Irene Brandt
Scientific Project Manager
Research interests include adolescent health, adolescent mental health, perinatal and postpartum depression and anxiety, survey design, evaluation design (quasi-experimental, mixed methods, qualitative), grant writing, report and publication visuals and user friendly design, innovative communication to reach a wider audience (social media for recruitment and information dissemination), and applied research projects.
Education
In Progress - Dr. rer. medic. (Doctor of Medical Science) | Department of Psychiatry and Neurosciences, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
Doctoral Project Title: Effectiveness of a comic book intervention in increasing knowledge of mental health literacy for adolescents and youth in Sub-Saharan Africa: A randomized control trial
Advisors: Prof. Dr. Shuyan Liu (Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin) & Prof. Dr. Dr. Till Bärnighausen (Heidelberg Institute of Global Health)
2013-2015: Masters in Applied Social Psychology | Co-Concentration in Evaluation
Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California
2007-2011: Bachelors in Psychology | Torrey Honors Institute, Scholar’s Semester in Oxford, Biola University, La Mirada, California
Contributions
Projects & Grants
ARISE-NUTRINT (REDUCING NUTRITION-RELATED NONCOMMUNICABLE DISEASES IN ADOLESCENCE AND YOUTH: INTERVENTIONS AND POLICIES TO BOOST NUTRITION FLUENCY AND DIET QUALITY IN AFRICA) funded by the European Commission, 2023-2027, www.arise-nutrint.eu
DASH (RESEARCH NETWORK FOR DESIGN AND EVALUATION OF ADOLESCENT HEALTH INTERVENTIONS AND POLICIES IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA) funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), 2023-2028, www.dash-rhissa.org
Publications
Kurniawan, A.L., Ostojic, S., Shinde, S., Laxy, M., Neumann, C., Berhane, H., Berhane, Y., Hoe, C.H., Liu, S., Brandt, I. and Guwatudde, D. (2024) Enhancing Adolescent and Youth Health Through Nutrition Fluency in Sub-Saharan Africa: ARISE-NUTRINT Initiative. Perspectives in Public Health, 144(4), 215-218.
Chan, B., Gean. E., Arkhipova-Jenkins, I., Gilbert, J., Hilgart, J., Fiordalisi, C., Hubbard, K., Brandt, I., Stoeger, E., Paynter, R., Korthuis P. T., Guise, J. (2020). Retention Strategies for Medications for Opioid Use Disorder in Adults: A Rapid Evidence Review. The Journal of Addiction Medicine, 15(1), 74–84. doi: 10.1097/ADM.0000000000000739
Graham, L. E., Thomson, A. L., Nakamura, J., Brandt, I. A., & Siegel, J. T. (2017). Finding a family: A categorization of enjoyable emotions. The Journal of Positive Psychology, 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1080/17439760.2017.1402074