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Charlotte Hanlon is affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans several intersecting fields within psychology, medicine, and health professions, with a particularly strong focus on mental health. The subfields that characterize their work include clinical psychology, general health professions, social psychology, psychiatry and mental health, and pediatrics, perinatology, and child health.

Their research topics primarily center around mental health treatment and access, global maternal and child health, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, health policy implementation science, family caregiving in mental illness, maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum, and mental health and patient involvement.

Charlotte Hanlon has contributed to numerous scholarly articles, with notable recent papers including:

  • COVID-19 mental health impact and responses in low-income and middle-income countries: reimagining global mental health (2021) published in The Lancet Psychiatry
  • The Lancet Commission on ending stigma and discrimination in mental health (2022) published in The Lancet
  • Efficacy of psychosocial interventions for mental health outcomes in low-income and middle-income countries: an umbrella review (2020) published in The Lancet Psychiatry
  • Efficacy of interventions to reduce coercive treatment in mental health services: umbrella review of randomised evidence (2020) published in The British Journal of Psychiatry
  • Acute psychiatric care: approaches to increasing the range of services and improving access and quality of care (2022) published in World Psychiatry

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Abebaw Fekadu
  • Girmay Medhin
  • Atalay Alem
  • Graham Thornicroft
  • Martin Prince

Their work is frequently published in venues such as:

  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • PLoS ONE
  • International Journal of Mental Health Systems
  • The Lancet Psychiatry

Best Publications

  • COVID-19 mental health impact and responses in low-income and middle-income countries: reimagining global mental health.

    Lola Kola;Lola Kola;Brandon A Kohrt;Charlotte Hanlon;Charlotte Hanlon;John A Naslund

  • 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

  • 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

  • WPA guidance on steps, obstacles and mistakes to avoid in the implementation of community mental health care.

    Graham Thornicroft;Atalay Alem;Rnato Antunes Dos Santos;Elizabeth Barley

  • 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

  • Efficacy of psychosocial interventions for mental health outcomes in low-income and middle-income countries: an umbrella review.

    Corrado Barbui;Marianna Purgato;Jibril Abdulmalik;Ceren Acarturk

  • Detecting perinatal common mental disorders in Ethiopia : validation of the self-reporting questionnaire and Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale.

    Charlotte Hanlon;Girmay Medhin;Atalay Alem;Mesfin Araya

  • Strengthening mental health systems in low- and middle-income countries: the Emerald programme

    Maya Semrau;Sara Evans-Lacko;Atalay Alem;Jose Luis Ayuso-Mateos

  • Strengthening mental health system governance in six low- and middle-income countries in Africa and South Asia: challenges, needs and potential strategies.

    Inge Petersen;Debbie Marais;Jibril Abdulmalik;Shalini Ahuja

  • 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

  • Detecting postnatal common mental disorders in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Validation of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale and Kessler Scales

    Markos Tesfaye;Charlotte Hanlon;Dawit Wondimagegn;Atalay Alem

  • Prevalence and predictors of undernutrition among infants aged six and twelve months in Butajira, Ethiopia: The P-MaMiE Birth Cohort

    Girmay Medhin;Charlotte Hanlon;Charlotte Hanlon;Michael Dewey;Atalay Alem

  • Service user and caregiver involvement in mental health system strengthening in low- and middle-income countries: systematic review

    Maya Semrau;Heidi Lempp;Roxanne Keynejad;Sara Evans-Lacko

  • Mental health care in Nepal: current situation and challenges for development of a district mental health care plan

    Nagendra P. Luitel;Mark J D Jordans;Anup Adhikari;Nawaraj Upadhaya

  • Maternal mental health in primary care in five low- and middle-income countries: a situational analysis.

    Emily C. Baron;Charlotte Hanlon;Charlotte Hanlon;Sumaya Mall;Simone Honikman

  • Impact of antenatal common mental disorders upon perinatal outcomes in Ethiopia: the P-MaMiE population-based cohort study

    Charlotte Hanlon;Charlotte Hanlon;Girmay Medhin;Atalay Alem;Fikru Tesfaye

  • 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

  • Acute psychiatric care: approaches to increasing the range of services and improving access and quality of care

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  • Lessons learned in developing community mental health care in Africa

    Charlotte Hanlon;Dawit Wondimagegn;Atalay Alem

  • Arginine residues at codons 112 and 158 in the apolipoprotein E gene correspond to the ancestral state in humans

    Charlotte S. Hanlon;David C. Rubinsztein

Frequent Co-Authors

Abebaw Fekadu
Abebaw Fekadu Brighton and Sussex Medical School
Crick Lund
Crick Lund University of Cape Town
Inge Petersen
Inge Petersen University of KwaZulu-Natal
Mark Tomlinson
Mark Tomlinson Queen's University Belfast
Rosa A. Hoekstra
Rosa A. Hoekstra King's College London
Arvin Bhana
Arvin Bhana University of KwaZulu-Natal
Bronwyn Myers
Bronwyn Myers South African Medical Research Council
Brandon A. Kohrt
Brandon A. Kohrt George Washington University
Lawrence S. Wissow
Lawrence S. Wissow University of Washington
Anthony J. Cleare
Anthony J. Cleare King's College London

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