Dr Grace Ryan
Assistant Professor in Global Mental Health
Grace’s background is originally in qualitative research. She studied Social Anthropology at Harvard University before joining the international health and social justice organisation Partners In Health/Inshuti Mu Buzima Rwanda as part of a qualitative health services research team. She left Rwanda to join the first cohort of Global Mental Health MSc students in 2012. She has worked at the Centre for Global Mental Health ever since, and obtained her PhD from LSHTM in August 2024.
Her PhD research focused on best practice in the implementation of mental health information and monitoring and evaluation systems (or “MIND ME” systems) capable of generating routine mental health outcome data for the purposes of evaluation. She carried out formative research and implementation research in order to develop MIND ME systems for a community mental health programme in Nigeria and a peer support worker programme in Uganda. She then used the data that was generated through MIND ME in order to evaluate these programmes.
She is also involved in several systematic reviews focussed on issues of implementation and evaluation of complex mental health interventions in low-resource settings.
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