Dr Florence Baingana has extensive knowledge and skills in mental health policy and services. She has combined Masters level training in psychiatry, and health policy, planning and financing. Dr Baingana combines this with over ten years of mental health policy and planning work, beginning in the Uganda Ministry of Health of Uganda in 1996, where she established the Mental Health Division. She then joined the World Bank in 2000 as one of the first Public Health Specialists (Mental Health), and worked with World Bank Staff and client country partners to develop mental health components. This role also included supervising and providing support to research projects, as well as knowledge management. Dr Baingana organized workshops and training sessions on mental health for World Bank staff. Since 2007, Dr Baingana has been with Makerere University School of Public Health, lecturing, working as a mentor for the CDC/MakSPH HIV/AIDS Fellowship Programme, and supervising MPH dissertations. Dr Baingana successfully applied for a Wellcome Trust Masters and Research Fellowship Grant that supported her undertaking the MSc in Health Policy, Planning and Financing. She also successfully applied for the Grand Challenges Mental Health Beyond Facilities project. She is Principal Investigator for this project, implemented in Uganda, Liberia and Nepal.
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| NAME: Florence Baingana | POSITION TITLE: Principal Investigator | |||
| INSTITUTION AND LOCATION | DEGREE (if applicable) | MM/YY | FIELD OF STUDY | |
| Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda | MBChB | 06/83 | Medicine and Surgery | |
| Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda | MMed (Psychiatry) | 06/90 | Psychiatry | |
| London School of Economics and Political Science and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London UK | MSc | 09/10 | Health Policy, Planning and Financing | |
Section B: a) Positions in the last ten years:
09/12-Date PI, Mental Health Beyond Facilities, a Grand Challenges Canada supported project (Canadian $2.78)
10/07-08/12 Wellcome Trust Research Fellow, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK and Makerere University School of Public Health, Kampala, Uganda
02/07-Date Research Fellow, Makerere University School of Public Health, Kampala, Uganda
2006-2006 Consultant, The World Bank, Washington DC, USA
2003-2006 Adjunct Professor, George Washington University, Washington DC, USA, Pro Bono
2002-2004 Senior Health Specialist, The World Bank, Washington DC, USA, funded by NIMH and CMHS, USA
2000-2002 Mental Health Specialist, The World Bank, Washington DC, USA, seconded by WFMH, funded by The MacArthur Foundation
Section C: Selected Peer-reviewed publications or manuscripts in press (five)
- Baingana F and Onyango PM, (2011) Scaling-up of mental health and trauma support among war-affected communities in northern Uganda: Lessons Learned. Interventions 9(3) 291-303
- Eaton J, McCay, L., Semrau, M., Chatterjee, S., Baingana, F., Araya, R., Ntulo, C., Thornicroft, G., Saxena, S. (2011) Scaling up services for mental health in Low and Middle Income Countries. Lancet online. DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(11)60891-X
- Baingana, F (2010) Mental Health Services in Uganda: 1999-2009 Analysis and Documentation of the Implementation of Integration of Mental Health into Primary Health Care. MSc Dissertation, Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, London,
- Baingana F Chapter 10 Developing Mental Health Programs in Low- and Middle- Income Countries in Parker R, and Sommer M (Editors) (2011) Routledge Handbook of Global Public Health Routledge, New York.
- Jenkins R, Baingana F, Ahmad R, McDaid D, Atun R. (2010) Mental Health and DFID’s Global Agenda on Health Systems, Access to Medicines, Governance and Human Rights- Identification of Key issues in Relation to Provision of Targeted Funding to Address Mental Health in Low and Middle Income Countries. Report prepared for DFID, London UK