We Use Science to Improve Community Health
 

The Global and Community Mental Health Research Group is focused on understanding what influences community health. We define health holistically to include mental, physical, sexual and social functioning. Our team and our approaches are interdisciplinary in nature and we welcome multiple perspectives and solutions to community health challenges.

We are engaged in population-level epidemiological research and mixed methods research in Macau and Mainland China within migrant and local communities.

The research group investigates the personal, ecological and spatial determinants that contribute to the risk of ill health. We are primarily interested in understanding the effects of stressful life experiences and situations as contributors to health.

 

 

 

COMPASS: Asia is home to large and diverse populations of migrants. COMPASS is one of two major research programs of the Global and Community Mental Health Research Group. This program is focused on population-level research, intervention adaptation, development, and evaluation, and policy development to address the health issues experienced by migrants across Asia. The populations we work with are Chinese migrants and their families, and Filipino, Vietnamese and Indonesian transnational migrants.

Guangzhou Health Study: This study, funded by the Fogarty International Center of the National Institute of Health (USA) is a population representative spatial epidemiological study of mental health, sexual health, and general health.

 

 

PRIDE: This multiple year mixed methods research initiative aims to characterize the population-level determinants of health for domestic helpers in the Pearl River Delta, including migrants from Philippines, Indonesia, and Vietnam.

 

 

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