BRIDGE-Mental Health, Building Research, Implementation and Development in Global Mental Health, is a research leadership program that prepares Kenyan investigators to lead global mental health research in Kenya. Participants include experienced research staff and early-career Kenyan psychiatrists beginning their own lines of work.
What the program builds
The program develops the skills that leading a study requires, among them study design, grant writing, data analysis, and publishing. Participants take graduate-level global mental health courses and didactic trainings, and the funding buys them protected time on active research projects, where they take on senior responsibilities and lead new components of the work. It also supports applications for higher degrees, including doctorates, for those pursuing principal investigator status and their own research questions.
The network
Participants build relationships across the AMPATH consortium, which links Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital with universities in North America, forming the network of mentors and peers from which future grants and collaborations grow. The program is supported by the Duke Global Health Institute as part of its commitment to building lasting partnerships and research capacity at the institutions where Duke works.