Dr. Essam Daod - د. عصام داود

11/11/2025

10 years! 🙏

05/10/2025

Painful to speak,
impossible to stay silent.
The Mental Health and Psychosocial Response to Humanitarian Crises with
and The Archewell Foundation - Prince Harry and Meghan, Duke and Duchess of Sussex. – October 10, 1:30pm, New York.

Not celebration — reflection. Humanity

11/07/2025

Just minutes ago, I stood over my children as they lay still in bed, peaceful, wrapped in blankets.

Then I saw this photo:
A father in Gaza, just like me.
Standing over his children.
Same scene. Same silence.
But one unbearable difference:
Mine are asleep.
His are dead.

This is not a conflict.
This is not collateral damage.
This is a

This is .
And this must stop. Now.

©hatem.khaled.reuters

15/06/2025

Civilians are dying — in , in , in . Every life lost is a human tragedy.
But in Gaza, where more were killed in 48 hours than in both countries combined, there's no internet, no press, no voice.
Only silence — and rubble.

14/06/2025

I don’t know if my colleague .mohamed.o.abushawish is okay or not. While the world is fixated on and , is being forgotten—bleeding, starving, besieged, and completely cut off from the world, with no internet and no communication for days. I can’t do anything, but at the very least, I can make his voice heard.

14/06/2025

24/05/2025

08/05/2025

This is not just another photo.
This is a child in — starving, holding up a picture of who she used to be.

Famine is no longer a looming threat. It’s here. It’s real. And it’s erasing childhoods before our eyes.

Thousands of children are trapped in a cycle of hunger, fear, and . No access to food. No medical care. No safe space.
Some are too weak to cry. Others stop speaking altogether. Their silence is a scream the world must not ignore.

This isn’t politics. This is

Let us see them. Let us say their names. Let us act.

27/07/2024

"I saw a rat
Giving a speech about cleanliness today
Threatening the dirt with punishment
And around him
The flies applauded!"

Ahmad Mattar

22/06/2023

Join us today for an insightful panel discussion on mental health first response!

I'm honoured to be a part of this conversation with American Psychological Association CEO Dr. Arthur C. Evans, Cynthia Bissett Germanotta the co-founder of Born This Way Foundation, and Now This producer Luria Freeman.

Tune in to the live stream at 4:50 pm ET: at.apa.org/2rl 🧠💡✨

The trauma associated with natural disasters, refugee flight, teenage bullying, or gun violence can endure for a lifetime if appropriate mental health services are not provided. Just as we don’t wait for a wound to become infected before providing treatment, so too we must act quickly to curb emot...