We’re excited to invite Kate Lovero from the Mailman School of Public Health, Department of Sociomedical Sciences to give our next SPIRIT speaker series talk.

Dr. Lovero will be presenting on Strengthening Adolescent Mental Health Services in Resource-Limited Settings: From Epidemiology to Implementation.

Kate Lovero, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Sociomedical Sciences at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Dr. Lovero’s research centers on the design and implementation of programs to improve adolescent mental health in resource-limited settings. She also focuses on the development and validation of measurement instruments for mental health problems as well as the adaptation of mental health interventions and implementation science research tools for non-Western settings. She currently collaborates with governmental and non-governmental organizations on research and capacity-building projects in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia. Prior to her position at Columbia University, Dr. Lovero was a Fogarty International Center Global Health Equity Scholar and Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where she worked to define barriers to and develop improved services for maternal-child health. Dr. Lovero completed her doctoral work in Neuroscience as a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow at the University of California San Francisco, where she examined the molecular structures underlying normal and pathological synapse development.