Dr Ritsuko Kakuma
Associate Professor
Programme Director for MSc in Global Mental Health, co-Director for Centre for Global Mental Health
Ritz Kakuma joined the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in January 2018. She is an Associate Professor in Global Mental Health and Programme Director for the Joint MSc in Global Mental Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She has a background in epidemiology and biostatistics, public health and mental health systems and policy research.
Affiliations
Department of Population Health
Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health
Teaching
Module Organiser: Introduction to Global Mental Health
Lecture into several other modules
Research
Research Area
Complex interventions
Health care policy
Health policy
Health services research
Health systems
Primary care
Public health
Research : policy relationship
Systematic reviews
Adolescent health
Health workers
Capacity strengthening
Ethics
Evaluation
Global Health
Health services
Mixed methods
Implementation research
Qualitative methods
Disease and Health Conditions
Mental health
Country
Australia
Malawi
Nigeria
Sierra Leone
Timor-Leste
Uganda
Vietnam
Zimbabwe
Region
East Asia & Pacific (all income levels)
South Asia
Sub-Saharan Africa (all income levels)
World
Selected Publications
Reprioritising global mental health: psychoses in sub-Saharan Africa.
2023
International journal of mental health systems
Adapting the depression component of WHO Mental Health Gap Intervention Guide (mhGAP-IG.v2) for primary care in Shenzhen, China: a DELPHI study
2022
International Journal of Mental Health Systems
Listening to the Shenzhen Primary Healthcare Context to Adapt the mhGAP-IG.v2 for the Assessment of Depression: Qualitative Workshops with Primary Healthcare Leaders.
2022
International journal of environmental research and public health