Yasser Abu-Jamei

Yasser Abu-Jamei is a Palestinian psychiatrist who has been heading the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme (GCMHP) since 2014. GCMHP was established in 1990 as an independent organization providing mental health services to Gaza’s residents and training to mental health professionals by Palestine’s pioneering psychiatrist, the late great Eyad al-Sarraj.

Dr. Abu-Jamei is a member of the Task Force that developed Palestine's National Mental Health Strategy 2015-2019. He co-led the Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Technical Working Group in Gaza and, in 2020, co-founded the Palestine Global Mental Health Network. His interests include capacity building, neuropsychiatry, and advocacy. Besides his research and authorship or co-authorship of about twenty academic papers, he has been certified as a Trainer of Trainers in supervision care for caregivers by the Free University of Berlin.

Dr. Abu-Jamei has received several honors, including the Best Alumnus Award from the Said Foundation (2015), the Alumnus of the Year award from the University of Birmingham (2016), and the Community Resilience Award from the Rebuilding Alliance (2021).

Since October 7, 2023, Dr. Abu-Jamei has fought to maintain GCMHP's capacity to offer mental health interventions to massively traumatized children and adults in shelters and other displacement zones, amid terrible personal losses of homes, facilities, relatives, and staff.