Profile
**On leave Fall 2025**
Adam Brown is Professor of Psychologyat 鶹ýɫƬ for Social Reserach. He has extensive experience developing programs to promotementalhealthawareness, providing trainings, technical guidance, and support in the creation, implementation, and evaluation of scalable, evidence-based strategies that can delivered in a wide range of contexts by non-specialists.
Head of the and the Global Mental Health graduate minor, Dr. Brown focuses his research on the adaptation ofmentalhealth and psychosocialinterventions that can be delivered globally by non-mentalhealthprofessionals, and works closely withcross-sectorpartners to carry out this work. Additionally, he has extensive experience in the study of traumatic stress and the identification of factors that contribute tomentalhealthrisks and resilience.
He has served as a consultant for organizations such as the United Nations, UNICEF, and Amnesty International. He is the recipient of grants from the National Institute ofHealth, USAID, Fulbright, and numerous private foundations.His work has appeared in numerous peer-reviewed journals and as book chapters.
Degrees Held
PhD 2008, 鶹ýɫƬ for Social Research
MA 2004, 鶹ýɫƬ for Social Research
BA 1999, University of Oregon
Professional Affiliation
Association for Psychological Science
International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies
Society of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition
Skate Mind Project
Recent Publications
Selected Publications:
Kohrt, B....Brown, A. (2025). Expanding the non-clinical mental health workforce: Protocol for a cluster randomized trial of a psychological intervention delivered by community based organizations in New York City (RECOUP-NY).Psychiatric Research and Clinical Practice.
Greene, M.C....Brown, A. (2024). Comparing implementatio strategies for training and supervisign non-specialists in Group Problem Management Plus:A hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial in Colombia.Global Mental Health.
Sangraula, M.....Brown, A., & Kohrt, B. (2024). The impact of task-sharing scalable mental health interventions on non-specialist providers. A Scoping Review.Global Mental Health.
Rhode, J...Brown, A., & Kleim, B. (2024). Efficacy of digitial self-ffficacy training in stressed university students. A randomized control trial.Plos One.
Pedersen, G., Pfeffer, K., Brown, A., Carswell, K., Schafer, A., Willhoite, A., & Kohrt, B. (2022). Identifying core competencies for remote delivery of psychological interventions: A rapid review.Psychiatric Services
Heyen, J.M., Weigl, N., Müller, M., Müller, S., Eberle, U., Manoliu, A.,Vetter, S., Brown, A., Berger, T., & Kleim, B. (2021). A multi-module web-based COVID-19 Anxiety and Stress Resilience Training (COAST): Single cohort feasibility study in first responders.Journal of Medical Internet Research.
Rahman, N., & Brown, A. (2021). Mental Time Travel in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Current Gaps and Future Directions.Frontiers in Psychology.
McBride, K.A., Harrison, S., Mahata, S., Pfeffer, K., Cardamone, F., Ngigi, T., Kohrt, B.A., Pedersen, G. A., Greene, M.C., Viljoen, D., Muneghina, O., & Brown, A. (2021). Adapting Problem Management Plus (PM+) during COVID-19 in New York City, Europe and East Africa.Intervention.
Paersch, C., Schulz, A., Wilhelm, F. H., Brown, A. D., & Kleim, B. (2021). Recalling Autobiographical Self-Efficacy Episodes Boosts Reappraisal-Effects on Negative Emotional Memories.Emotion.
Marmar, C. R., Brown, A. D., Qian, M., Laska, E., Siegel, C., Li, M., Abu-Amara, D., Tsiartas, T., Richey, C., Smith, J., Knoth, B., & Vergyri, D. (2019). Speech‐based markers for posttraumatic stress disorder in US veterans.Depression and Anxiety, 36, 607-616.
Brown, A. D., Schultebraucks, K., Qian, M., Li, M., Horesh, D., Siegel, C., Brody, Y., Amer, A., Lev-Ari, R., Mas, F., Marmar, C. R., & Farmer, J. (2020). Mental health disorders and utilization of mental healthcare services in United Nations personnel.Global Mental Health, 7
Bagrodia,R., Knuckey, S.. Satterthwaite, M., Singh Sawhney, R., & Brown, A. (2018).Crucial need to improve mental health research and training for human rights advocates.Lancet: Psychiatry.
Krans, J., Peeters, M., Näring, G., Brown, A., de Bree, J., & van Minnen, A. (2018).Examining temporal alterations in Social Anxiety Disorder and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: The relation between autobiographical memory, future goals, and current self-descriptions.Journal of Anxiety Disorders. .
Rodin, R., Bonanno, G., Rahman, N., Kouri, N., Bryant, R.A., Marmar, C., & Brown, A. (2017).Expressive flexibility in combat veterans with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Depression.Journal of Affective Disorders, 207, 236-241.
Brown, A., Kouri, N., Rahman, N., Jocelyne, A., Bryant, R., & Marmar, C. (2016).Enhancing self-efficacy improves episodic future thinking and social decision making in combat veterans with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.Psychiatry Research.
Joscelyne, A., Knuckey, S., Satterthwaite, M., Li, M., Qian, M., Bryant, R.A., & Brown, A.D. (2015).Mental health functioning in the human rights field: Findings from an international internet-based survey.PLOS One.
Additional Writing
"Remembering and Forgetting in Transit: The Interplay between Physical Spaces and Memory and Identity," EuropeNow, 2021.
, 2021, India China Institute,Pandemic Discourse
","EuropeNow, October 29, 2019.
"Translating Socio-Cognitive Models of Agency into Migration and Mental Health: A Framework for Individual and Community Empowerment,"EuropeNow, October 29, 2019.
Performances and Appearances
Selected Media Appearance
NPR coverage of
Quoted in "," Dallas Morning News
Featured in "Revolutionizing Care Through New Design Dialogues" Re:D, Spring 2021
Appearance on the BBC World Newsdiscussing Simone Biles’ decision toremove herself from the Tokyo Olympics
Featured in "COVID-19’s Lasting Effects on Mental Health for Good and Bad," Wall Street Journal, March 8 2021
Appearance on the BBC World Newsdiscussing mental health impacts of COVID-19 globally
Interviewed on Khan Academy about staying resilient during COVID-19, May 12, 2020
Quoted in "," The Economist, February 24, 2020.
""Research Matters, October 22, 2018.
Research Interests
global mental health, capacity building, implementation science, scalable interventions, digital tools, forced displacement, emergency and humanitarian responses, trauma, resilience, memory
Awards And Honors
Association for Psychological Science Fellow, 2023
Fulbright Specialist Scholar, University of Bahamas-North,2022 ()
Fulbright Specialist Scholar, University of Bern, 2017 &2018
Fulbright Senior Scholar, University of New South Wales, 2010