The Duke Center for Global Mental Health maintains a growing network of partnerships across Latin America, working with academic institutions, research groups, and community organizations to implement and evaluate mental health programs across diverse settings. These collaborations span a wide range of topics, including alcohol and substance use disorder, family and child well-being, and immigrant and refugee mental health.
Brazil
In Brazil, affiliates with the Duke Center for Global Mental Health works with a wide network of institutional partners through GEMINI (Global Emergency Medicine Innovation and Implementation Research Center). These partnerships include the School of Health Sciences at the State University of Amazonas, the Graduate Program in Collective Health at the Federal University of Maranhão, the State University of Maringá, the research group on Evaluation in Well-Being and Mental Health at the Pontifical Catholic University, and the Federal University of Pelotas. Together, these collaborations support research on substance use disorders and alcohol use, including the adaptation of the Alcohol Use Behavioral Phenotyping Test (AUBPT), a computer-based dimensional assessment that can be culturally adapted to assess alcohol use behaviors, for the Brazilian Context.
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Colombia
In Colombia, CGMH faculty affiliates and members of the Center for Child and Family Policy (CCFP) collaborate with partners at the Universidad de San Buenaventura on the Parenting Across Cultures initative, a longitudinal study across nine countries that is researching how biological, cultural and familial processes impact child development, self-regulation and risk-taking.
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