This panel presentation will cover the How’s, What’s and Why’s of the collaboration with BIPAI in Eswatini (formerly known as Swaziland) and challenges faced in implementing an evidence-based strategy for capacity building in addressing mental health issues in a low resource country. The next steps of this initiative and opportunities for other areas of capacity building for improving health in Eswatini will be addressed.

Panelists include: Susan Calloway, PhD, FNP-BC, PMHNP-BC, FAANP, Professor & Program Director PMHNP program SON; Dr. Michael Gomez, Clinical Psychologist, Associate Professor, Center for Superheroes; Emily Merrill, PhD, FNP-BC, CNE, FAANP, Professor, Associate Dean, Nurse Practitioner Studies SON; Stacy Hobbs, RN, BSN, PMHNP student; & Lindsay Urban, RN, BSN, PMHNP student.