
Dr Tatiana Salisbury
Reader in Global Mental Health and Design
Reader in Global Mental Health and Design
Dr Tatiana Taylor Salisbury is a Reader in Global Mental Health and Design at King’s College London. She also acts as Co-Director of the Centre for Global Mental Health, and Director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Mental Health at King’s. She is currently a UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Future Leaders Fellow. Through her initial fellowship period, she led the INSPIRE project which blended human-centred design, systems thinking and implementation science to develop scalable and sustainable solutions to address adolescent perinatal mental health in Kenya and Mozambique. During her fellowship renewal period, she is working with young people and other stakeholders to develop an operational toolkit to support partnership with youth in developing/adapting adolescent mental health interventions and delivery strategies. Her other interests include integrating mental health into physical health services, operationalising good quality mental health care, engaging communities in intervention development and service delivery through which she collaborates with UN agencies, national governments and NGOs.
Aims to adapt existing, evidence-based interventions for use among young mothers in Mozambique to improve their mental wellbeing before and after birth
Aims to develop and evaluate the feasibility, acceptability and impact of a six-week pilot arts-based educational intervention