Dr Petra Gronholm is an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Global Mental Health, Department of Population Health.
She joined LSHTM in August 2024. Before this, Petra held positions at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King's College London, London School of Economics and Political Science, Imperial College London, and Columbia University. She currently holds affiliate positions at King's College London and University College London.
Affiliations
Teaching
- MSc Global Mental Health: co-module organiser for Design and Evaluation of Mental Health Programmes, and lecturing on the Introduction to Global Mental Health and Theory to Practice in Global Mental Health modules
- MSc supervision, PhD/DrPH supervision
- Personal tutor
- Guest lecturing at e.g. KCL UK, UCL UK, QMUL UK, NIMHANS India, Sangath India
I'm happy to discuss MSc supervision requests for projects (systematic reviews and other evidence syntheses, qualitative methods, mixed methods) on topics broadly related to stigma and discrimination; service access, barriers and facilitators; and lived experience of mental health.
For PhD/DrPH supervision, I encourage prospective students to contact me as early as possible in the process of preparing applications for funding/LSHTM admission.
Research
Dr Petra Gronholm is a driven mental health researcher and educator, with over 15 years’ experience working with partners across academia, healthcare, NGOs, and international agencies. Her work aims to drive practical change, and Petra has contributed to the development of guidelines and toolkits, including in collaboration with WHO.
Petra holds core expertise in mental health research and health services research, considering questions around help-seeking and service access, including exploring barriers and facilitators of service access considering the role of mental health stigma and discrimination. Much of Petra's current work explores these phenomena in a global mental health context, and her work also consider these questions with a specific focus on cultural influences, and children and young people. Petra is collaborating on a number of projects focused on developing, implementing and evaluating anti-stigma interventions, and considering the experience of people living with mental health conditions, e.g. in terms of stigma, discrimination, and human rights.
Her work takes an applied health services research perspective, bridging theory and practice.
Petra holds methodological expertise in literature reviews and evidence synthesis, mixed methods research, and qualitative research approaches.
Selected Publications
