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Rosie Mayston

Dr Rosie Mayston

Senior Lecturer in Global Mental Health

Research interests

  • Biomedical and life sciences
  • Medicine
  • Mental Health

Biography

Dr Rosie Mayston is a Senior Lecturer in Global Mental Health, in the Department of Global Health & Social Medicine. She is also a Senior Researcher in the Centre for Global Mental Health, Health Service & Population Research Department, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience. 

She is a mixed-methods researcher with a background in anthropology and demography. Her research focuses on mental health and chronic physical illness amongst people living in low and middle-income countries. 

Her PhD was in psychiatric epidemiology, focusing on HIV, common mental disorders and access to services in Goa, India. Following her PhD, she developed an interest in broader issues around chronic illness and mental health, in particular, how comorbidity might be best managed and treated to achieve positive physical and mental health outcomes and what systems might be necessary to achieve this.

Research

  • Medical innovations for chronic conditions
  • Families and communities

Rosie is involved in a number of projects focusing on mental health in low and middle-income countries, including those with a specific focus on older age. She is member of the 10/66 Dementia Research Group, which explores the social aspects of ageing.

Further details

See Rosie's research profile

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    New NIHR Global Health Research Group on homelessness and severe mental illness in Africa receives £3 million funding

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      News

      New NIHR Global Health Research Group on homelessness and severe mental illness in Africa receives £3 million funding

      A major new project which aims to address the needs of people experiencing homelessness and severe mental illness (SMI) in Ethiopia, Ghana and Kenya has been...

      Homelessnesss