Dr. Brandon Kohrt, MD

• Psychiatry

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• Emory University School Of Medicine

  Medical School, 2009

• Psychological and contextual risk factors for first-onset depression among adolescents and young people around the globe: A systematic review and meta-analysis, 2022-04-07

• Satisfaction in the Soul: Common Factors Theory Applied to Traditional Healers in Rural Nepal, 2020-06-29

• A dialectical behavior therapy skills intervention for women with suicidal behaviors in rural Nepal: A single-case experimental design series, 2018-02-19

• Elucidating adolescent aspirational models for the design of public mental health interventions: a mixed-method study in rural Nepal, 2017-12-21

• Perspectives of healthcare providers, service users, and family members about mental illness stigma in primary care settings: A multi-site qualitative study of seven countries in Africa, Asia, and Europe, 2021-10-27

• Cultural and contextual adaptation of mental health measures in Kenya: An adolescent-centered transcultural adaptation of measures study, 2022-12-15

• The Role of Communities in Mental Health Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Meta-Review of Components and Competencies, 2018-06-16

• Common factors in psychological treatments delivered by non-specialists in low- and middle-income countries: Manual review of competencies, 2020-07-17

• Gender and Child Behavior Problems in Rural Nepal: Differential Expectations and Responses, 2019-05-21

• Reintegration of child soldiers in Burundi: a tracer study, 2012-10-25

• Contextualization of psychological treatments for government health systems in low-resource settings: group interpersonal psychotherapy for caregivers of children with nodding syndrome in Uganda, 2018-06-28

• Stigma reduction interventions for children and adolescents in low- and middle-income countries: Systematic review of intervention strategies, 2019-12-19

• Situational analysis to inform development of primary care and community-based mental health services for severe mental disorders in Nepal, 2017-11-15

• Implementation strategy in collaboration with people with lived experience of mental illness to reduce stigma among primary care providers in Nepal (RESHAPE): protocol for a type 3 hybrid implementation effectiveness cluster randomized controlled trial, 2022-06-16

• Predicting the risk of depression among adolescents in Nepal using a model developed in Brazil: the IDEA Project, 2020-03-12

• Research Review: Psychosocial adjustment and mental health in former child soldiers - a systematic review of the literature and recommendations for future research, 2012-10-12

• Perception and Use of Primary Healthcare Services Among People With Cardiometabolic Diseases in Two Resource-Limited Areas in Nepal: A Mixed Methods Study, 2021-09-23

• Mental health and psychosocial support in humanitarian settings: research priorities for 2021-30, 2023-04-25

• Predicting the risk of future depression among school-attending adolescents in Nigeria using a model developed in Brazil., 2020-12-01

• Systematic review of interventions to reduce mental health stigma in India, 2020-11-10

• Exploring the role of immune pathways in the risk and development of depression in adolescence: Research protocol of the IDEA-FLAME study, 2021-11-27

• Hemicrania Continua Headache in a Veteran with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Major Depressive Disorder without Traumatic Brain Injury, 2012-06-03

• Tension and Other Idioms of Distress Among Slum Dwelling Young Men: A Qualitative Study of Depression in Urban Bangladesh, 2021-07-30

• Measuring mental health in humanitarian crises: a practitioner's guide to validity, 2021-09-26

• Why Psychiatry Needs the Anthropologist: A Reflection on 80 Years of Culture in Mental Health, 2019-08-10

• A distress-continuum, disorder-threshold model of depression: a mixed-methods, latent class analysis study of slum-dwelling young men in Bangladesh, 2021-06-04

• Adolescent perspectives on depression as a disease of loneliness: a qualitative study with youth and other stakeholders in urban Nepal, 2022-06-23

• Psychological treatments delivered by community health workers in low-resource government health systems: effectiveness of group interpersonal psychotherapy for caregivers of children affected by Nodding Syndrome in Uganda, 2018-02-15

• Feasibility assessment of invigorating grassrooTs primary healthcare for prevention and management of cardiometabolic diseases in resource-limited settings in China, Kenya, Nepal, Vietnam (the FAITH study): rationale and design, 2019-11-12

• Addressing culture and context in humanitarian response: preparing desk reviews to inform mental health and psychosocial support, 2017-11-15

• Developing a Theory of Change model of service user and caregiver involvement in mental health system strengthening in primary health care in rural Ethiopia, 2020-07-23

• Mental health stigma and discrimination in Ethiopia: evidence synthesis to inform stigma reduction interventions, 2022-06-23

