Moses Kachama Nyongesa
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Global Mental Health
Dr. Moses Kachama is an Early Career Research Fellow in Global Mental Health (GMH) at BMI. He also has an academic appointment as Visiting Research Fellow in Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. His expertise is in psychiatric epidemiology, validation of mental health measures and implementation science research. He holds an MSc in GMH (University of London) and a PhD in the same field (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam).
Moses has previously worked at Aga Khan University’s Institute for Human Development, Nairobi, Kenya, where he coordinated an NIH funded data science research called UZIMA-DS (UtiliZe health Information for Meaningful impact in East Africa through Data Science), as a senior project manager. Prior to joining the Aga Khan University, he worked at KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme and as a part-time instructor at Pwani University, both in Kilifi, Kenya.
Over the past 10 years, Dr. Moses Kachama has accumulated experience in the design and implementation of health research studies mostly in Kenya, but also in other African countries like Tanzania, Malawi, and Zambia through collaborative research. His specific research interests and contributions are in youth mental health, the intersection between HIV and mental health and co-designing and evaluation of psychosocial and psychological interventions with communities in resource constrained settings. His most recently completed project involved the adaptation, contextualization, and evaluation of distance delivery of WHO’s Problem Management Plus (PM+) intervention by trained non-mental health providers targeting young people living with HIV and experiencing common mental health disorders at the Kenyan coast. He was the lead researcher for the project. He is currently collaborating in evaluations of PM+ in other population groups in Kenya. A complete list of his published work can be found here.
Outside of research, Moses enjoys playing soccer, running, gardening, and volunteering in community social responsibility programs.
