Hosted by the GPH Global Mental Health & Stigma Program
Exploring the Importance of Stigma in Interventions Among Children and Adolescents in Populations Affected by Displacement by Dr. Sabrina Hermosilla
Seeking to understand stigma is important when designing, implementing, and disseminating findings related to interventions that seek to improve the mental health and psychosocial wellbeing of children and adolescents-- especially when addressing both the proximal risks and larger structural factors that influence mental health and psychosocial wellbeing.
Dr. Hermosilla will use examples from recent projects in Nepal, Uganda, and Jordan to walk through ways study and implementation teams explicitly deal with stigma and explore ways / open discussion on other ways that the work could be improved.
About the Speaker:
Sabrina Hermosilla, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. She completed her PhD, MIA and MPH at Columbia University, holds an MS from The City College of New York, and a BA from Colgate University. Dr. Hermosilla has almost two decades of experience designing and conducting applied research studies. She applies epidemiologic principles and methods to study social determinants of mental health and psychosocial outcomes in complex global settings. With an explicit focus on potentially modifiable factors, her research in implementation science explores and builds the evidence around commonly implemented interventions, primarily in humanitarian and forced migration settings. Her teaching centers on the epidemiology of global and adolescent mental health, and applied data collection and management best practices.