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Dr Ritsuko Kakuma

Associate Professor
Programme Director for MSc in Global Mental Health, co-Director for Centre for Global Mental Health

Room
142b

LSHTM
Keppel Street
London
WC1E 7HT
United Kingdom

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.
Omigbodun OO; Ryan GK; Fasoranti B; Chibanda D; Esliker R; Sefasi A; Kakuma R; Shakespeare T; Eaton J
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
Searle K; Blashki G; Kakuma R; Yang H; Lu S; Li B; Xiao Y; Minas H
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.
Searle K; Blashki G; Kakuma R; Yang H; Minas H
2022
International journal of environmental research and public health
Mental health support for children and adolescents with hearing loss: scoping review
Scherer N; Bright T; Musendo DJ; O'Fallon T; Kubwimana C; Eaton J; Kakuma R; Smythe T; Polack S
2021
BJPsych Open
Gender, mental health and resilience in armed conflict: listening to life stories of internally displaced women in Colombia
Zamora-Moncayo E; Burgess RA; Fonseca L; González-Gort M; Kakuma R
2021
BMJ Global Health
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