Dr. Shabab Wahid is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Global Health, School of Health. A global mental health specialist, he is engaged in psychiatric and behavioral research primarily in low- and middle-income countries. His work spans three interconnected areas: (1) Examining the connection between between climate change and mental health and salient mediating pathways using longitudinal national panel datasets; (2) Understanding cultural models of ethnopsychology, idioms of distress, and the lived experience of mental illness using qualitative methodology; and (3) development, cultural adaptation, and evaluation of community-based mental health and stigma reduction interventions through feasibility and effectiveness clinical trials. He has conducted research in Kenya, Senegal, China, Ethiopia, India, Nepal, Tunisia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Nepal, Nigeria, Sri Lanka, Ukraine, the United States and the UK. His complete portfolio of research projects can be accessed here .
Dr. Wahid serves on the Advisory Board of the Global Mental Health & Well-Being Initiative at Georgetown University, an interdisciplinary coalition of faculty, staff and students at Georgetown University to conduct research, develop pedagogy, and engage in informed activism and advocacy to improve mental well-being and psychosocial outcomes locally, nationally, and globally.
Dr. Wahid’s work has been published in The Lancet Planetary Health , Nature Mental Health , Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ; The Lancet ; Journal of Affective Disorders ; Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry ; among other leading scientific journals, and has been featured in media outlets such as TIME Magazine and BBC World Service Radio . He received his Doctor of Public Health and Master of Public Health degrees from the Milken Institute School of Public Health, at George Washington University, Washington DC.
Academic Appointment(s)
- Primary
- Assistant Professor, SOH - Global Health Academic Department