#  Daniel Hofmann 

Research Fellow

 

 

 



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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 Africa and India, and why symptom trajectories differ across contexts. He received his PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Zurich, where he co-started and co-led the award-winning longitudinal Africa Long Life Study. Through this work, he has published several papers on how mental disorders present and what determines mental health in sub-Saharan African contexts, including research on suicide policy.

Daniel is interested in developing valid measurement tools that hold up across diverse cultural contexts, motivated less by methodology for its own sake than by what it enables, more effective resource allocation and more rigorous research into mental health problems. He is also interested in digital mental health interventions, ecological momentary assessment, and quantitative modeling of how mental health changes over time, alongside improving methods for collecting reliable data at scale in low-resource settings.

He is actively collaborating on several projects aimed at improving mental health in low-resource contexts and is open to collaborations.