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ely delivered\u00a0mental\u00a0healthcare\u00a0in LMICs.<\/p>\nMental disorders are the leading cause\u00a0of\u00a0disability worldwide, yet treatment gaps exceed 90% in many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).\u00a0Considerable progress\u00a0is being\u00a0made in access to mental healthcare through task-shifting to lower-level healthcare providers.\u00a0While task-sharing may increase access to care, little\u00a0existing\u00a0global mental health work\u00a0is\u00a0focused on improving the quality of\u00a0routinely delivered\u00a0mental\u00a0healthcare\u00a0in LMICs.<\/p>\n
Dr. Bradley Wagenaar, a UW MH faculty member,\u00a0is looking to\u00a0address this\u00a0urgent\u00a0need for\u00a0evidence-based strategies to\u00a0optimize\u00a0the MH care cascade globally.\u00a0Dr. Wagenaar was recently awarded an R01\u00a0from NIMH to implement\u00a0a study using an\u00a0innovative approach\u00a0to\u00a0the “mental health care cascade” where\u00a0he has\u00a0outlined the linked steps a patient must go through to achieve the final goal of improved function.<\/p>\n
This\u00a0attention\u00a0to the multiple steps linked to care\u00a0is important as strategies focused on one step in a care cascade can contribute to unintended system bottlenecks and quality of care issues. By contrast, the\u00a0Systems\u00a0Analysis\u00a0and Improvement Approach<\/a>\u00a0(SAIA) is a multicomponent implementation strategy focused on\u00a0optimizing\u00a0quality across an entire care cascade.\u00a0SAIA blends\u00a0facilitation and collaborative clinician team meetings with systems-engineering tools in a 5-step approach developed for task-shared providers.\u00a0The funded R01 project will also analyze mechanisms of action that explain the impact of a multi-component\u00a0strategy to inform how these strategies can optimally be delivered across various settings.\u00a0If effective, the SAIA-MH implementation strategy has a large potential to be rapidly scaled-up to decrease gaps in task-shared MH treatments globally.<\/p>\n Sustainability\u00a0of the interventions and building local\u00a0capacity\u00a0are key aims of this project.\u00a0Dr. Wagenaar\u2019s team has worked to integrate the project within the\u00a0Mozambican\u00a0Ministry of Health (MoH), and implementation will be led by a local Mozambican organization.\u00a0They\u00a0will partner with investigators and providers in the\u00a0MoH\u00a0to\u00a0deliver\u00a0care within routine government clinics.\u00a0This approach centers around supporting providers on the front lines and government to\u00a0effectively integrate mental healthcare into primary care.<\/p>\n Dr. Melanie Abas, Professor of Global Mental health at the Institute of Psychiatry and Neuroscience<\/a>, King’s College London, has two full-time, four year openings in her department.\u00a0 The roles are Research Project Manager<\/b><\/a> and Research Project Administrator<\/b><\/a>.\u00a0 The project is a Global Health Research Group on Depression and Anxiety in African Countries – “African Youth in Mind”, led by Dr. Abas and Dr. Dixon Chibanda.\u00a0 The Research Project Manager position is an excellent opportunity for someone with some research experience and a real interest in low-intensity psychological interventions.\u00a0 Visas can be sponsored if the chosen candidate holds a PhD or close equivalent.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dr. Bradley Wagenaar awarded R01 to study an innovative approach to the mental health care cascade in Mozambique Mental disorders are the leading cause\u00a0of\u00a0disability worldwide, yet treatment gaps exceed 90% in many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).\u00a0Considerable progress\u00a0is being\u00a0made in access to mental healthcare through task-shifting to lower-level healthcare providers.\u00a0While task-sharing may increase access to care, little\u00a0existing\u00a0global mental health work\u00a0is\u00a0focused on improving the quality of\u00a0routinely delivered\u00a0mental\u00a0healthcare\u00a0in LMICs. Dr. Bradley Wagenaar, a UW MH faculty member,\u00a0is looking to\u00a0address this\u00a0urgent\u00a0need for\u00a0evidence-based strategies…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwgmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwgmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwgmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwgmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwgmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1147"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwgmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1158,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwgmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147\/revisions\/1158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwgmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwgmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwgmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Global Mental Health Opportunities<\/h2>\n
Local and Global Mental Health Updates<\/h2>\n
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Global Mental Health Funding Opportunities<\/h2>\n
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