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Overview

Abebaw Fekadu is affiliated with Brighton and Sussex Medical School in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple domains within medicine and psychology, with a particular focus on mental health treatment, infectious diseases, and health systems.

Their recent publications cover a range of topics including digital health technologies, infectious disease control, antibacterial properties of medicinal plants, genetic variation detection, and depression under detection in low and middle-income countries. Notable papers include:

  • The potential use of digital health technologies in the African context: a systematic review of evidence from Ethiopia, 2021, npj Digital Medicine
  • Containment of COVID-19 in Ethiopia and implications for tuberculosis care and research, 2020, Infectious Diseases of Poverty
  • Antibacterial activity of methanol extracts of the leaves of three medicinal plants against selected bacteria isolated from wounds of lymphoedema patients, 2021, BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies
  • Low-coverage sequencing cost-effectively detects known and novel variation in underrepresented populations, 2021, The American Journal of Human Genetics
  • Under detection of depression in primary care settings in low and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis, 2022, Systematic Reviews

The scientist's frequent collaborators include Charlotte Hanlon, Girmay Medhin, Gail Davey, Tsegahun Manyazewal, and Yimtubezinash Woldeamanuel. These coauthors have contributed to wide-ranging studies in related themes.

Frequent publication venues where Abebaw Fekadu's work appears are:

  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • BMJ Open
  • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
  • BMC Psychiatry

Within the fields of study, the scientist's main areas are Medicine with 106 publications and Psychology with 71 publications. Subfields explored include:

  • General Health Professions
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Social Psychology
  • Psychiatry and Mental Health

Research topics covered extensively by Abebaw Fekadu include:

  • Mental Health Treatment and Access
  • Family Caregiving in Mental Illness
  • Parasitic Diseases Research and Treatment
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Schizophrenia Research and Treatment
  • Parasites and Host Interactions
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development

Best Publications

  • PRIME: A Programme to Reduce the Treatment Gap for Mental Disorders in Five Low- and Middle-Income Countries

    Crick Lund;Mark Tomlinson;Mark Tomlinson;Mary De Silva;Abebaw Fekadu

  • Perception of stigma among family members of individuals with schizophrenia and major affective disorders in rural Ethiopia.

    Teshome Shibre;Alemayehu Negash;Gunnar Kullgren;D Kebede

  • Acceptability and feasibility of using non-specialist health workers to deliver mental health care: stakeholder perceptions from the PRIME district sites in Ethiopia, India, Nepal, South Africa, and Uganda.

    Emily Mendenhall;Mary J. De Silva;Charlotte Hanlon;Inge Petersen

  • What happens to patients with treatment-resistant depression? A systematic review of medium to long term outcome studies

    Abebaw Fekadu;Sarah C. Wooderson;Kalypso Markopoulo;Catherine Donaldson

  • Challenges and opportunities for implementing integrated mental health care: a district level situation analysis from five low- and middle-income countries.

    Charlotte Hanlon;Nagendra P. Luitel;Tasneem Kathree;Vaibhav Murhar

  • A multidimensional tool to quantify treatment resistance in depression: the Maudsley staging method.

    Abebaw Fekadu;Sarah Wooderson;Catherine Donaldson;Kalypso Markopoulou

  • The path to longer and healthier lives for all Africans by 2030: the Lancet Commission on the future of health in sub-Saharan Africa.

    Irene Akua Agyepong;Nelson Sewankambo;Agnes Binagwaho;Awa Marie Coll-Seck

  • Stigma, explanatory models and unmet needs of caregivers of children with developmental disorders in a low-income African country: a cross-sectional facility-based survey.

    Dejene Tilahun;Dejene Tilahun;Charlotte Hanlon;Charlotte Hanlon;Abebaw Fekadu;Abebaw Fekadu;Bethlehem Tekola

  • The impact of childhood adversity on suicidality and clinical course in treatment-resistant depression

    Catherine Tunnard;Catherine Tunnard;Lena J. Rane;Lena J. Rane;Sarah C. Wooderson;Sarah C. Wooderson;Kalypso Markopoulou;Kalypso Markopoulou

  • Validity of brief screening questionnaires to detect depression in primary care in Ethiopia.

    Charlotte Hanlon;Charlotte Hanlon;Girmay Medhin;Medhin Selamu;Erica Breuer

  • Excess mortality in severe mental illness: 10-year population-based cohort study in rural Ethiopia.

    Abebaw Fekadu;Girmay Medhin;Derege Kebede;Atalay Alem

  • Internalized stigma among patients with schizophrenia in Ethiopia: a cross-sectional facility-based study.

    Dereje Assefa;Teshome Shibre;Laura Asher;Abebaw Fekadu;Abebaw Fekadu

  • Toxoplasmosis as a cause for behaviour disorders--overview of evidence and mechanisms.

    Abebaw Fekadu;Teshome Shibre;Anthony J. Cleare

  • Clinical Course and Outcome of Schizophrenia in a Predominantly Treatment-Naive Cohort in Rural Ethiopia

    Atalay Alem;Derege Kebede;Abebaw Fekadu;Teshome Shibre

  • Development of a scalable mental healthcare plan for a rural district in Ethiopia

    Abebaw Fekadu;Charlotte Hanlon;Girmay Medhin;Atalay Alem

  • Onset and clinical course of schizophrenia in Butajira-Ethiopia--a community-based study.

    D. Kebede;A. Alem;T. Shibre;A. Negash

  • Population level mental distress in rural Ethiopia

    Abebaw Fekadu;Abebaw Fekadu;Girmay Medhin;Medhin Selamu;Maji Hailemariam

  • The potential use of digital health technologies in the African context: a systematic review of evidence from Ethiopia.

    Tsegahun Manyazewal;Yimtubezinash Woldeamanuel;Henry M Blumberg;Abebaw Fekadu

  • Schizophrenia: illness impact on family members in a traditional society – rural Ethiopia

    T. Shibre;D. Kebede;A. Alem;A. Negash

  • Generating evidence to narrow the treatment gap for mental disorders in sub-Saharan Africa: Rationale, overview and methods of AFFIRM

    C. Lund;A. Alem;M. Schneider;Charlotte Hanlon

  • Suicidal ideation and behaviour among community and health care seeking populations in five low- and middle-income countries: a cross-sectional study.

    M. Jordans;S. Rathod;A. Fekadu;G. Medhin

  • The Maudsley Staging Method for treatment-resistant depression: prediction of longer-term outcome and persistence of symptoms.

    Abebaw Fekadu;Sarah C. Wooderson;Kalypso Markopoulou;Anthony J. Cleare

Frequent Co-Authors

Charlotte Hanlon
Charlotte Hanlon King's College London
Crick Lund
Crick Lund University of Cape Town
Anthony J. Cleare
Anthony J. Cleare King's College London
Inge Petersen
Inge Petersen University of KwaZulu-Natal
Mark Tomlinson
Mark Tomlinson Queen's University Belfast
Mario Francisco Juruena
Mario Francisco Juruena King's College London
Asrat Hailu
Asrat Hailu Addis Ababa University
Rosa A. Hoekstra
Rosa A. Hoekstra King's College London
Arvin Bhana
Arvin Bhana University of KwaZulu-Natal
Andrew Papadopoulos
Andrew Papadopoulos King's College London

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