Providence/Boston Center for AIDS Research (CFAR)

Dr. Desrosiers is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown University and a core faculty member in the Brown Research on Implementation and Dissemination to Guide Evidence Use (BRIDGE) Program. Dr. Desrosiers serves on the Center for Global Health Equity (CGHE) Advisory Committee and the BIRCH Global Health Subcommittee. Her work focuses on implementation science in the global mental health context. More specifically, she applies user-centered design, task-sharing approaches and digital solutions to improve delivery quality of evidence-based interventions for vulnerable populations globally. Dr. Desrosiers is the Principal Investigator of a National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) funded R01 hybrid implementation-effectiveness trial to investigate implementation of an evidence-based mental health intervention delivered by teachers in Sierra Leone’s secondary schools, and an NIMH funded R34 to implement a digital platform for suicide prevention among youth in schools in Colombia. She has also collaborated on a pilot project to adapt and test an economic empowerment and entrepreneurship training program to prevent teen pregnancy among indigenous youth in Ecuador. Future projects include streamlining an evidence-based mental health intervention for youth living with HIV in Kenya and developing an implementation blueprint to address barriers to implementation and sustainment.

Areas of Expertise: mental health interventions, adaptation and fidelity monitoring, vulnerable youth, global health

Method Expertise: implementation science, cultural adaptation, intervention design

Types of Grants: NIH R21, R34, R01s; Hilton Foundation; Fulbright