#GoodSynergy - Natasha Muller
The #GoodSynergy podcast catches up with Natasha Muller, mental health activist and Founder/CEO of NM Impact.
Natasha, a passionate changemaker, shares her lived experience with mental health and how she has transitioned this into working with others across the board in building a global mental health ecosystem.
Strategic by nature, she leverages her philanthropic and impact investing interests, along with multiple other skills and talents, to create the change that she wishes to see through collaboration from the ground up through to working alongside global partners.
In her own words, she shares her journey and approach from personal insights, some eye watering stats and why mental health is an issue that is everyone's business.
This is how to keep in touch with Natasha Muller and her campaigning:
NM Impact - Natasha’s personal website
On LinkedIn @Natasha_Muller | on Instagram @Natasha_Muller_Impact
Mental health organisations that Natasha supports:
Empower: This initiative is intended to massively scale up access to evidence-based psychosocial therapies for mood, anxiety, trauma related and substance use problems and for child and adolescent mental health problems. Most people do not have access to these therapies because of a shortage of trained providers. Empower aims to deploy a digital platform to rapidly train up the world’s mental health care workforce. Through the platform, non-specialist health workers will be able to learn, master, and deliver evidence-based psychological treatments for a wide range of mental health and substance use problems via a digital learning environment.
United for Global Mental Health: A catalyst organization that brings ambition to global advocacy, innovation to financing and a voice to campaigning.
Speak Your Mind campaign: This is the campaign arm of United for Global Mental Health. People from 15 countries around the world have come together pledging to secure meaningful and urgent action from their governments, demanding they invest in mental health.
Alpha Health: A mental health tech platform, underwritten by Telefonica. It’s completely evidence-based and currently has four products that cover the care continuum and integrate into a single service experience.
Further Resources
This Inside Philanthropy article written by Ken Zimmerman ‘Mental Health Needs to Be a Top Priority for Philanthropy. Here's Why’ is closely aligned to Natasha’s own thinking and approach.
The United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)s and SDG3 Good Health & Well-being
The World Health Organisation’s Comprehensive Mental Health Action Plan
Philanthropy Impact article (Issue 24 | Autumn 2020, pp6-9) A Tale of Two Champions: From Lived Experience to Mental Health Warriors