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DHA Campus, IslamabadMandra Campus, Rawalpindi
Youth depression, longitudinal evidence
A longitudinal study generating high-quality evidence on how individual and combined stressors contribute to the onset of depressive symptoms in young people, in Pakistan, Indonesia and Colombia.
The problem being addressed
Depression is one of the leading causes of illness and disability among adolescents worldwide. To address this urgent public health concern, our research project aims to generate high-quality longitudinal evidence on how individual and combined stressors contribute to the onset of depressive symptoms in young people.
This groundbreaking study is being conducted in Pakistan, Indonesia, and Colombia in collaboration with young individuals with lived experience of mental health challenges.
Study objectives
Who is involved
Global Institute of Human Development, Shifa Tameer-e-Millat University, Pakistan
Global Youth Mental Health Research Fellowship
The fellowship identifies emerging leaders in child and adolescent mental health in Pakistan, Indonesia and Colombia — early career clinical, academic and lived-experience professionals — and gives them world-class training, mentorship, networking and hands-on global mental health research.
It is designed and run by GIHD at Shifa Tameer-e-Millat University, with The George Washington University, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Universidad de los Andes and The Global Health Network.
Eligibility, what the fellowship offers, the 2026 application timeline and the programme's supervisors and mentors are set out on the fellowship's page.
Peer-reviewed output
Hamdani, S.U., Huma, Z.E., Chakrabarti, B. et al.
BMC Psychiatry 25, 647
Being Initiative
Being Initiative report, 2024
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