Carine is a Global Mental Health researcher with a specific interest in conflict, mental health, and social determinants of wellbeing. She completed her BSc in Psychology at the University of Utrecht. After her BSc, she went on to pursue an MSc in Global Mental Health from the University of Glasgow. Following her MSc, she completed her PhD at the University of Liverpool. During her PhD she conducted research on the mental health and wellbeing of forcibly displaced populations in high-income countries using the Capability Approach. This culminated in the development and publication of a capability-based wellbeing measure for female migrants in high-income settings.
Following her PhD, she worked as a postdoctoral research associate on a participatory action research project looking at the mental health and psychosocial wellbeing of the indigenous Kankuamo community in Colombia. For this project, she conducted fieldwork in Colombia, and co-developed a capability-based mental health and wellbeing measure together with members of the Kankuamo community. The aim of the project was to develop a mental health and wellbeing measure that could speak to the understandings of wellbeing and broader worldviews of the Kankuamo people.
She now works on the CHANGE project at LSHTM.The aim of CHANGE is to develop and implement a brief psychological intervention to reduce alcohol misuse and co-occurring psychological problems in conflict-affected populations.
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