Crucial Need to Improve Mental Health Research and Training for Human Rights Advocates

Rohini Bagrodia, Sarah Knuckey, Margaret L Satterthwaite, Ria Singh Sawhney, Adam Brown, The Lancet, (June 2018)

The authors discuss the urgent need to better understand the mental health risks faced by human rights advocates, and to increase the availability of tailored mental health resources suitable to this population.

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