indigenous practices that have effectively reshaped mental health care models, offering inspiration for equitable care approaches worldwide.

Join us in reimagining mental health care to be inclusive, culturally resonant, and centered on fostering holistic well-being.Show More
Health Equity: Harnessing Holistic & Culturally Competent Care for Mental Health & Wellbeing
Health Equity: Harnessing Holistic & Culturally Competent Care for Mental Health & Wellbeing
Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace: Toxic Workplaces, Leadership and Mental Health
Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace: Toxic Workplaces, Leadership and Mental Health
Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace: Decolonising Feminism and Gender Equality
Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace: Decolonising Feminism and Gender Equality
Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace: Navigating the Shifting Tides—What’s Next?
Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace: Navigating the Shifting Tides—What’s Next?
Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace: Is DEI dead? Rationale For and Against
Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace: Is DEI dead? Rationale For and Against
Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace: Disability Inclusion
Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace: Disability Inclusion
Lunch & Learn: Driving Sustainability and Inclusion through Inner Development Goals
Lunch & Learn: Driving Sustainability and Inclusion through Inner Development Goals
Climate Justice: Why Intersectionality Matters
Climate Justice: Why Intersectionality Matters
Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace: Mental Health
Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace: Mental Health
Inclusive by Design: Bridging the gap between theory and practice
Inclusive by Design: Bridging the gap between theory and practice
Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace: Inclusive Communication
Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace: Inclusive Communication
Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace: Disability Inclusion
Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace: Disability Inclusion

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Chisom Udeze

Founder of Diversify, Diversify Consult, HerSpace & The Annual

Chisom is an Economist, a Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) Strategist, and a 3 times founder of impact driven companies. She has over 14 years of experience working with organizations like the European Commission, The United Nations, ExxonMobil and The Economist Group. Chisom is analytical and a data enthusiast. She is passionate about interrogating the cross-sectoral relationship between society’s inhabitants, resources, production, technology, distribution and output. She efficiently and effectively unlocks complex systems, interprets data, forecasts socio-economic trends and conducts research.

Having lived and worked in 7 countries across 3 continents, she is highly adaptable to different circumstances and people, and thrives in uncertain environments.

As the founder of Diversify and Diversify Consult, Chisom and her team work with companies, institutions, governments and civil society to develop sustainable DEIB strategies and embed measurable diversity and inclusion initiatives in the workplace and society. In addition, in 2022, Diversify launched the Diversify Nordics Summit, the largest conference in the Nordics that gathers cross-sectoral stakeholders to amplify DEIB in the Nordics and beyond.

In 2020, she founded HerSpace, a diverse and inclusive co-creation community for all genders, with particular focus on women and non-binary people. In 2022, HerSpace launched HerTech, Women in Tech incubator, for women-led companies, with a focus on the inclusion of diverse founders. 

Chisom is a thought-leader in DEIB and a passionate advocate for mental health and wellness. She writes often on DEIB and justice related topics, some of her work is published on Forbes.