Mumbai 21 April 2020: There will be Instagram Live session of  Deepika Padukone, Founder, The Live Love Laugh Foundation with Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organisation on 23rd April at 7.30 pm IST. The discussion will be around the importance of mental health during the #COVID19 pandemic and lessons that we can learn for the future.

The Live Love Laugh Foundation founded by actress Deepika Padukone which works on mental health aims to provide hope to every person experiencing stress anxiety and depression and has undertaken work in the following areas: Awareness programmes in schools covering over 1,50,000 adolescents and 16000 teachers across eleven cities in India; Funding free psychiatric treatment in low-income communities; Collaborative partnerships to run Continuing Medical Education programmes in Common Mental Disorders for General Practitioners;  Nationwide public awareness campaigns to destigmatize mental illness;  An annual lecture series featuring some of the world’s foremost thinkers and achievers and research.

In 2016, the award-winning Dobara Poocho (“Ask Again”) campaign undertaken by the foundation received in excess of 560 million total impressions across TV, print and digital mediums. The #NotAshamed campaign in 2018 featured original narratives encouraging other survivors to share their story with the world and garnered more than 100 million impressions across platforms. In October this year, TLLLF was named the 2019 recipient of the prestigious Dr Guislain “Breaking the Chains of Stigma” Award. The global award, which is an initiative of the Dr Guislain Museum in Ghent, Belgium and Janssen Research and Development, LLC honors TLLLF’s efforts to change the dialogue around mental illness in India.

Link to attend the session – https://www.instagram.com/deepikapadukone/?hl=en

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