Meet Our Team

Christine Musyimi, Ph.D. (Global Mental Health) is a Research Scientist and the Research Ethics and Scientific Publications Officer at the Africa Institute of Mental and Brain Health (AFRIMEB). She is also a Collaborating Faculty Member at the Columbia-WHO Center for Global Mental Health, Columbia University, New York and a Fellow of the National Institute of Mental Health’s (NIMH) Global Mental Health Visionary Innovators Shaping Tomorrow's Advancements (VISTA). Her research interests include addressing social determinants of mental health (e.g. stigma and discrimination, climate change, violence, homelessness and early life adversities including child maltreatment) that contribute to mental health disparities among marginalized populations. Dr. Musyimi’s research has specifically focused on engaging non-mental health specialists and people with lived experience to deliver contextually relevant evidence-based interventions for priority mental health conditions, intimate partner violence and dementia to improve access to quality care. She has been a Co-lead on the Davos Alzheimer’s Collaborative funded DEM-SKY project that generated the first prevalence estimates of dementia from a sample of over 3,500 older adults in rural Kenya. She is also a Principal Investigator (with Dr. Samantha Winter) on the NIMH’s funded R21/R33 grant on “Development and testing of a smartphone-delivered climate adaptation and IPV and related stress intervention for residents of informal settlements in Kenya using ecological momentary approaches”.