Tag: Joy Baumgartner

Empowerment is increasingly being recognized as an important outcome of psychosocial interventions. As low-resource settings move to address the treatment and social service gap for people living with schizophrenia (PLWS), interventions can monitor impacts on empowerment. A new study, conducted by Joy Noel Baumgartner, PhD, MSSW, explores empowerment and associated...

KUPAA is a culturally adapted version of Family Psychoeducation (FPE) that has been shown to be beneficial to people living with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders (PLWS), who may experience limitations across multiple functional domains. The current study objective is to identify mechanisms by which the KUPAA intervention reduces disability and improves quality...

The Office of Fellowships and Training at the UNC Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases ensures educational and mentored research training and field experience for eligible masters, doctoral or post-doctoral candidates. Managed by Kristin Reed, MPH; Marla Allen, MPH; Dzidzai Muyengwa, MPH; and Benjamin Chi, MD, MSc, following is...