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The Implementation Science Collaborative (ISC) champions and facilitates the use of data to improve health interventions, practices, programs, and policies in low and middle-income countries. CUNY (CIMH-CIRGH) serves in an anchor role within the ISC, particularly in advancing the mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) Learning Collaborative and MHPSS solutions for victims of torture and those living in emergency contexts.
With support from a strategic constellation of ISC partners, CUNY (CIMH-CIRGH) leads the MHPSS Learning Collaborative, which fosters joint learning, accelerates data liberation, and advance evidence advocacy and uptake of community-level MHPSS interventions through our MHPSS Learning Collaborative meetings, MHPSS Webinar series, the MHPSS Knowledge Hub and Intervention Database and strategic partnerships with maternal health and child protection experts within the ISC.
We brought together five study teams implementing psychosocial support interventions for displaced and conflict-affected populations.
We host a directory of experts in a wide range of disciplines and methodological areas from across our global network of collaborators
We maintain a list of upcoming webinars, conferences, and ISC learning collaborative meetings relating to a range of issues in mental health and psychosocial support
We maintain a list of upcoming funding opportunities relating to a range of topics in MHPSS and Violence Prevention
We host a database tracking available evidence from nearly 300 MHPSS interventions implemented in low-and middle-income countries.
We collaborate with a wide range of funding, technical, implementing, and academic partners from across the globe.
We maintain a collaborative platform for sharing and maintaining psychosocial and mental health resources and research materials
Established in 2020, the ISC MHPSS LC is a global network of practitioner and researcher pairings, policy-makers, donors and other stakeholders who regularly convene to share and consult the group on intervention studies, collaborate on evidence-to-use products, and consider emerging priorities.
Supported through USAID’s HEARD project, the ISC MHPSS LC aims to identify priorities informed by diverse stakeholders, link experts, identify opportunities for collaboration, and facilitate information exchange.
ISC MHPSS strategies include:
The LC is co-hosted by CUNY Graduate School of Public Health, Universidad de los Andes, The East, Central and Southern Africa Health Community (ECSA-HC), and HIAS. Click here to read previous LC meeting reports. If you would like to join our MHPSS Learning Collaborative, please reach out to francesca.mclaren@sph.cuny.edu
With support from USAID’s HEARD project, the ISC MHPSS Learning Collaborative is informing community-based mental health (CBMH) efforts through two complementary activities: (1) a global landscape analysis of relevant CBMH interventions and policies, and (2) support to rapid implementation studies of ongoing CBMH interventions. Collectively, the geographic focus spans Latin America, Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, and touches on parts of the Middle East region. ISC anchor partners together with an expanding network of new partners are at the helm and bolstered by the MHPSS Learning Collaborative.
What do we want to learn?
From the Landscape Analysis we will explore promising/innovative community-based approaches/interventions being implemented to address mental health across the life course; identify the actors in this space; and how the policy and strategy environment supports mental health investment and action. The handful of studies awarded through the previous RFA solicitation will investigate specific interventions currently being implemented and address questions about how they are improving mental health outcomes (e.g. service access, clinical outcomes); and consider how these interventions rate on key implementation factors (e.g. acceptability, scalability, sustainability, adaptability).