• Mental health and psychosocial support needs among people displaced by Boko Haram in Nigeria, 2019-09-19

• Process evaluation of a district mental healthcare plan in Nepal: a mixed-methods case study, 2020-07-28

• Childhood exposure to ambient air pollution and predicting individual risk of depression onset in UK adolescents, 2021-03-25

• Maternal mental health priorities, help-seeking behaviors, and resources in post-conflict settings: a qualitative study in eastern Uganda, 2018-02-07

• Experiences and Perceptions of Telephone-delivery of the Common Elements Treatment Approach for Mental Health Needs Among Young People in Zambia During the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2022-10-13

• Development of the mental health cultural adaptation and contextualization for implementation (mhCACI) procedure: a systematic framework to prepare evidence-based psychological interventions for scaling, 2021-02-19

• Competency-based pre-service education for clinical psychology training in low- and middle-income countries: Case study of Makerere University in Uganda, 2022-10-10

• Chronic pain and mental health: integrated solutions for global problems, 2018-05-30

• Proactive detection of people in need of mental healthcare: accuracy of the community case detection tool among children, adolescents and families in Sri Lanka, 2021-10-08

• Reducing mental illness stigma in healthcare settings: Proof of concept for a social contact intervention to address what matters most for primary care providers, 2020-02-15

• A service user co-facilitated intervention to reduce mental illness stigma among primary healthcare workers: Utilizing perspectives of family members and caregivers, 2018-01-23

• The Experience of Receiving a Diagnosis of Depression in Adolescence: A Pilot Qualitative Study in Brazil, 2022-02-14

• Evaluation of proactive community case detection to increase help-seeking for mental health care: a pragmatic randomized controlled trial, 2020-04-23

• Telomere length analysis from minimally-invasively collected samples: Methods development and meta-analysis of the validity of different sampling techniques, 2020-03-18

• How competent are non-specialists trained to integrate mental health services in primary care? Global health perspectives from Uganda, Liberia, and Nepal, 2019-02-27

• Law enforcement and mental health clinician partnerships in global mental health: outcomes for the Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) model adaptation in Liberia, West Africa, 2020-01-10

• Use of Role Plays to Assess Therapist Competency and its Association with Client Outcomes in Psychological Interventions: A Scoping Review and Competency Research Agenda, 2019-12-14

• Validation of a cross-cultural instrument for child behavior problems: the Disruptive Behavior International Scale - Nepal version, 2018-11-03

• Mechanisms of action for stigma reduction among primary care providers following social contact with service users and aspirational figures in Nepal: an explanatory qualitative design, 2022-08-11

• Reassessing the Mental Health Treatment Gap: What Happens if We Include the Impact of Traditional Healing on Mental Illness?, 2020-09-07

• Caring for Families Separated by Changing Immigration Policies and Enforcement: A Cultural Psychiatry Perspective, 2018-08-20

• Engaging families to advance global mental health intervention research, 2019-04-04

• The Identifying Depression Early in Adolescence Risk Stratified Cohort (IDEA-RiSCo): Rationale, Methods, and Baseline Characteristics, 2021-06-21

• Law Enforcement and Clinician Partnerships: Training of Trainers for CIT Teams in Liberia, West Africa, 2019-06-12

• Toward a multi-level strategy to reduce stigma in global mental health: overview protocol of the Indigo Partnership to develop and test interventions in low- and middle-income countries, 2023-02-03

• Perinatal depression and implementation of the "Thinking Healthy program” support intervention in an impoverished setting of Lima, Peru: Assessment before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, 2023-09-08

• Using participatory action research to pilot a model of service user and caregiver involvement in mental health system strengthening in Ethiopian primary healthcare: a case study, 2022-07-11

• Longitudinal associations between adolescents' individualised risk for depression and inflammation in a UK cohort study, 2022-03-01

• Community-, facility-, and individual-level outcomes of a district mental healthcare plan in a low-resource setting in Nepal: A population-based evaluation, 2019-02-14

• Policy Makers' Tough Choices for Psychological Interventions in Global Mental Health Learning from Multisite Studies, 2020-05-01

• Effectiveness of Group Problem Management Plus, a brief psychological intervention for adults affected by humanitarian disasters in Nepal: A cluster randomized controlled trial, 2021-06-17

• Transforming mental healthcare in higher education through scalable mental health interventions, 2023-06-23

• Syndemics of HIV with mental illness and other noncommunicable diseases: a research agenda to address the gap between syndemic theory and current research practice, 2020-09-29

