In collaboration with our partners, the ICHAD team continues to bring in new funding. First, the team is pleased to announce that we were recently awarded the “Training LEADers to Accelerate Global Mental Health Disparities Research” (LEAD) T37. LEAD is a NIMHD-funded training grant that is designed for pre-doctoral students and postdoctoral trainees from underrepresented groups in the United States, committed to conducting health disparities research, with a specific focus on global mental health prevention, intervention, services, and implementation research within resource-constrained settings. Co-led by ICHAD Director Dr. Fred Ssewamala and Dr. Patricia Cavazos-Rehg, an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Washington University School of Medicine, this summer program will equip trainees with foundational global research skills and knowledge through experiential learning, mentoring, “hands-on” immersion in domestic and international mental health studies, individualized consultation, feedback, goal setting and monitoring and web-based support across time. Recruitment for the first cohort of students will begin this fall.
Second, ICHAD received a supplement for our Suubi4Her study that will qualitatively examine participants’ experiences with the intervention and explore multi-level factors that may have impacted participants’ observable behaviors and decision-making in regards to savings, mental health, and sexual risk-taking. The team will also interview the multiple family group facilitators and school head teachers in treatment schools to examine factors that may influence system-level sustainability. The supplement will be led by ICHAD Co-Director, Dr. Ozge Sensoy Bahar.
