While much effort has gone into developing mental health interventions for delivery in the Global South, the integration of evidence-based interventions into existing services is highly limited. Many factors contribute to this outcome, one of which is the lack of partnership with those who would receive and deliver interventions in their design.

Through her UKRI Future Leader’s Fellow award, Dr Salisbury has focused on the co-design of an adolescent perinatal mental health intervention in Kenya and Mozambique. During her talk, she will share her experience of working with adolescents and their communities and what she has learnt about using co-design techniques in the Global South. 

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Speaker bio: Dr Tatiana Taylor Salisbury is Reader in Global Mental Health and Design at King’s College London (KCL). She is Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Mental Health at KCL and Co-Director of the Centre for Global Mental Health.  She is a UKRI Future Leader’s Fellow and trustee of the Global Alliance for Maternal Mental Health. Her work blends human-centred design, systems thinking and implementation science to develop development of scalable and sustainable solutions to improve mental health. Tatiana’s other interests include integrating mental health into physical health services, operationalising good quality mental health care, and engaging communities in intervention development and service delivery.

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