• Impact of Service User Video Presentations on Explicit and Implicit Stigma toward Mental Illness among Medical Students in Nepal: A Randomized Controlled Trial, 2021-02-22

• A mixed methods evaluation of a World Health Organization competency-based training package for foundational helping skills among pre-service and in-service health workers in Nepal, Peru and Uganda, 2023-08-14

• Traditional and biomedical care pathways for mental well-being in rural Nepal, 2021-01-07

• Protocol for a feasibility study of group-based focused psychosocial support to improve the psychosocial well-being and functioning of adults affected by humanitarian crises in Nepal: Group Problem Management Plus (PM+), 2018-07-18

• Out of the silos: identifying cross-cutting features of health-related stigma to advance measurement and intervention, 2019-02-15

• Reducing stigma among healthcare providers to improve mental health services (RESHAPE): protocol for a pilot cluster randomized controlled trial of a stigma reduction intervention for training primary healthcare workers in Nepal, 2018-01-24

• Adolescent depression beyond DSM definition: a network analysis, 2021-12-02

• Interpersonal violence and suicidality among former child soldiers and war-exposed civilian children in Nepal IPV and suicidality among former child soldiers, 2018-02-22

• Psychosocial Peer Support to Address Mental Health and Burnout of Health Care Workers Affected by COVID-19: A Qualitative Evaluation, 2023-03-03

• Identifying risk factors and detection strategies for adolescent depression in diverse global settings: A Delphi consensus study, 2021-01-15

• Mental health related stigma, service provision and utilization in Northern India: situational analysis, 2023-04-27

• Collaboration With People With Lived Experience of Mental Illness to Reduce Stigma and Improve Primary Care Services A Pilot Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial Collaboration With People With Lived Experience of Mental Illness to Improve Primary Care Services, 2021-11-03

• Prevalence and correlates of depression and alcohol use disorder among adults attending primary health care services in Nepal: a cross sectional study, 2018-03-27

• Eliciting Recovery Narratives in Global Mental Health: Benefits and Potential Harms in Service User Participation, 2019-07-29

• Detection of risk for future depression among adolescents: Stakeholder views of acceptability and feasibility in the United Kingdom, 2022-02-01

• Treatment Preferences for Pharmacological versus Psychological Interventions among Primary Care Providers in Nepal: Mixed Methods Analysis of a Pilot Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial, 2022-02-14

• Mind the brain gap: The worldwide distribution of neuroimaging research on adolescent depression, 2021-02-14

• A cross-cultural interpersonal model of adolescent depression: A qualitative study in rural Nepal, 2021-02-01

• Feasibility and Acceptability of a School-Based Emotion Regulation Prevention Intervention (READY-Nepal) for Secondary School Students in Post-Earthquake Nepal, 2022-11-04

• Feasibility study of a family- and school-based intervention for child behavior problems in Nepal, 2018-03-23

• Lessons learned through piloting a community-based SMS referral system for common mental health disorders used by female community health volunteers in rural Nepal, 2020-07-01

• Scaling up mental health care and psychosocial support in low-resource settings: a roadmap to impact, 2020-11-26

• Who benefits from psychosocial support interventions in humanitarian settings?, 2018-04-25

• Justice for George Floyd and a reckoning for global mental health, 2020-08-26

• Culturally and developmentally adapting group interpersonal therapy for adolescents with depression in rural Nepal, 2020-08-12

• Suicide in Nepal: Qualitative findings from a modified case-series psychological autopsy investigation of suicide deaths, 2018-05-26

• Feasibility of implementing a culturally adapted Prolonged Grief Disorder scale in the mental healthcare system in Nepal, 2021-09-15

• Effectiveness of Group Problem Management Plus (Group-PM+) for adults affected by humanitarian crises in Nepal: study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial, 2020-04-19

• School-based group interpersonal therapy for adolescents with depression in rural Nepal: a mixed methods study exploring feasibility, acceptability, and cost, 2022-01-01

• "Like a doctor, like a brother”: Achieving competence amongst lay health workers delivering community-based rehabilitation for people with schizophrenia in Ethiopia, 2021-02-25

• Empowerment training to support service user involvement in mental health system strengthening in rural Ethiopia: a mixed-methods pilot study, 2022-07-08

• Identifying adolescents at risk for depression: assessment of a global prediction model in the Great Smoky Mountains Study, 2022-08-20

• Cortisol and development of depression in adolescence and young adulthood - a systematic review and meta-analysis, 2022-02-01

• Improving detection of mental health problems in community settings in Nepal: development and pilot testing of the community informant detection tool, 2017-11-20