Florence Baingana

World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa — CG

Psychology · Social Sciences

30h-index8.1kcitations75works10.32yr avg
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Research Topics

Mental Health Treatment and Access(42), Migration, Health and Trauma(15), Global Maternal and Child Health(11), Health disparities and outcomes(9), Family Caregiving in Mental Illness(8)

Publications75 total

Exploring the Impact of Human Rights and Mental Health Training on Practice in Ghana
Journal of Human Rights and Social Work·2025Open Access
Evaluating the psychometric properties of three WHO instruments to assess knowledge about human rights, attitudes toward persons with mental health conditions and psychosocial disabilities, and practices related to substitute decision-making and coercion in mental health
Frontiers in Psychiatry·2024· 4 citedOpen Access
National plans and awareness campaigns as priorities for achieving global brain health
The Lancet Global Health·2024· 27 citedOpen Access
A quantitative analysis of human rights-related attitude changes towards people with mental health conditions and psychosocial, intellectual, or cognitive disabilities following completion of the WHO QualityRights e-training in Ghana
International Journal of Mental Health Systems·2023· 8 citedOpen Access
The WHO Mental Health Gap Action Programme for mental, neurological, and substance use conditions: the new and updated guideline recommendations
The Lancet Psychiatry·2023· 24 citedOpen Access
The negative impact of global health worker migration, and how it can be addressed
Public Health·2023· 41 citedOpen Access
Mental health and psychosocial support in humanitarian settings: research priorities for 2021–30
The Lancet Global Health·2023· 64 citedOpen Access
Attitudes towards persons with mental health conditions and psychosocial disabilities as rights holders in Ghana: a World Health Organization study
BMC Psychiatry·2023· 11 citedOpen Access
A quantitative analysis of human rights-related attitude changes towards people with mental health conditions and psychosocial, intellectual, or cognitive disabilities following completion of the WHO QualityRights e-training in Ghana
Research Square (Research Square)·2022Open Access
Integrating mental health into emergency preparedness and response: lessons learned from Covid-19
European Journal of Public Health·2022Open Access
Challenges and Opportunities for Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in the COVID-19 Response in Africa: A Mixed-Methods Study
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health·2022· 7 citedOpen Access
A nationwide evaluation study of the quality of care and respect of human rights in mental health facilities in Ghana: results from the World Health Organization QualityRights initiative
BMC Public Health·2022· 25 citedOpen Access
Baseline situational analysis in Bangladesh, Jordan, Paraguay, the Philippines, Ukraine, and Zimbabwe for the WHO Special Initiative for Mental Health: Universal Health Coverage for Mental Health
PLoS ONE·2022· 26 citedOpen Access
Mental health and psychosocial support concerns among frontline workers within the Eastern and Southern Africa COVID-19 response
Pan African Medical Journal·2022· 3 citedOpen Access
Intra-household Variation in Pathways to Care for Epilepsy and Mental Disorders in Eastern Uganda
Frontiers in Public Health·2021· 2 citedOpen Access
Integration of perinatal mental health care into district health services in Uganda: Why is it not happening? The Four Domain Integrated Health (4DIH) explanatory framework
Social Science & Medicine·2020· 7 cited
Perceptions on the collection of body fluids for research on persistence of Ebola virus: A qualitative study
PLoS neglected tropical diseases·2020· 7 citedOpen Access
Mental health in Sierra Leone
BJPsych International·2019· 38 citedOpen Access
How competent are non-specialists trained to integrate mental health services in primary care? Global health perspectives from Uganda, Liberia, and Nepal
International Review of Psychiatry·2018· 74 citedOpen Access
The Lancet Commission on global mental health and sustainable development
The Lancet·2018· 3.1k cited
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Frequent Co-authors

Rachel Jenkins(12), Janice L. Cooper(6), John Mayeya(6), Julian Eaton(5), Mark J. D. Jordans(5), Mark van Ommeren(5), Walter Gulbinat(5), Malik H. Mubbashar(5), Clare Townsend(5), Harvey Whiteford(5), Vikram Patel(4), Shekhar Saxena(4), Wietse A. Tol(4), James M. Shultz(4), Raheelah Ahmad(4), David McDaid(4), Rifat Atun(4), Ron Manderscheid(4), Sudhir K. Khandelwal(4), Alberto Minoletti(4)