Tatiana Taylor Salisbury

Reader in Global Mental Health;

Co-Director, Centre for Global Mental Health, King's College London

Co-production; adolescent perinatal mental health; quality of care; youth engagement

  • London, UK
Crick Lund

Co-Director, Centre for Global Mental Health, Health Service and Population Research Department, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London

Mental health policy; mental health services; prevention interventions in adolescent mental health; social determinants of mental health

  • Cape Town, South Africa
Olivia Biermann

Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden; Policy Consultant, United for Global Mental Health, UK

Health systems and policy; knowledge translation and evidence-informed policy-making; implementation research; qualitative research; mental health and well-being

  • Malmö, Sweden
Zara Trafford

Senior Researcher, Institute for Life Course Health Research, Department of Global Health, Stellenbosch University

Disability and health inequities; childhood, adolescent, and youth health; qualitative and interdisciplinary research; global health in LMICs; public engagement

  • Cape Town, South Africa
Sachin Shinde

Research Associate, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, USA

Adolescent health and nutrition, maternal and child nutrition; family planning–nutrition integration, implementation research, quantitative and qualitative methods; community engagement, and policy analysis

  • Boston, USA
Xanthe Hunt

Mental Health Lead and Member of Faculty, Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI)

Adolescent mental health; AI in mental health; measurement; disability

  • Durban, South Africa

Arvin Bhana

Centre for Research in Health Systems, School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal

Primary research on health systems implementation; research on integration of mental health into primary care with a focus on multiple long-term chronic illnesses; severe child and adolescent mental health; adolescent HIV/AIDS and mental health; severe mental Illness; substance use

  • Durban, South Africa

Brandon Kohrt

Director, Center for Global Mental Health Equity, George Washington University

Measurement of adolescent mental health; training and competency of non-specialists mental health care providers; stigma reduction; prevention of adolescent mental health conditions 

  • Washington, DC, USA
Yeukai Chideya

Researcher, Institute for Life Course Health Research, Department of Global Health, Stellenbosch University

Child and adolescent mental health; trauma, violence, and injuries; forced displacement; psychosocial support; community-based mental health interventions; evidence-informed policy

  • Cape Town, South Africa
Alice Morgan

Global Health Fellow, Murdoch Children's Research Institute; Honorary positions at Royal Children's Hospital and University of Melbourne

Global adolescent mental health; caregiver mental health 

  • Melbourne, Australia
Christine Musyimi

Global Mental Health Researcher

Stigma, homelessness, and violence; climate change; adolescent mental health, including dementia

  • Nairobi, Kenya
Alexander Tsai

Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School; Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Global mental health; HIV; psychiatric epidemiology; social epidemiology

  • Boston, USA
Stefani Du Toit

Senior Researcher, Institute for Life Course Health Research, Department of Global Health, Stellenbosch University

Adolescent mental health and maternal mental health

  • Cape Town, South Africa
Nagendra Luitel

Research Advisor, Transcultural Psychosocial Organization Nepal (TPO Nepal)

Mental health research, focusing on developing, adapting, and evaluating evidence-based mental health interventions in Nepal and other low- and middle-income countries (LMICs)

  • Nepal, India
Lorraine Sherr

Professor of Clinical and Health Psychology, University College London

Mental health interventions; crisis; orphanhood; HIV

  • London, UK
Cassandra Zeta Carels

Researcher, Institute for Life Course Health Research, Department of Global Health, Stellenbosch University

Adolescent and emerging adult mental health and risky behaviour; sports for development; young people living with HIV

  • Cape Town, South Africa
Tamsen Rochat

Professor of Psychology, Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom

Clinical psychology; mental health and cognition measurement; intervention design; lived experience co-design; longitudinal cohorts and clinical trials; family mental health and well-being; scalable relationship-centred interventions

  • Manchester, United Kingdom
Phiona Naserian Koyiet

Senior Technical Advisor Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS), Global Programming and Resources Team, World Vision International

Global MHPSS; early intervention development and evaluation; multisectoral integration; community-based support systems; scalable psychosocial programming; child, adolescent, and caregiver well-being; humanitarian and fragile contexts; policy and systems integration

  • Nairobi, Kenya
Kelly Gemmell

Researcher, Institute for Life Course Health Research, Department of Global Health, Stellenbosch University

Early childhood development; public health systems and policy; life course research

  • Cape Town, South Africa
Muthoni Mathai

Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Health

Sciences, University of Nairobi, Kenya

Depressive disorders; trauma; adolescent and maternal mental health; therapist and trainer in TF-CBT and interpersonal therapy; HIV and youth mental health interventions; clinical psychiatry; research in LMICs

  • Nairobi, Kenya