Muthoni Mathai, PhD

Muthoni Mathai, PhD

SMART Africa Co-Investigator, Psychiatrist and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Nairobi

Dr. Muthoni has been involved in multiple community-based mental health research projects as well as HIV/AIDS projects with a mental health component. She is currently the PI of the MEPI-Linked Project “Research capacity building in Mental Health for Better Health Outcomes” funded by NIMH. She focuses on building mental health research capacity among faculty in addition to Masters and PhD students at the College of Health Science (CHS) in three thematic areas: Substance use disorders and HIV/AIDS, maternal depression and child health outcomes, and psycho-trauma and gender-based violence.