UK team members

The University of Manchester

Prof Penny Bee (Co-Principal Investigator)

Professor of Mental Health and Director of Research, Division of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work

Joint accountability with Dr Brooks and Dr Susanti for programme management including the management of UK/Indonesia research staff, national and international research governance, study progress and programme deliverables.

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Dr Helen Brooks (Co-Principal Investigator)

Senior Lecturer and Head of the Mental Health Research Group

Joint accountability with Prof Bee and Dr Susanti for programme management including the management of UK/Indonesia research staff, national and international research governance, study progress and programme deliverables.

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Prof Matthew Sutton

Professor of Health Economics

Work Package Lead. Oversee all aspects of health economics research and capacity training throughout the grant to ensure that consistency is maintained and synergies are exploited.

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Rebecca Pedley

Research Fellow, Division of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work

UK site project researcher, responsible for supporting qualitative work and research activities particularly within work packages 2, 3 and 4.

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Professor Karina Lovell

Professor of Mental Health, Division Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work

Work Package 3 Lead. Responsible for clinical capacity building which will be strengthened via clinical skills training and co-delivered by our UK and Indonesian partners. Overseeing the training of at least 150 Kader, 12 psychiatrists and 48 nurses. Co-producing and evaluating an evidence-based train-the-trainers course.

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Mr Paul Wilson

Senior Lecturer in Implementation Science, Division of Population Health, Health Services Research and Primary Care

Work Package 4 Lead. Responsible delivering and evaluating the delivery, reach and impacts of a low-intensity psychological intervention for depression and anxiety in Indonesia and identify barriers/enablers to its implementation, scale-up and use.

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Dr Laura Anselmi

Senior Research Fellow, Division of Population Health, Health Services Research and Primary Care

Work Package 5 Lead. Along with contributing to the secondary data analysis in WP1, responsible for the cost and affordability estimations and prioritisation for scale up in WP5.

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Dr Jack Wilkinson

Presidential Fellow, Division of Population Health, Health Services Research and Primary Care

Co-Applicant Work Package 1 and 4. Input concentrated in both WP 1 and 4 to support the development of SAPs and ongoing analysis.

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Professor Peter Bower

Professor of Health Sciences, Division of Population Health, Health Services Research and Primary Care

Work Package 4 Co-Applicant

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Dr Laoise Renwick

Senior Lecturer in Mental Health Nursing, Division of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work

Co-investigator Work Package 3. Supporting work in partnership with national and local governmental, non-governmental and public stakeholders to engage communities, encourage intersectoral collaboration, promote mental health advocacy and stimulate demand for effective, efficient mental healthcare.

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Alfariany Fatimah

alfaResearch Associate in Health organisation, policy and economics (HOPE).

Working as part of the WP1 team on secondary data analysis using Indonesian National Health Inusrance (BPJS) sample data.

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Jemma Elston

Programme Manager

Coordinate research staff, resources and planning.

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Regina Roth

Programme Administrator

Administrative support for the delivery of projects.

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Dr Asri Maharani

Senior Lecturer, Department of Nursing

Co-Applicant Work Package 1. Working with the WP1 team on the analysis of secondary and longitudinal data on households.

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Aditya Kurniawan

adityaPhD student at the Division of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work.

Working with WP4 exploring the experiences of lay health workers in delivering low-intensity psychological interventions for people with depression and anxiety in low-and middle income countries, including Indonesia. 

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Agus Sugianto

PhD student at the Division of Nursing, Midwifery and Social working work with the Lived Experience Advisory Group (LEAG) on WP 2 and WP 4 researching behaviour of people with depression and anxiety in Indonesia and disseminating events in collaboration with the CEI groups.

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Jon Gibson

JonResearch Fellow in Health Economics. Working as part of the WP1 team on the analysis of secondary data and primary household data.

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