Research
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Latest papers
Adverse childhood experiences and common mental disorders among young people in Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study using WHO ACE-IQ.
BMJ open · 2025
Reimagining global mental health in Africa
BMJ Global Health · 2023
Feasibility and acceptability of brief individual interpersonal psychotherapy among university students with mental distress in Ethiopia.
BMC psychology · 2021
Latest funding
- $24,940
Improving Healthcare Delivery by Improving Health Providers' Knowledge of Interpersonal Trauma
CIHR · 2011 · Co-investigator
10 publications.
Adverse childhood experiences and common mental disorders among young people in Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study using WHO ACE-IQ.
Gezahegn Y, Worku B, Pain C, Mihretu A
Reimagining global mental health in Africa
Dawit Wondimagegn, Clare E. Pain, Nardos Seifu, Carrie Cartmill, Azeb Asaminew Alemu, Cynthia Ruth Whitehead
Feasibility and acceptability of brief individual interpersonal psychotherapy among university students with mental distress in Ethiopia.
Negash A, Khan MA, Medhin G, Wondimagegn D, Pain C, Araya M
Explanatory Models for Mental Distress Among University Students in Ethiopia: A Qualitative Study.
Negash A, Ahmed M, Medhin G, Wondimagegn D, Pain C, Araya M
Toronto Addis Ababa Academic Collaboration: A Relational, Partnership Model for Building Educational Capacity Between a High- and Low-Income University.
Wondimagegn D, Pain C, Baheretibeb Y, Hodges B, Wakma M, Rose M, Sherif A, Piliotis G, Tsegaye A, Whitehead C
Advancing methods for health priority setting practice through the contribution of systems theory: Lessons from a case study in Ethiopia.
Petricca K, Bekele A, Berta W, Gibson J, Pain C
Partnering with local scientists should be mandatory.
Shuchman M, Wondimagegn D, Pain C, Alem A
Psychotherapy Knowledge Translation and Interpersonal Psychotherapy: Using Best-Education Practices to Transform Mental Health Care in Canada and Ethiopia.
Ravitz P, Wondimagegn D, Pain C, Araya M, Alem A, Baheretibeb Y, Hanlon C, Fekadu A, Park J, Fefergrad M, Leszcz M
Establishing a surgical partnership between Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and Toronto, Canada.
Cadotte DW, Blankstein M, Bekele A, Dessalegn S, Pain C, Derbew M, Bernstein M, Howard A
Posttraumatic Personality Disorder: A Reformulation of Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder
Catherine C. Classen, Clare E. Pain, Nigel P. Field, Patricia A. Woods
Improving Healthcare Delivery by Improving Health Providers' Knowledge of Interpersonal Trauma
Principal investigators: Classen, Catherine C
Keywords: Interpersonal Trauma; Trauma-Informed Care; Violence
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
Frequent collaborators
- Cynthia Whitehead and Brian Hodges: 5 shared papers
- Mark Fefergrad and Paula Ravitz: 3 shared papers
- Paula Ravitz and Molyn Leszcz: 3 shared papers
- Cynthia Whitehead and Clare Pain: 2 shared papers
- Mark Fefergrad and Molyn Leszcz: 2 shared papers
- Catherine Classen and Clare Pain: 1 shared paper
- Jennifer Gibson and Whitney Berta: 1 shared paper
- Jennifer Gibson and Andrew Howard: 1 shared paper
- Jennifer Gibson and Clare Pain: 1 shared paper
- Cynthia Whitehead and Mark Fefergrad: 1 shared paper
- Whitney Berta and Clare Pain: 1 shared paper
- Andrew Howard and Mark Bernstein: 1 shared paper
- Andrew Howard and Clare Pain: 1 shared paper
- Mark Bernstein and Clare Pain: 1 shared paper
- Mark Fefergrad and Clare Pain: 1 shared paper
- Miriam Shuchman and Clare Pain: 1 shared paper
- Brian Hodges and Clare Pain: 1 shared paper
- Paula Ravitz and Clare Pain: 1 shared paper
- Molyn Leszcz and Clare Pain: 1 shared paper
- Department of Psychiatry
- Clinical Public Health Division
- Department of Surgery
- Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation
Co-authors at University of Toronto, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Cynthia Whitehead
Clinical Public Health Division
2 shared papers, latest 2023
Jennifer Gibson
Clinical Public Health Division
1 shared papers, latest 2018
Whitney Berta
Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation
1 shared papers, latest 2018
Andrew Howard
Department of Surgery
1 shared papers, latest 2013
Mark Bernstein
Department of Surgery
1 shared papers, latest 2013
Mark Fefergrad
Department of Psychiatry
1 shared papers, latest 2014
Miriam Shuchman
Department of Psychiatry
1 shared papers, latest 2014
Brian Hodges
Department of Psychiatry
1 shared papers, latest 2018
Paula Ravitz
Department of Psychiatry
1 shared papers, latest 2014
Catherine Classen
Department of Psychiatry
1 shared papers, latest 2006
Molyn Leszcz
Department of Psychiatry
1 shared papers, latest 2014
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