Lab Members
Lab Leadership Team
Vikram Patel
vikram_patel@hms.harvard.eduMental Health for All Lab Co-Director
Paul Farmer Professor and Chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Professor in the Department of Global Health and Population at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Co-founder and Member of Managing Committee, Sangath, Goa, India
Vikram Patel is the Paul Farmer Professor and Chair of Global Health and Social Medicine in the Blavatnik Institute's Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School . He co-leads the GlobalMentalHealth@Harvard initiative . His...
John Naslund
Mental Health for All Lab Co-Director
Senior Research Scientist in Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
John A. Naslund, PhD, is an Instructor in Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Naslund holds expertise in mental health epidemiology, implementation science, social disparities research, and digital mental health. His...
Laura Bond
Program Director, EMPOWER
Laura Bond, PhD, MA, is the Program Director of EMPOWER at the Mental Health for All Lab. Laura's research focuses broadly on implementation science and mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) programming in underserved communities. Laura is...
Core Lab Members
Ameena Mumthaz
Research Assistant, EMPOWER
Ameena Mumthaz, MBBS, MMSc, is a physician and global mental health researcher. She holds an MBBS from Kerala University of Health Sciences, India, and a Master of Medical Sciences in Global Health Delivery from the Department of Global Health and Social...
Carina Akemi Nakamura
Research Fellow
Carina holds a BSc and an MSc in Pharmacy from the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil, and a PhD from the Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, UK. Carina was previously a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of...
Emma Hill
Research Assistant, EMPOWER
Emma Hill is a recent graduate of Simmons University, having received her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology with a focus on child development and childhood psychopathology. She is particularly interested in the impact of early childhood experiences on later...
Isaac Lara
Research Assistant, EMPOWER
Isaac Lara (he/him) is a well-being advocate, community builder, researcher, and proud father to a seven-year-old Yorkie. He is passionate about enhancing the mental well-being of our global community through community-based models of care and fostering a...
Jill Witney Ahs
Research Fellow
Jill Witney Ahs, PhD, MMedSci, is a Research Fellow in Global Mental Health Implementation Science at Harvard Medical School and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. Jill is a mental health epidemiologist with a...
Julia Ruiz Pozuelo
Research Fellow
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Julia Ruiz Pozuelo, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Julia’s research interests lie at the intersection of psychiatry and development economics. Her work focuses on...
Karina Martínez Rozo
Research Assistant
Karina Martínez Rozo is a psychologist from Los Andes University in Bogotá, Colombia. She has experience contributing to research projects focused on youth mental health in vulnerable and armed conflict–affected settings, as well as psychosocial support...
Kathryn O'Neill
Research Manager, Mental Health for All Lab
Katy O’Neill is the Program Manager for two mental health programs at Harvard Medical School: the Mental Health For All Lab and the GlobalMentalHealth@MentalHealthForAllLab Initiative. As Program Manager of the Mental Health For All Lab, Katy oversees...
Mercedes Aguerrebere
Research Associate
Dr. Mercedes Aguerrebere is a psychiatrist and graduate of Harvard Medical School’s Master of Medical Sciences in Global Health Delivery, where she studied as a Fulbright Scholar. She has more than a decade of experience in global health and mental health...
Sydney LeSon
Research Assistant
Sydney LeSon, MPH is a Research Assistant at the Mental Health for All Lab in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine. Sydney received a Master of Public Health with a concentration in epidemiology from Brown University and a Bachelor of Arts...
Affiliate Lab Members
Anushka Patel
Assistant Professor at MGH
Dr. Anushka R. Patel is a trauma-focused clinical psychologist. She has completed three years of postdoctoral training in global mental health with a research emphasis (at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health) and a policy focus (at the WHO). She is...
Daiane Machado
Research Fellow, Harvard Medical School
Research Associate, Center for Data and Knowledge Integration for Health
Daiane Borges Machado PhD (in Epidemiology and Population Health from LSHTM https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/ in the UK) is a research fellow at Harvard Medical School and a research associate at the Center for Data and Knowledge Integration for Health – CIDACS...
Daniel Hofmann
Research Fellow
Daniel Hofmann is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Mental Health for All Lab in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. In his research, he focuses on how trauma sequelae symptoms develop over time in East...
Flávia Alves
Research Fellow
Flávia Jôse Oliveira Alves, PhD (in Epidemiology and Public Health from Collective Health Institute of the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil) is a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School and the Center for Data and Knowledge Integration for Health...
Giuseppe James Raviola
Director of Program in Global Mental Health and Social Change at Harvard Medical School
Director of Mental Health for Partners In Health
Assistant Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School
Giuseppe Raviola, MD MPH, is Director of the Program in Global Mental Health and Social Change (PGMHSC) at Harvard Medical School, Associate Director of the Chester M. Pierce, MD Division of Global Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), and...
Gloria Pedersen
Director, MHPSS, Implementation Strategy
Research & Partnership Director, MHPSS
Implementation Strategy, Partners in Health
Gloria A. Pedersen, DrPH, MSc is dedicated to using collaborative efforts for identifying, implementing, and testing methods for strengthening the quality and safety of mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) delivery within task-sharing and pre...
Nida Zahid
Research Fellow
Dr. Nida Zahid is a postdoctoral research fellow who holds an MBBS, a Master’s in Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and a PhD in Medical Sciences from Uppsala University, Sweden. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health. Dr. Zahid serves...
Sandersan Onie
Research Fellow
Dr Sandersan Onie is a research fellow at the Mental Health for All Lab. He is interested in suicide prevention at scale and is currently leading the Indonesian National Suicide Prevention Strategy, which led to a change in Indonesian health legislation...
Shekhar Saxena
Professor of the Practice of Global Mental Health at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
Shekhar Saxena is Professor of the Practice of Global Mental Health at the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. A psychiatrist by training, he was in the faculty of AIIMS, New Delhi before he joined...
Latest Lab News
Announcement: Welcoming Research Assistant Ameena Mumthaz
We are delighted to welcome Ameena Mumthaz to the Mental Health for All Lab (MHFAL) as a Research Assistant for EMPOWER. Ameena Mumthaz, MBBS, MMSc, is a physician and global mental health researcher. She holds an MBBS from Kerala University of Health...
Publication: Optimising and personalising task-shared psychosocial interventions for common mental disorders: a Bayesian component network meta-analysis of individual participant data
This study investigated which specific components of psychosocial interventions delivered by non-specialists are most effective for treating depression and anxiety. Using a systematic review and Bayesian individual participant data component network meta...