Prof Crick Lund, Dr Erica Breuer, Dr Memory Munodawafa and Prof Marguerite Schneider after the graduation ceremony.
The Alan J Flisher Centre for Public Mental Health is proud of its most recent PhD graduates. Dr Erica Breuer, Project Manager for the CPMH’s project for Improving Mental Healthcare (PRIME) graduated after focusing on “Using Theory of Change to design and evaluate complex mental health interventions in low and middle-income countries: the case of PRIME”.
Dr Memory Munodawafa’s research dissertation was titled: “Filling the Gap: Development and qualitative process evaluation of a task sharing psycho-social counselling intervention for perinatal depression in Khayelitsha, South Africa.”
Prof Katherine Sorsdahl, CPMH co-director at UCT, welcomed the group to th erapid-fire presentations.
Dr Sarah Skeen presented their work at the Institute for Life Course Health Research.
Stephan Rabie described the work he and his colleagues have done through the Eyethu Soccer Study.
Prof Ashraf Kagee, CPMH co-director for Stellenbosch University, presented on his research relating to HIV and screening for mental illness.
There were time for questions after each presentation. Here Dr Claire van der Westhuizen shares her experience with screening tools.
Prof Crick Lund, Professor of Global Mental Health at the CPMH, then presented on the Programme for Imprving Mental Healthcare (PRIME) which is drawing to an end in April 2019.
More discussion ensued.
Dr Claire van der Westhuizen caught the group up on their work on MIND and MIND-Y.
Dr Simone Honikman, director of the Perinatal Mental Health Project (PMHP), caught us up on their work.
ASSET, one of the Centre’s latest collaborations, ASSET, were introduced by Dr Zulfa Abrahams.
Prof Marguerite Schneider, CPMH deputy director, spoke about the progress in STRiDE – Strengthening responses to dementia in developing countries.
One of three PhD students from the Centre presenting on the day, Sumaiyah Docrat, presented her progress.
Another PHD student, Emily Baron, hopes to submit her final work ealry in 2019.
Thadi Davies, also a PhD student, finished off the day with an update on her research and writing.
CPMH researchers from the University of Cape Town and Stellenbosch University came together in November to share their ongoing research projects. The goal of the rapid-fire presentations was to inform the greater research community of CPMH activities. After being welcomed by Ashraf Kagee and Katherine Sorsdahl, CPMH co-director, Dr Sarah Skeen presented their work at the Institute for Life Course Health Research. After that Stephan Rabie described the work he and his colleagues have done through the Eyethu Soccer Study. Sarah and Stephan do their work through Stellenboch University. The University of Cape Town’s CPMH team then presented their current work. Prof Crick Lund, professor of Global Mental Health, presented on the Project to Improve Mental Health Care (PRIME), an eight-year research consortium. Dr Claire van der Westhuizen followed with a discussion on MIND and MINDY. Dr Simone Honikman spoke about the PHMP’s challenges and successes, Dr Zulfa Abrahams spoke about the first year of ASSET and prof Marguerite Schneider updated the attendees on STRiDE. Following that, three of the CPMH’s PhD students updated us on their research progress.
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