Moussa Ba, a national from Senegal totals 39 years of experience in the field of Mental
health. He is the Chief of the Critical Incident Stress Management Unit (CISMU) of the
Department of Safety and Security (DSS), since the creation of the Department in 2005.
CISMU is responsible for the Prevention, Management of Stress and Critical Incidents
Stress UN system wide. As such, the Unit chief is Chair of the UN Inter-Agency Critical
Incident Stress Working Group (CISWG) and the coordinator of all Critical Incident
Stress Management (CISM) activities for the United Nations system during crises,
providing a unified response and coordinated operation