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Nicole Votruba
Senior Postdoctoral Researcher in Implementation Science
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Global Women's Mental Health Group
Dr Nicole Votruba is the PI of the SMARThealth Perinatal Mental Health (PRAMH) project, a multi-phase study (funded by the Medical Research Council UK) designing and evaluating community-based mental health care for women during preganncy and in the first year after birth. She is also leading the process evaluation of the SMARThealth Pregnancy programme (PI Prof Jane Hirst). She is co-coordinator of the Indigo Local study, a global programme to reduce stigma and discrimination in mental health. She is interested in global mental health, women's mental health, reducing health inequity, implementation science, stigma/discrimination, science-policy inter-relationships.
Before joining NDWRH, Nicole was working with Professor Sir Graham Thornicroft at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s College London, where she coordinated several global mental health research studies, including the Emilia programme and the Emerald programme. She was policy officer of the UK All-Party Parliamentary Group on Global Health, working with Lord Nigel Crisp, and coordinated FundaMentalSDG, a global initiative successfully contributing to the inclusion of mental health in the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Nicole is a psychologist and political scientist. In her PhD, she investigated mental health science-policy interrelationships and policy priority setting in low- and middle-income countries, and developed the EVITA 2.0 action framework to improve evidence-based mental health policymaking.
Nicole is a junior research fellow at Wolfson College. She is a research fellow with The George Institute for Global Health UK at Imperial College. She is executive secretary of the NGO Mental Health in Human Rights FGIP.
Recent publications
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Experience of primary healthcare workers in using the mobile app-based WHO mhGAP intervention guide in detection and treatment of people with mental disorders: A qualitative study in Nepal
Journal article
Luitel NP. et al, (2023), SSM - Mental Health, 4
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A community-based intervention to improve screening, referral and follow-up of non-communicable diseases and anaemia amongst pregnant and postpartum women in rural India: study protocol for a cluster randomised trial.
Journal article
Hirst JE. et al, (2023), Trials, 24
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SMARThealth PRegnancy And Mental Health study: protocol for a situational analysis of perinatal mental health in women living in rural India
Journal article
Votruba N. and HIRST J., (2023), Frontiers in Global Women's Health
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A community-based intervention to improve screening, referral, and follow-up of non-communicable diseases and anaemia amongst pregnant and postpartum women in rural India: study protocol for a cluster randomised trial
Preprint
Hirst JE. et al, (2023)
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Providing immediate digital mental health interventions and psychotrauma support during political crises.
Journal article
Javakhishvili J. et al, (2023), Lancet Psychiatry