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    Susan Meffert, MD, MPH

    TitleHealth Sciences Assistant Clinical Professor
    SchoolUCSF School of Medicine
    DepartmentPsychiatry
    Address401 Parnassus Ave, LangPorter
    San Francisco CA 94143

       Biography 
       Awards and Honors
      UCSF/UCLA2012 - 2013Gender Based Violence and HIV: Assessing Mental Health Care Needs in Kenya
      UCSF2011 - 2014KL2 BIRCWH Award
      UCSF Global Health Sciences2009 - 2013UCSF Global Health Sciences Burke Faculty Scholar
      UCSF-RAP2009 - 2012RCT of Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Sichuan Earthquake Survivors
      UCSF-RAP2008 - 2009RCT of Interpersonal Therapy for Sudanese Refugees in Cairo

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      Susan M. Meffert M.D., M.P.H. is an Assistant Professor in the UCSF Department of Psychiatry, UCSF Global Health Sciences Faculty Burke Scholar, UCSF Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health (BIRCWH) K awardee scholar and a University of California Global Health Institute Awardee.

      Dr. Meffert has been working in the field of global mental health since 1998. She began clinical research in 2004 during psychiatric residency at UCSF, returning to East Africa to work with Darfur refugees. Dr. Meffert is interested in how violence and trauma replicate across survivors’ lives, families and communities by creating emotional disorders that impact interpersonal relationships and put close contacts at risk of mental health disorders. She completed a successful pilot RCT of Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) for depression and Posttraumatic Stress (PTSD) symptoms among Darfur refugees in Cairo with treatment delivered by community members and an RCT of IPT in China with survivors of the Sichuan earthquake in which treatment is delivered by local paraprofessionals.

      Through her research, Dr. Meffert became interested in the strong associations between violence, trauma and HIV among women in low resource settings. Dr. Meffert is currently collaborating with the UCSF Family AIDS Care and Education Services (FACES) PEPFAR funded program based in Kisumu, Kenya to assess mental health trauma care needs among HIV+ women affected by Gender-Based Violence (GBV) and develop an adapted and sustainable intervention delivered by local providers to address mental health care needs and associated adherence difficulties.

       Interests
      Implementation Science, Persons with mental illness, Migrants/refugees, Community-based organization, International (medical), Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Depression, Interpersonal violence, mass trauma: political violence and disaster settings, Interdisciplinary research collaboration, Brief implementation science training courses, Works-in-progress seminars, Implementation & dissemination science listservs


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      1. Meffert, SM; Abdo, AO; Alla, OA; Elmakki, YO; Omer, AA; Yousif, S; Metzler, TJ; Marmar, CR . Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy. Sudanese Refugees in Cairo, Egypt: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Trauma, Depression and Interpersonal Violence. 2011; 2(3).
      2. Meffert SM, Musalo K, Abdo AO, Alla OA, Elmakki YO, Omer AA, Yousif S, Metzler TJ, Marmar CR. Feelings of betrayal by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and emotionally distressed Sudanese refugees in Cairo. Med Confl Surviv. 2010 Apr-Jun; 26(2):160-72.
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      3. Meffert SM, Musalo K, McNiel DE, Binder RL. The role of mental health professionals in political asylum processing. J Am Acad Psychiatry Law. 2010; 38(4):479-89.
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      4. Meffert SM, Marmar CR. Darfur refugees in Cairo: mental health and interpersonal conflict in the aftermath of genocide. J Interpers Violence. 2009 Nov; 24(11):1835-48.
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      5. Meffert SM, Metzler TJ, Henn-Haase C, McCaslin S, Inslicht S, Chemtob C, Neylan T, Marmar CR. A prospective study of trait anger and PTSD symptoms in police. J Trauma Stress. 2008 Aug; 21(4):410-6.
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