Grace Ryan
As of October 2015, Grace is a new co-lead of the MHIN team at the Centre for Global Mental Health. Grace served as MHIN's Knowledge Synthesis Officer from 2013-2014, focused on collating key information and resources on innovations in global mental health, before transitioning to a Knowledge Uptake role, working more actively in evaluation and stakeholder engagement. She is a PhD candidate in the Department of Epidemiology and Population Health at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, studying methods for evaluating community mental health programmes in sub-Saharan Africa. Grace was one of the first students to graduate from the Centre for Global Mental Health's new Global Mental Health MSc. Before coming to London, she worked on a health services research team in a community health program in rural Rwanda. She has also conducted ethnographic research on mental health advocacy in Ghana and formative research on the development of monitoring and evaluation tools for a community mental health program in Nigeria.