Yale Talk, a monthly podcast hosted by Yale University President Peter Salovey, focused a recent episode on the HAPPINESS Project which aims to increase access to mental health services in Nigeria.

You can listen to the podcast by visiting the Yale Talk website.

During a January 2020 visit to Lagos, Nigeria, President Salovey met with officials to to finalize plans to expand the HAPPINESS Project (Health Action for Psychiatric Problems In Nigeria including Epilepsy and Substances), an ongoing Yale partnership with the government of Imo State, Nigeria – read more about the project and the document signing event which took place January 17th 2020.  

For the podcast, President Salovey gathered with HAPPINESS Project collborators, Dr. Theddeus Iheanacho and Dr. Charles Dike from the Yale School of Medicine, along with Yale Office of International Affairs’ Eddie Mandhry to discuss the partnerships Yale is developing through this project as part of the Yale Africa Initiative.