Africa Initiative

Dr. Alethea Desrosiers is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior in the Warren Alpert Medical School. Her research focuses on promoting global mental health, with particular emphasis on underserved youth and families. Dr. Desrosiers uses implementation science to improve the quality and accessibility of interventions in settings with limited mental health resources. Her tools include human-centered design, task-sharing strategies, and digital innovations. She has projects throughout the Global South, including in Sierra Leone, Colombia, and Ecuador. Dr. Desrosiers is also a faculty member in the Brown Research on Implementation and Dissemination to Guide Evidence Use (BRIDGE) Program and the Center for Global Health Equity. She earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Columbia University and completed a T32 postdoctoral fellowship in Substance Abuse Prevention Research at Yale School of Medicine prior to joining Brown. Her work has been published in numerous leading journals including BMC Public Health, Transcultural Psychiatry and the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.