Dr Grace Ryan

My background is originally in qualitative research. I 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. I left Rwanda to join the first cohort of Global Mental Health MSc students in 2012. I've worked at the Centre for Global Mental Health on the Mental Health Innovation Network team ever since, and obtained my PhD from LSHTM in August 2024.

My 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. I 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. I then used the data that was generated through MIND ME in order to evaluate these programmes.

I am also involved in several systematic reviews focussed on issues of implementation and evaluation of complex mental health interventions in low-resource settings.