Global Mental Health (GMH) Research Fellowship: Interventions that make a difference
Description
Our T32 GMH Implementation Science (IS) Fellowship aims to train the next generation of GMH IS scientists. Fellows will be trained to conduct research on implementing and sustainably scaling up evidence-based interventions with policy impact to reduce mental health disparities, decrease social determinants of health driving these disparities, and achieve equity in partnership with low and middle-income countries (LMICs) and low-resource settings in the US.
The Program has a two-fold focus:
Focus 1: Deployment-focused intervention research.
We will train Fellows to develop interventions that are ready to be deployed in resource-poor areas. Cross-cultural and contextual adaptation of evidence-based interventions; local community collaboration, including patients, relatives, advocates, providers, administrators, and policymakers to directly address prevention, recognition, assessment, and treatment (psychopharmacological and psychosocial); and identification of social determinants of health driving mental health disparities among underserved populations will be followed by field testing.
Focus 2: Intervention dissemination, implementation, services scale-up, and policy research to address MH disparities and associated social determinants of health.
To bridge the gap between evidence-based clinical research and everyday practice in existing systems of care. Fellows will learn to determine how mental health disorder prevention, assessment, and treatment interventions can be implemented for sustainable scale-up in low-resource US and LMIC settings to decrease disparities and improve social determinants of health among underserved populations.
Application Process
All materials must be uploaded into the application portal: https://educationportal.nyspi.org/
The application includes (and you should have ready to upload):
- Curriculum Vitae: Please include an updated version of your CV as part of this application.
- Cover Letter
- Up to 3 peer reviewed published manuscripts by applicant
- Please provide a brief (1-3 page) summary detailing:
- Your interest(s) and/or experience(s) in low-resource areas of the U.S. and/or global mental health research
- The research question(s) you are interested in addressing
- Additional training you hope to attain
- Country or countries, including the US, with which you are interested in developing or continuing partnerships during your research career
Contact
If you have any questions or concerns feel free to contact:
Barbara Camara
New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University
1051 Riverside Drive
New York, NY. 10032
email: Barbara.Camara@nyspi.columbia.edu