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Programme Outputs

Academic Publications

INTREPID II

2022

Morgan, C., Cohen, A., Miguel Esponda, G., Roberts, T., John, S., Lee Pow, J., Donald, C., Olley, B., Ayinde, O., Lam, J., Poornachandrika, P., Dazzan, P., Gaughran, F., Kannan, P.P., Sudhaka, S., Burns, J., Chiliza, B., Susser, E., Weiss, H., Murray, R.M., Thara, R., Gureje, O., Hutchinson, G., & INTREPID Group (in press) The epidemiology of untreated psychoses in three diverse settings in the Global South: the INTREPID II programme. JAMA Psychiatry.
Lee Pow, J., Donald, C., Di Forti, M., Roberts, T., Weiss, H., Ayinde, O., John, S., Olley, B., Miguel Esponda, G., Lam, J., Poornachandrika, P., Dazzan, P., Gaughran, F., Kannan, P.P., Sudhaka, S., Burns, J., Chiliza, B., INTREPID Group, Cohen, A., Gureje, O., Thara, R., Murray, R.M., Morgan, C., & Hutchinson, G.  (in press) Cannabis use and psychotic disorders in the Global South: Findings from INTREPID II. Psychological Medicine.
Roberts, T., Susser, E., Lee Pow, J., Donald, C., John, S., Ayinde, O., Ojagbemi, A., Olley, B., Miguel Esponda, G., Lam, J., Murray, R.M., Cohen, A., Weiss, H., Hutchinson, G., Thara, R., Gureje, O., Burns, J., INTREPID Group, & Morgan, C., (in press) Urbanicity and rates of untreated psychotic disorders in three diverse settings in the Global South. Psychological Medicine.
 Oloniniyi, I.O., Weiss, H.A., John, S., Esan, O., Hibben, M., Patel, V., Murray, R.M., Cohen, A., Hutchinson, G., Gureje, O., Thara, R., Morgan, C., & Roberts, T. (in press) Life events and psychosis: case-control study from three socio-economically diverse countries. British Journal of Psychiatry Open.
Lam J, John S, Roberts T, Kulandesu A, Samikannu K, Devanathan K, Kumar TC, Padmavati R, Aynkaran JR, Esponda GM, Morgan C, Rangawsamy T. The Impact of Coronavirus Disease 2019 on People with and without Severe Mental Illness in Tamil Nadu, India. World Soc Psychiatry 2022;4:37-45 doi: https://doi.org/10.4103/wsp.wsp_11_21

2021

Morgan, C., Dazzan, P., Gureje, O., Hanlon, C., Jones, N., Miguel Esponda, G., Malla, A., Pathare, S., Ran, M-S., Roberts, T., Thara, R., Vasquez, A., on behalf of the Lancet Psychiatry Commission on Psychoses in Global Context. Announcing the Lancet Psychiatry Commission on Psychoses in Global Context. The Lancet Psychiatry 2021, 8, 743. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2215-0366(21)00234-0 
Kumar, S., Pathare, S., Miguel Esponda, G., & Lancet Commission on Psychoses in Global Context Editorial Board (2021). COVID-19 vaccine prioritisation for individuals with psychoses. The Lancet Psychiatry, 8(9), 751. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2215-0366(21)00236-4
Cohen, A. & Morgan, C.. 2021. Estimating the incidence of psychosis in diverse settings. Psychol Med. England: pp. 527-528. doi: 10.1017/S0033291719003702.​

2020

Roberts, T., Gureje, O., Rangaswamy, T., Hutchinson, G., Cohen, A., Weiss, H., John, S., Lee Pow, J., Donald, C., Olley, B., Miguel Esponda, G., Murray, R., Morgan, C. (2020). INTREPID II: protocol for a multistudy programme of research on untreated psychosis in India, Nigeria and Trinidad. BMJ Open, 10:e039004. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-039004
Roberts, T., Morgan, C., Gureje, O., Hutchinson, G., Rangaswamy, T., John, S., Lee Pow, J., Donald, C., Olley, B. (2020). T241. Incidence and Socio-demographic/Clinical characteristics of Psychotic Disorders in India, Nigeria and Trinidad: preliminary baseline findings from INTREPID II. Schizophrenia Bulletin, Volume 46, Issue Supplement_1, April 2020, Page S324, https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbaa029.801

INTREPID I

These publications are outputs from INTREPID I, a pilot programme funded by the Wellcome Trust, in which we tested the methods for INTREPID II and mapped out a network of key informants, service providers and traditional practitioners in each site. Read more about INTREPID I in the articles below. 

2016

Morgan, C., John, S., Esan, O., Hibben, M., Patel, V., Weiss, H., Murray, R. M., Hutchinson, G., Gureje, O., Thara, R., Cohen, A. (2016). The incidence of psychoses in diverse settings, INTREPID (2): A feasibility study in India, Nigeria, and Trinidad. Psychological Medicine, 46(9), 1923-1933. doi:10.1017/S0033291716000441
Cohen, A., Padmavati, R., Hibben, M., Oyewusi, S., John, S., Esan, O., Patel, V., Weiss, H., Murray, R., Hutchinson, G., Gureje, O., Thara, R., Morgan, C. (2016). Concepts of madness in diverse settings: a qualitative study from the INTREPID project. BMC Psychiatry, 16(1). doi:10.1186/s12888-016-1090-4

2015

Morgan, C., Hibben, M., Esan, O., Sujit, J., Patel, V., Weiss, H., Murray, R. M., Hutchinson, G., Gureje, O., Thara, R., Cohen, A. (2015) Searching for psychosis: INTREPID (1): systems for detecting untreated and first-episode cases of psychosis in diverse settings. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology 50(6), 879-893. doi:10.1007/s00127-015-1013-6

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february 2019 Newsletter
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March 2020 Newsletter
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July 2022 Newsletter

Recorded academic presentations

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Read about and listen to a round table discussion on psychosis and global mental health, at the IoPPN in June 2019 and featuring several of the INTREPID II Investigators, at the Centre for Global Mental Health's website here.

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Click here to see a presentation about the INTREPID II programme entitled " Psychosis in Global Context: Initial Findings from INTREPID II" at the Population mentla Health Forum Series from the School of Public Health at Harvard T.H. Chan. 

In the media

Press coverage to date:
  • The Nation Nigeria: https://thenationonlineng.net/psychotic-disorders-high-in-oyo/
  • The Times of India: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/chennai-based-researchers-link-schizophrenia-to-naprt1-gene/articleshow/69452646.cms
  • Newsday Trinidad and Tobago: https://newsday.co.tt/2019/05/24/schizophrenia-disorder-high-in-tt/
  • The Hindu: Pandemic has led to greater focus on mental health, says expert - The Hindu
  • The Catholic TT: The herb ain’t organic - Marijuana Psychoses - CatholicTT
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Read the funding announcement for INTREPID II here.

Collaborations

  • EU-GEI at multiple sites in Europe and Brazil
  • PSYchosis MAPping in KwaZulu-Natal (PSYMAP-ZN) at University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa 
  • Studying the Contexts of recent Onset Psychoses in Ethiopia to develop interventions to reduce onset and improve outcomes: the SCOPE study at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
  • ​Psychosis Recovery Orientation in Malawi by Improving Services and Engagement (PROMISE) at Malawi
  • The Lancet Psychiatry Commission on Psychoses in Global Context
  • SIRS Research Harmonisation Group 

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A ritual site in Nigeria
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University of the West Indies, Trinidad
The INTREPID II Research Programme is funded by the UK Medical Research Council.
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