Betancourt awarded grant from NIH/NIMH

Salem Professor in Global Practice Theresa Betancourt was awarded a grant from the NIH/NIMH to support her project “Expanding the Reach of Evidence-Based Mental Health Treatment: Diffusion and Spillover of Mental Health Benefits among Peer Networks and Caregivers of Youth Facing Compounded Adversity in Sierra Leone.”

She recently co-authored two articles related to her research there: “Stigma and Acceptance of Sierra Leone’s Child Soldiers: A Prospective Longitudinal Study of Adult Mental Health and Social Functioning” in the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and “Parenting and discipline in post-conflict Sierra Leone” in Child Abuse & Neglect. She also recently co-authored “Caregiving can be costly: A qualitative study of barriers and facilitators to conducting kangaroo mother care in a US tertiary hospital neonatal intensive care unit” in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. Betancourt also spoke on a Harvard Global Health Institute panel on the U.S.-Mexico border crisis in July.