Carla Satie Kamitsuji

Dr Carla Kamitsuji is a medical doctor specialized in psychiatry. Between 2007 and 2009, she worked for MSF in Uganda, Iraq and the Occupied Palestinian Territories (West Bank). In 2010, Carla joined the ICRC and worked in Russia (Chechnya) until 2011. Between 2011 and 2019, she worked in the Brazilian public health sector as a psychiatrist in primary health care, psychosocial care centers, a mobile mental health unit, a psychiatric emergency room and the Transcultural Outpatient Clinic of the Institute of Psychiatry at Hospital das Clínicas, School of Medicine, University of São Paulo. Since June 2020, Carla has been working for the ICRC as a Mental Health and Psychosocial Support HQ Adviser.

Apr 22nd 2024

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University of Copenhagen

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Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) – a group of conditions that include cardiovascular diseases, cancers, diabetes, chronic respiratory diseases and mental ill-health– cause nearly 41 million deaths each year, representing almost 72 percent of all deaths globally. Today, NCDs are not only a problem of high-income countries as more than three-quarters [...]

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Noncommunicable Diseases