GlobalMentalHealth@Harvard Initiative @GMHatHarvard

Aspiring to elevate the profile of mental health as a global public good & a universal human right. |F,L,RT≠Endorse| IG: @GMHatHarvard

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Joined September 2018
Check out the Lancet's new series on child and adolescent mental health in the Western Pacific region! thelancet.com/series-do/west…

Child and adolescent mental health in the Western Pacific region

Child and adolescent mental health is an area of growing concern in the Western Pacific region. The Series published in The Lancet Regional Health – Western Pacific provides an overview of policies...

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Check out Richard Stephen Mpango and company's recent publication, "Prevalence, factors associated, and negative outcomes of “probable PTSD” among HIV infected children and adolescents: CHAKA study 2014–2017" online.ucpress.edu/agh/artic…

Prevalence, factors associated, and negative outcomes of “probable PTSD” among HIV infected...

The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of “probable post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD),” factors associated with probable PTSD, and its relationship with clinical and behavioral...

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Check out Divyangana Rakesh and company's recent publication, "Macroeconomic income inequality, brain structure and function, and mental health" nature.com/articles/s44220-0…

Macroeconomic income inequality, brain structure and function, and mental health

Nature Mental Health - Rakesh et al. used data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development cohort study to evaluate the relationship between state-level income inequality, brain structure and...

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Join us this Wednesday, October 8th for a special event in honor of World Mental Health Day! harvardartmuseums.org/calend…

Film Screening and Panel Discussion: Loving Vincent | Harvard Art Museums

*This event does not require registration; see further details below.* In recognition of Mental Illness Awareness Week, join us for a screening of _Loving Vinc...

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Check out the NCD Countdown 2030's recent publication, "Benchmarking progress in non-communicable diseases: a global analysis of cause-specific mortality from 2001 to 2019" thelancet.com/journals/lance…

Benchmarking progress in non-communicable diseases: a global analysis of cause-specific mortality...

From 2010 to 2019, NCD mortality declined in four of every five countries in the world. These improvements were not as large as the preceding decade for most countries, driven by smaller declines in...

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Check out Parisa Kaliush and company's recent publication, "Behavioral Activation for Perinatal Suicide IdeationSecondary Analysis of a Noninferiority Randomized Clinical Trial" jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…

Behavioral Activation for Perinatal Suicide Ideation

This secondary analysis of a noninferiority randomized clinical trial determines whether the likelihood of endorsing suicide ideation changed during a brief behavioral activation psychotherapy for...

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Check out Maya Zaidan and company's recent publication, "Bridges to treatment satisfaction: the roles of trauma, social support, race and ethnicity among perinatal women receiving behavioural activation therapy" bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.co…

Bridges to treatment satisfaction: the roles of trauma, social support, race and ethnicity among...

Background High treatment satisfaction is related to improved treatment adherence and outcomes in psychotherapy research. Satisfaction with psychotherapy treatment among racially and ethnically...

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Check out Ravindra Agrawal and company's recent publication, "Scaling up the task-sharing of an evidence-based psychological treatment for depression in rural India: an implementation study" bmcprimcare.biomedcentral.co…

Scaling up the task-sharing of an evidence-based psychological treatment for depression in rural...

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Check out Ravindra Agrawal and company's recent publication, "A Conversational Agent (PracticePal) to Support the Delivery of a Brief Behavioral Activation Treatment for Depression in Rural India: Development and Pilot-Testing Study" drive.google.com/file/d/1J8x…

formative-2025-1-e73563_A Conversational Agent (PracticePal) to Support the Delivery of a Brief...

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Check out Young Lives's recent publication, "Navigating Crises and Building Resilience: Supporting Young People’s Mental Health Across the Life Course" younglives.org.uk/publicatio…
Check out Bianca Moffett's publication, "A Behavioral Activation Digital Intervention Incorporating Gamification and Peer Mentor Support for Adolescent Depression in Rural South Africa: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial (the DoBAt Study)" sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
Check out Richard Mpango and company's recent publication, "Factors associated with non-adherence to clinic visits among patients with severe mental illness enrolled in the SMILE study in Uganda" bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.…

Factors associated with non-adherence to clinic visits among patients with severe mental illness...

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Check out @JuliaRzPz and company's recent publication, "Optimizing treatment for depression in primary care using psychotherapy versus antidepressant medication in a low-resource setting: protocol for the OptimizeD randomized controlled trial" link.springer.com/article/10…

Optimizing treatment for depression in primary care using psychotherapy versus antidepressant...

Background Psychotherapy and antidepressant medications are first-line treatments for depression, and they both have significant treatment effects on average. However, treatment response varies...

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Check out Annelieke Roest and company's recent publication, "Comorbidity and temporal associations between mental disorders among college students in the world mental health international college student initiative" sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Check out The Lancet's recent publication, "Social prescribing: bringing community back to health?" thelancet.com/journals/lance…

Social prescribing: bringing community back to health?

Health is a state of physical, mental, and social wellbeing. Yet social factors, such as loneliness, debt, and stress, have long been neglected in modern biomedical, disease-focused systems. There...

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Check out and company's recent publication, Characterizing modifications to the mhGAP intervention guide during implementation in low- and middle-income countries... ijmhs.biomedcentral.com/arti…

Characterizing modifications to the mental health gap action programme (mhGAP) intervention guide...

Background Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) allocate a disproportionately small fraction of their healthcare budgets to mental health, leading to a treatment gap exceeding 75%. To address...

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Check out Anushka Patel and Isaac Lara's recent publication, "Peers as humans in the loop in digital mental health" nature.com/articles/s41591-0…
Check out Dhanya Parameshwaran and company's recent publication, "Resting state EEG classifies developmental status in three-year-old children" sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Check out Sarah Taha and company's recent publication, "Scaling Up Task‐Shared Depression Care in Texas: Evaluating the Preliminary Effectiveness and Acceptability of a Digital Program for Training Non-Specialist Providers" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

Scaling Up Task‐Shared Depression Care in Texas: Evaluating the Preliminary Effectiveness and...

Objective Digital technologies hold promise for building capacity of non-specialist providers to scale-up access to depression care. This study evaluated the preliminary effectiveness and acceptabi...

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Check out Rosco Kasujja and company's recent publicatoin, "Six-Week Problem Area–Concordant vs 8-Week Problem Area–Discordant Group Interpersonal PsychotherapyA Randomized Clinical Trial" jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…

Problem Area–Concordant vs Problem Area–Discordant Group Psychotherapy

This noninferiority randomized clinical trial, conducted in Uganda, compares 8-week problem area–discordant group-based interpersonal psychotherapy for depression with a 6-week version that groups...

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