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List of Projects and Partnerships
The Global and Population Mental Health at Mailman program addresses pressing public health issues. Below you can browse our projects in Africa, South America, Asia, Europe, and North America.
Global
A Delphi study of youth global mental health researchers to (1) Understand the perceived priorities and defining elements of what youth-focused global mental health entails. (2) Identify core competencies, organizations, and resources indicative of youth-focused global mental health. (3) Identify gaps and polarities across definitions of those conducting youth-focused global mental health. (4) Propose a consensus definition, list of priorities, and key resources and organizations of youth-focused global mental health.
Africa
This pilot trial evaluates the effectiveness, feasibility, and acceptability of a brief intervention to mitigate suicide risk in adolescents attending primary care.
Collaborators: Ministry of Health, Mozambique
This is a long-running NIDA-funded cohort study in South Africa between Columbia University and University of KwaZulu-Natal The cohort originally included children/adolescents and their caregivers. There have been 4 waves of data collection.
Collaborators: University of KwaZulu-Natal – The Centre for Rural Health, The Valley Trust, Boston University
The primary objective of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of ImpACT+ (Improving AIDS Care after Trauma+), an individual-level intervention based on theories of stress and coping, on clinical outcomes among HIV-infected women with sexual trauma.
Collaborators: University of Cape Town
Arts education curriculum design; pilot testing; partnership strengthening
Collaborators: BACO Foundation, HAF Uganda, ArtsIgnite, Artolution, AfriChild Center at Makerere University
Columbia MSPH Collaborators: Mark Canavera, Juliana Bol, Yana Mayevskaya
Columbia Teachers College Collaborators: Mary Mendenhall, Kemigish Richardson
Collaborators: University of KwaZulu-Natal
This study compares, using exome sequencing and genome-wide copy number variant analysis, mutations in individuals with and without schizophrenia.
Collaborators: Dan Stein; Mary Claire King University of Cape Town, University of Washington
A study involving qualitative in-depth interviews with mental health and humanitarian practitioners on mental health and psychosocial problems, access to mental health services, etc. for displaced populations in Ethiopia.
Collaborators: Ethiopian Public Health Institute
Columbia Collaborator: Tsion Firew
This research aims to evaluate a stepped care system (screening, brief intervention, and referral to CETA for treatment) to address alcohol and other drug use problems among refugees and the host community in Zambia.
Collaborators: Women in Law and Development in Africa (WiLDAF); CARE Zambia; University of Zambia; United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR); United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC); Zambia Ministry of Health
Collaborators: Ministry of Health, Mozambique
Development of implementation strategy and evaluation of the effectiveness, feasibility, and acceptability of Group Interpersonal Therapy for Depressed Adolescents delivered by primary care providers
Data from a completed randomized feasibility trial (including formative research, intervention development study, feasibility trial (n=311), and qualitative process evaluation)
Collaborators: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; University of Copenhagen; Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences; International Rescue Committee; United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Feasibility trial of combining Self-Help Plus and the WHO ASSIST-linked brief intervention to reduce alcohol use and psychological distress among South Sudanese refugee men in Rhino Settlement
Collaborators: University of Copenhagen; HealthRight International; World Health Organization
South America
Adapt and pilot test a brief 3-session version of IPT for remote delivery by and for displaced Venezuelans in Peru
Collaborators: HIAS; United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Columbia MSPH collaborators: Alejandra Paniagua-Avila
Columbia Teachers College collaborators: Lena Verdeli, Bryan Cheng, Erin Young
Collaborators: Chilean Ministry of Health
These projects aim to design and evaluate strategies for increasing access to mental health and psychosocial support for refugees, migrants, and host community members in Colombia.
Collaborators: HIAS; Pontificia Universidad Javeriana; Universidad del Norte; The New School for Social Research; United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Designing and piloting strategies to integrate economic and MHPSS services for refugees and migrants in Ecuador
Collaborators: HIAS; United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR); Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO)
Collaborators: Chilean Ministry of Health
Clustered RCT in Chile to adapt, scale up, and test effectiveness of the OnTrackNY model of early intervention for First Episode Psychosis.
Collaborators: University of Chile
Asia
Collaborators: Shanghai Mental Health Center
Europe
Pilot RCT of Critical Time Intervention with peer support component - for people with severe mental disorders being discharged from psychiatric hospitals
Collaborators: José Almeida – President, Benedetto Saraceno, Manuela Silva University of Lisbon, Lisbon Institute of Global Mental Health
North America
Collaborators: Jalisco Institute of Mental Health
Multiple Countries
This project designed and evaluated a community-based psychosocial intervention for migrant and host community women in three diverse contexts in Ecuador and Panamá.
The COVID-19 HEalth caRe wOrkErS (HEROES) study is a large, bottom-up, South-North initiative aimed to evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of health care workers (HCWs). HEROES encompasses a wide variety of academic institutions in 19 LMICs and 8 HICs.
Collaborators: University of Chile, PAHO, WHO
This study will describe test characteristics of ethyl glucuronide (EtG) in a novel population of HIV-affected adolescents and young adults in SSA and will inform the development of an alcohol screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) system within HIV care featuring the use of EtG.
Collaborators: Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia
These studies investigate the incidence, course, and treatment of those with psychotic disorders, and involve multiple collaborations throughout the region.
One of five regional hubs to improve mental health care and build capacity in low- and middle- income countries
Unhealthy alcohol use represents an unaddressed barrier to achieving and maintaining control of the HIV epidemic globally. In the Zambia Alabama HIV Alcohol Comorbidities Program (ZAMBAMA),we will compare the effectiveness of an alcohol brief intervention and a transdiagnostic cognitive behavioral therapy-based model that can address unhealthy alcohol use and a range of comorbid mental health problems to improve HIV and alcohol outcomes among low-resource and underserved patients with HIV and unhealthy alcohol use in sub-Saharan Africa and the Southern United States. (P01 project)
Collaborators: University of Alabama Birmingham, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia, University of Zambia, Zambia Ministry of Health