Meet Our Team

Victoria Mutiso, PhD, is a Clinical Psychologist and Director of Research at Africa Institute of Mental and Brain Health (AFRIMEB). Her research interest is in child and adolescent mental health, development, and adaptation of culturally appropriate interventions around promotion of mental well-being and prevention of/or delay of the onset of mental illness in young people, as well as underserved and marginalized populations in Kenyan urban and rural settings. She has experience in navigating the Kenyan political and bureaucratic terrains, and with this, she successfully engaged with a Kenyan county government to integrate mental health services at the primary healthcare level, including maternal and child mental health services. She has been Principal and Co-Investigator in several mental health projects at AFRIMEB with other Kenyan and international collaborators on mental health and substance abuse, which are the basis for policy and practice in Kenya. She has several publications on various aspects of public mental health in Kenya.