Molly Lasater, PhD ’18, MPH ’14, investigates the health impacts of climate change, migration and displacement, and violence in low-resource and humanitarian settings.

AS.280.380 Global Health Principles and Practices

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• Nguyen AJ, Lasater ME, Lee C, Mallawaarachchi IV, Joshua K, Bassett L, Gelsdorf K. Psychosocial support interventions in the context of forced displacement: A systematic review and meta-analysis. J Migr Health. 2023 Jan 30;7:100168. doi: 10.1016/j.jmh.2023.100168. PMID: 36816445; PMCID: PMC9932448.
• Lasater, M.E., Murray, S.M., Keita, M., Souko, F., Surkan, P.J., Warren, N.E., Winch, P.J., Ba, A., Doumbia, S. and Bass, J.K. (2021), Integrating Mental Health into Maternal Health Care in Rural Mali: A Qualitative Study. Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health, 66: 233-239. https://doi.org/10.1111/jmwh.13184
• Lasater, M. E., Beebe, M., Warren, N. E., Winch, P. J., Soucko, F., Keita, M., ... & Murray, S. M. (2022). Reliability and validity of a perinatal depression screening instrument in rural Mali. SSM-Mental Health, 100059.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmmh.2021.100059
• Lasater, M.E., Woldeyes, G.M., Le Roch, K. et al. Lessons learned evaluating the baby friendly spaces program for south Sudanese refugees in Gambella, Ethiopia: strengthening research and programmatic partnerships to address maternal and child health and psychosocial needs in humanitarian emergencies. Confl Health 14, 52 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13031-020-00299-5
• Lasater ME, Beebe M, Warren NE, Souko F, Keita M, Murray SM, Bass JK, Surkan PJ, Winch PJ. (2018). Dusukasi—The Heart That Cries: An Idiom of Mental Distress Among Perinatal Women in Rural Mali. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, 42(4), 930-945. DOI: 10.1007/s11013-018-9579-6. PMID: 29696491