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Dixon Chibanda - Psychiatrist & Director of the African Mental Health Initiative; Founder & CEO of Friendship Bench Zimbabwe

Dixon Chibanda

Profile updated January 7, 2026
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About Dixon Chibanda

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Talk is cheap - What disasters reveal about mental-health care ...

Dixon Chibanda, a psychiatrist in Zimbabwe, showed that lay people can be trained in a couple of weeks to do some parts of the job. In 2005 in Zimbabwe's ...

Erasing The Stigma : TED Radio Hour : NPR

TED Radio Hour · Dixon Chibanda: How Can A Team Of Grandmothers Make Therapy Accessible To All? by NPR/TED Staff ...

Who Are the Ordinary Heroes of 2019? - The New York Times

The friendship bench was invented in 2006 by a psychiatrist, Dixon Chibanda, after a patient committed suicide. He had asked her to come see him at Harare ...

The Friendship Bench is starting a mental health revolution

Dixon Chibanda spent more time with Erica than most of his other patients. It wasn't that her problems were more serious than others'–she was just one of ...

Dixon Chibanda: How Can A Team Of Grandmothers Make Therapy ...

In Zimbabwe, like many countries, there are few options for mental health care. So psychiatrist Dixon Chibanda came up with an unexpected solution: therapy ...

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