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South Africa
2026

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Social Sciences and Humanities

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67
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10

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

Overview

Inge Petersen is affiliated with the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, health professions, and medicine, with significant contributions to general health professions, social psychology, clinical psychology, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, as well as public health, environmental and occupational health.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of issues, notably:

  • Mental Health Treatment and Access
  • Family Caregiving in Mental Illness
  • Health Policy Implementation Science
  • Mental Health and Patient Involvement
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Global Maternal and Child Health
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum

Inge Petersen has published research in several recurring venues, including:

  • Cambridge Prisms Global Mental Health
  • SSM - Mental Health
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences
  • BMJ Global Health

Frequent co-authors in their publications include:

  • Arvin Bhana
  • Lara Fairall
  • André Janse van Rensburg
  • Crick Lund
  • Max Bachmann

Their recent published papers include:

  • "Patient Health Questionnaire-9 scores do not accurately estimate depression prevalence: individual participant data meta-analysis" (2020, Journal of Clinical Epidemiology)
  • "Comorbidities between tuberculosis and common mental disorders: a scoping review of epidemiological patterns and person-centred care interventions from low-to-middle income and BRICS countries" (2020, Infectious Diseases of Poverty)
  • "The empirical evidence underpinning the concept and practice of person-centred care for serious illness: a systematic review" (2020, BMJ Global Health)
  • "Under detection of depression in primary care settings in low and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis" (2022, Systematic Reviews)
  • "Mental health stigma experiences among caregivers and service users in South Africa: a qualitative investigation" (2021, Current Psychology)

Best Publications

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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

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

  • Psychosocial challenges and protective influences for socio-emotional coping of HIV+ adolescents in South Africa: a qualitative investigation

    I Petersen;A Bhana;N Myeza;S Alicea

  • The VUKA family program: Piloting a family-based psychosocial intervention to promote health and mental health among HIV infected early adolescents in South Africa

    Arvin Bhana;Claude Ann Mellins;Inge Petersen;Stacey Alicea

  • Mental health service delivery in South Africa from 2000 to 2010: One step forward, one step back

    Inge Petersen;Crick Lund

  • 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

  • Sexual violence and youth in South Africa: the need for community-based prevention interventions.

    I. Petersen;Arvinkumar Bhana;Mary McKay

  • Collaboration between traditional practitioners and primary health care staff in South Africa: developing a workable partnership for community mental health services.

    Vicky Campbell-Hall;Inge Petersen;Arvin Bhana;Sithembile Mjadu

  • 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

  • The validity of the Patient Health Questionnaire for screening depression in chronic care patients in primary health care in South Africa

    Arvin Bhana;Sujit D Rathod;One Selohilwe;Tasneem Kathree

  • Mental Health Policy Development and Implementation in Four African Countries

    Alan J . Flisher;Crick Lund;Michelle Funk;Mwanza Banda

  • Integrating mental health into chronic care in South Africa: the development of a district mental healthcare plan.

    Inge Petersen;Lara Fairall;Arvin Bhana;Tasneem Kathree

  • Patient Health Questionnaire-9 scores do not accurately estimate depression prevalence: individual participant data meta-analysis

    Brooke Levis;Andrea Benedetti;John P.A. Ioannidis;Ying Sun

  • Building protective factors to offset sexually risky behaviors among black youths: a randomized control trial.

    Carl C. Bell;Arvin Bhana;Inge Petersen;Mary M. McKay

  • A group-based counselling intervention for depression comorbid with HIV/AIDS using a task shifting approach in South Africa: a randomized controlled pilot study.

    I. Petersen;J. Hanass Hancock;A. Bhana;K. Govender

  • Psychiatric stigma and discrimination in South Africa: perspectives from key stakeholders.

    Catherine O Egbe;Carrie Brooke-Sumner;Tasneem Kathree;One Selohilwe

  • A task shifting approach to primary mental health care for adults in South Africa: human resource requirements and costs for rural settings

    Inge Petersen;Crick Lund;Arvin Bhana;Alan J Flisher

  • Lessons from case studies of integrating mental health into primary health care in South Africa and Uganda

    Inge Petersen;Joshua Ssebunnya;Arvin Bhana;Kim Baillie

Frequent Co-Authors

Arvin Bhana
Arvin Bhana University of KwaZulu-Natal
Crick Lund
Crick Lund University of Cape Town
Charlotte Hanlon
Charlotte Hanlon King's College London
Abebaw Fekadu
Abebaw Fekadu Brighton and Sussex Medical School
Mary M. McKay
Mary M. McKay Washington University in St. Louis
Mark Tomlinson
Mark Tomlinson Queen's University Belfast
Claude A. Mellins
Claude A. Mellins Columbia University
Leslie Swartz
Leslie Swartz Stellenbosch University
Ramanan Laxminarayan
Ramanan Laxminarayan Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy
Louisa Degenhardt
Louisa Degenhardt University of New South Wales

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