"The Lucky One." Hanif Mouehla Curative Treatment and Its Effect on Mental Health: A Young Man's Perspective

SESSION DESCRIPTION

What happens when the disease is gone, but the journey remains? In this interactive discussion, Harvard student, advocate, and stem cell transplant recipient Hanif Mouehla explores the often unspoken emotional reality of life after the cure. Together, participants will examine questions of identity, belonging, survivor's guilt, community, and healing while engaging in an honest conversation about what it means to carry the memories, scars, and life lessons of sickle cell disease long after the body has been transformed. This session invites warriors, caregivers, and allies to reflect on whether healing is an endpoint or the beginning of a new journey altogether.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Hanif Mouehla is a sickle cell survivor, advocate, and Harvard student who occupies a unique and complex space within the chronic illness community. Diagnosed with sickle cell disease at birth, Hanif spent his formative years navigating the severe pain and unpredictable realities of being…