Susan Meffert, MD, MPH
Working Title
Professor
Preferred Pronouns
She/Her/Hers
Susan M. Meffert M.D., M.P.H. is a Professor in the UCSF Department of Psychiatry and UCSF Global Health Sciences Faculty Affiliate.
Dr. Meffert and her team are international leaders in the field of mental health implementation science with particular expertise for designing integrated, evidence-based mental health services for diverse medical populations. Dr. Meffert has been invited to present her team's work at the World Health Organization (WHO, an agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health), the National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH, the largest funder of research on mental disorders), the World Bank and United States Agency for International Development (USAID, one of the largest aid agencies in the world).
In Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs), Dr. Meffert and her team created the Global Partnership to Enhance Mental Health Care (GEM), a UCSF program in East Africa that researches strategies to deliver evidence-based mental health care with locally available workers. Through GEM, Dr. Meffert has received over $10 million in research funding from the United States Institutes of Health (NIH) and other entities, published more than 30 articles, given numerous International and Grand Round presentations and received honors and other recognition for her team’s advancement of the field.
Dr. Meffert and her team are international leaders in the field of mental health implementation science with particular expertise for designing integrated, evidence-based mental health services for diverse medical populations. Dr. Meffert has been invited to present her team's work at the World Health Organization (WHO, an agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health), the National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH, the largest funder of research on mental disorders), the World Bank and United States Agency for International Development (USAID, one of the largest aid agencies in the world).
In Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs), Dr. Meffert and her team created the Global Partnership to Enhance Mental Health Care (GEM), a UCSF program in East Africa that researches strategies to deliver evidence-based mental health care with locally available workers. Through GEM, Dr. Meffert has received over $10 million in research funding from the United States Institutes of Health (NIH) and other entities, published more than 30 articles, given numerous International and Grand Round presentations and received honors and other recognition for her team’s advancement of the field.
- Implementation Science, 2015 - Training Institute on Dissemination & Implementation Research in Health (TIDIRH), National Institutes of Health
- Fellowship: Forensic Psychiatry, 2009 - Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco
- Fellowship: Global Mental Health Research, 2008 - Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco
- Residency, 2007 - Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco
- MPH: International Health, 2003 - School of Public Health: International Health, Harvard University
- Medical Degree, 2003 - College of Medicine, University of Iowa
- BS, 1997 - Biology, Stanford University
- BA, 1997 - Religious Studies, Stanford University
- MA, 1997 - Religious Studies, Stanford University
Antidepressive Agents, Second-Generation
Gender-Based Violence
Kenya
Refugees
Domestic Violence
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic
Spouses
Complementary Therapies
Psychotherapy
Police
HIV Seropositivity
Mental Health Services
Interpersonal Relations
Fluoxetine
Outpatients
Brief Implementation Science Training Courses
Implementation Science
Depression
Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration
International (medical)
Implementation & Dissemination Science Listservs
Interpersonal Violence
Works-in-progress Seminars
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Community-based Organization
Mass Trauma: Political Violence And Disaster Settings
Migrants/refugees
Persons With Mental Illness
- Departmental Grand Rounds, New York University Langone Department of Psychiatry, 2023
- USAID International Mental Health Program: Invited Research Presentation, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), 2023
- Accelerating Evidence to Use in Mental Health Policy and Programming, USAID-HEARD, 2022
- Keynote Speaker, International Society of Interpersonal Psychotherapy (ISIPT) Conference, 2021
- HIV and Mental Health in Africa-Collaborative Scale-Up (Lead), AIDS2020 Virtual Workshop and NIMH, 2020
- Global Mental Health- Achieving Public Health Impact, Promise of Implementation Science (moderator), NIMH, 2017
- Global Mental Health Plenary (moderator), Consortium of Universities for Global Health, 2016
- Optimizing Mental Health Service Delivery: The Science of Implementation (panelist), NIMH, 2016
- Mental health implementation strategy in Kenya selected for innovation fair (~20, globally), World Health Organization, World Bank, 2016
- LAMP: Law, Advocacy and Mental Health Project, UCSF RAP, 2015-2016
- K23, NIMH, 2014-2018
- K23 supplement, NIMH, 2014-2018
- Hellman Award for UC Investigators, UCSF, 2013-2014
- Women's Health and Empowerment Grant: Assessing Mental Health Care Needs among HIV+ women in Kenya, UCSF/UCLA, 2012-2013
- KL2 BIRCWH Award, UCSF, 2011-2014
- UCSF Global Health Sciences Burke Faculty Scholar, UCSF Global Health Sciences, 2009-2013
- RCT of Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Sichuan Earthquake Survivors, UCSF-RAP, 2009-2012
- RCT of Interpersonal Therapy for Sudanese Refugees in Cairo, UCSF-RAP, 2008-2009
August 26, 2016 - Rights organizations can avoid further harming victims
August 22, 2016 - To Stanford researcher, Syrian boy's viral photo shows vital need
June 1, 2019 - June 30, 2024 - Effectiveness Research for Common Mental Disorders in Low and Middle Income Countries: A sequential, multiple assignment randomized trial for non-specialist treatment strategies in Kenya , Principal Investigator . Sponsor: NIH, Sponsor Award ID: R01MH113722
June 1, 2019 - March 31, 2024 - The SMART-DAPPER Study: Implementation Research on Tele-Mental Health Care in the COVID19 Era , Principal Investigator . Sponsor: NIMH, Sponsor Award ID: R01MH11372202S1
August 6, 2018 - June 30, 2023 - Depression And Primary-care Partnership for Effectiveness-implementation Research (DAPPER) , Multiple Principal Investigator (MPI) . Sponsor: NIH, Sponsor Award ID: R01MH115512
June 9, 2014 - May 31, 2019 - Gender Based Violence and HIV Outcomes: Tracking and Treating Mental Illness , Principal Investigator . Sponsor: NIH, Sponsor Award ID: K23MH098767