Zeinab Hijazi ‘Senior Mental Health Technical Advisor’, is the global technical lead on mental health at UNICEF, based in New York Headquarters.

She provides program guidance and technical support across sectors and divisions to enhance UNICEF's multi-sectoral approach to the provision of mental health & psychosocial support for children and families in humanitarian and development settings, this includes policy, data, research, innovations & advocacy work at UNICEF headquarters, and supporting coordination across sectors of health, education, and child protection to aid UNICEF country teams and partners in designing and implementing locally relevant, comprehensive and sustainable MHPSS strategies that (1) promote safe, nurturing environments for the recovery, psychosocial well-being and protection of children; and (2) engage children, caregivers and families, community systems and service providers at all levels of the social-ecological framework.

Zeinab has over 17 years of experience supporting community based mental health and psychosocial programs globally across the Middle East and North Africa, East and South Africa, West and Central Africa, Europe, South Asia, and Latin America.