Carine is a Global Mental Health researcher with a specific interest in conflict, mental health, forced displacement and social determinants of wellbeing. She has experience using mixed methods and participatory approaches to research.
Carine has a PhD in Global Mental Health in which she focused on the mental health and wellbeing of forcibly displaced populations in high-income settings using a social justice framework. She also holds an MSc in Global Mental Health and a Bachelor’s degree in Liberal Arts and Sciences with a major in Psychology.
Carine has previously worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate on a participatory action research project looking at the mental health and wellbeing of conflict affected indigenous communities in Colombia. She now works as a Research Fellow on the CHANGE project at LSHTM. The aim of CHANGE is to develop and implement a brief psychological intervention to reduce alcohol misuse and co-occurring psychological problems in conflict-affected populations in Uganda and Ukraine through two randomised controlled trials.
Carine is also a Co-Director of the Health in Humanitarian Crises Centre and a member of the Mental Health and Psychosocial Research Network
Carine has a PhD in Global Mental Health in which she focused on the mental health and wellbeing of forcibly displaced populations in high-income settings using a social justice framework. She also holds an MSc in Global Mental Health and a Bachelor’s degree in Liberal Arts and Sciences with a major in Psychology.
Carine has previously worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate on a participatory action research project looking at the mental health and wellbeing of conflict affected indigenous communities in Colombia. She now works as a Research Fellow on the CHANGE project at LSHTM. The aim of CHANGE is to develop and implement a brief psychological intervention to reduce alcohol misuse and co-occurring psychological problems in conflict-affected populations in Uganda and Ukraine through two randomised controlled trials.
Carine is also a Co-Director of the Health in Humanitarian Crises Centre and a member of the Mental Health and Psychosocial Research Network
Affiliations
Department of Health Services Research and Policy
Faculty of Public Health and Policy
Centres
Health in Humanitarian Crises Centre
Teaching
Carine is the Co-Module lead for the Design and Evaluation of Mental Health Programs on the MSc in Global Mental Health. She also teaches on the MSc in Health in Humanitarian Crises.
I am currently supervising two PhD students.
I am currently supervising two PhD students.
Research
Research Area
Refugees
Health in humanitarian crises
Conflict
Migration
Implementation science
Randomised controlled trials
Complex interventions
Health systems
Global mental health
Selected Publications
Measuring refugees' capabilities: translation, adaptation, and valuation of the OxCAP-MH into Juba Arabic for use among South Sudanese male refugees in Uganda.
2024
Journal of patient-reported outcomes
Using theory of change to plan for the implementation of a psychological intervention addressing alcohol use disorder and psychological distress in Uganda.
2024
Cambridge Prisms: Global Mental Health
Enhancing the capabilities of forcibly displaced people: a human development approach to conflict- and displacement-related stressors.
2021
Epidemiology and psychiatric sciences
‘Good life is first of all security, not to live in fear’: a qualitative exploration of female refugees’ quality of life in the United Kingdom
2020
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies