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South Africa
2025

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Psychology

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1

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in South Africa Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in South Africa Leader Award

Overview

Crick Lund is affiliated with the University of Cape Town in South Africa. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, medicine, and health professions, with notable outputs in the subfields of general health professions, social psychology, clinical psychology, public health, environmental and occupational health, and pediatrics, perinatology, and child health.

The main topics of Crick Lund's work include mental health treatment and access, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum, global maternal and child health, health disparities and outcomes, employment and welfare studies, and family caregiving in mental illness.

They have published frequently in several academic venues, including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • PLoS ONE
  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • The Lancet Psychiatry

Among recent papers authored by Crick Lund or with their involvement are:

  • "Efficacy of psychosocial interventions for mental health outcomes in low-income and middle-income countries: an umbrella review" (2020, The Lancet Psychiatry)
  • "Psychiatric diagnosis and treatment in the 21st century: paradigm shifts versus incremental integration" (2022, World Psychiatry)
  • "Reducing mental illness stigma in healthcare settings: Proof of concept for a social contact intervention to address what matters most for primary care providers" (2020, Social Science & Medicine)
  • "Public mental health: required actions to address implementation failure in the context of COVID-19" (2022, The Lancet Psychiatry)
  • "The impact of cash transfers on mental health in children and young people in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis" (2021, BMJ Global Health)

Their frequent co-authors include Charlotte Hanlon, Mark J. D. Jordans, Graham Thornicroft, Inge Petersen, and Ricardo Araya, reflecting extensive collaboration in their fields of study.

Best Publications

  • The Lancet Commission on global mental health and sustainable development.

    Vikram Patel;Shekhar Saxena;Crick Lund;Crick Lund;Graham Thornicroft

  • Poverty and common mental disorders in low and middle income countries: A systematic review

    Crick Lund;Alison Breen;Alan J. Flisher;Ritsuko Kakuma

  • Poverty and mental disorders: breaking the cycle in low-income and middle-income countries

    Crick Lund;Mary De Silva;Sophie Plagerson;Sara Cooper

  • Social determinants of mental disorders and the Sustainable Development Goals: a systematic review of reviews

    Crick Lund;Crick Lund;Carrie Brooke-Sumner;Carrie Brooke-Sumner;Florence Baingana;Emily Claire Baron

  • Scale up services for mental disorders: a call for action.

    D Chisholm;A J Flisher;C Lund;V Patel

  • Addressing the burden of mental, neurological, and substance use disorders: key messages from Disease Control Priorities, 3rd edition

    Vikram Patel;Vikram Patel;Dan Chisholm;Rachana Parikh;Fiona J Charlson;Fiona J Charlson

  • Burden of non-communicable diseases in sub-Saharan Africa, 1990-2017: results from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017.

    Hebe N Gouda;Hebe N Gouda;Fiona Charlson;Katherine Sorsdahl;Sanam Ahmadzada;Sanam Ahmadzada

  • Theory of Change: a theory-driven approach to enhance the Medical Research Council's framework for complex interventions

    Mary J De Silva;Erica Breuer;Lucy Lee;Laura Asher

  • Socio-economic variations in the mental health treatment gap for people with anxiety, mood, and substance use disorders: results from the WHO World Mental Health (WMH) surveys

    S Evans-Lacko;S Aguilar-Gaxiola;A Al-Hamzawi;J Alonso

  • 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

  • Income inequality and depression: a systematic review and meta-analysis of the association and a scoping review of mechanisms.

    Vikram Patel;Jonathan K. Burns;Monisha Dhingra;Leslie Tarver

  • Accuracy of the PHQ-2 Alone and in Combination With the PHQ-9 for Screening to Detect Major Depression: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

    Brooke Levis;Brooke Levis;Ying Sun;Chen He;Yin Wu;Yin Wu

  • Using theory of change to design and evaluate public health interventions: a systematic review

    Erica Breuer;Lucy Lee;Mary De Silva;Crick Lund

  • 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

  • Suicide and poverty in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review.

    Valentina Iemmi;Jason Bantjes;Ernestina Coast;Kerrie Channer

  • Psychiatric diagnosis and treatment in the 21st century: paradigm shifts versus incremental integration

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  • 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

  • Validation of the 10-item Centre for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D-10) in Zulu, Xhosa and Afrikaans populations in South Africa.

    Emily Claire Baron;Thandi Davies;Crick Lund;Crick Lund

  • 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

  • Public sector mental health systems in South Africa: inter-provincial comparisons and policy implications

    Crick Lund;Sharon Kleintjes;Ritsuko Kakuma;Ritsuko Kakuma;Alan J. Flisher;Alan J. Flisher

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

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Charlotte Hanlon
Charlotte Hanlon King's College London
Inge Petersen
Inge Petersen University of KwaZulu-Natal
Vikram Patel
Vikram Patel Harvard University
Alan J. Flisher
Alan J. Flisher University of Cape Town
Abebaw Fekadu
Abebaw Fekadu Brighton and Sussex Medical School
Graham Thornicroft
Graham Thornicroft King's College London
Mark J. D. Jordans
Mark J. D. Jordans University of Amsterdam
Dan J. Stein
Dan J. Stein University of Cape Town
Arvin Bhana
Arvin Bhana University of KwaZulu-Natal
Martin Prince
Martin Prince King's College London

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