Our research
The Trauma & Global Health Program鈥檚 Nepalese team is focusing on four priority research areas:
- Assessment of the mental health impact of political violence in selected rural communities, including issues of poverty, ethnicity, and gender
- Community-based responses to extreme violence and torture: resilience and protective factors
- Development of screening protocols (clinical and epidemiological) for trauma-related disorders for mental illness and disability
- Testing and validation of a clinical and collective intervention protocol in two ethnically heterogeneous populations
Where we work
In Nepal, research will be conducted in four rural regions. Two regions are relatively ethnically homogeneous:
- Kailali district in the south-west comprising mostly Tharu Hindu groups who have traditionally been a bonded-labor group serving high-caste Hindus
- Baglung and Gulmi districts comprising mostly Magar Buddhist groups, who have traditionally lived by subsistence agriculture and horticulture and have undergone significant assimilation to high caste Hindu culture (鈥淪anskritization鈥�)
Two additional regions are ethnically heterogeneous, comprising a mixture of high caste Hindu, Dalits, and non-Hindu groups:
- Jagarkot in West
- Bhojpur in East