Child Behavioral Health in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Introduction.- Understanding Child Behavioral Health within the Kenyan Context: Current Efforts in Policy, Research, and Practice.- Understanding Child Behavioral Health within the Ghanaian Context: Current Efforts in Policy, Research, and Practice.- Understanding Child Behavioral Health within the Ugandan Context: Current Efforts in Policy, Research, and Practice.- HIV/AIDS and Child Behavioral Health.- Non-Kin Support Networks and Child Behavioral Health in Sub-Saharan Africa.- Child Behavioral Health in Emergency Settings.- Working with Children Affected by Conflict and Displacement.- Scaling-up Child Behavioral Health Interventions.- Measuring Child Behavioral Health in SSA: Current Practice and Way Forward.- Making Child Behavioral Health a Policy Priority: Comparative Analysis of Policy Frameworks from Ghana, Uganda, and Kenya.- Training a new Cadre of Child Behavioral Health Scientists. Current Gaps and Promise.- Integrating Research and Practice: A Practitioners' Perspective.- Engaging with the US Government on Issues of Child Behavioral Health in SSA.- Conclusion.

Fred M. Ssewamala, PhD is William E. Gordon Distinguished Professor at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Dr. Ssewamala leads innovative, interdisciplinary research that informs, develops and tests economic empowerment and social protection interventions aimed at improving life chances and long-term developmental impacts for children and adolescent youth impacted by poverty and health disparities in low-resource communities. He holds a joint appointment in the Washington University School of Medicine, and directs the International Center for Child Health and Development (ICHAD) and SMART Africa Center.

Currently, Dr. Ssewamala is conducting five large-scale longitudinal randomized control trials across sub-Saharan Africa funded by the National Institutes of Health: Kyaterekera Project, Suubi+Adherence-R2, Suubi4Her, SMART Africa and Suubi4Stigma. Another project, Suubi4Cancer, explores care for children living with HIV with suspected cancers. In addition, he is a co-principal investigator on several NIH-funded training projects that focus on training early-career researchers committed to careers in child behavioral health.

Dr. Ssewamala has over 100 peer-reviewed articles in high-impact journals on family economic empowerment and related health and mental health outcomes as well as HIV prevention. He serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Adolescent Health and co-edits the Global Social Welfare journal. He is a member of the Society for Social Work and Research, American Public Health Association, and the Siteman Cancer Center. Ssewamala is also a fellow of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare.



Ozge Sensoy Bahar, PhD is Research Assistant Professor at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Sensoy Bahar's research focuses on child and family well-being in global contexts characterized by poverty and associated stressors.

"This book is the first work of its kind with an exclusive focus on the understudied region of Sub-Saharan Africa. The chapters highlight the current state of policy and research evidence both in the region as a whole and in country-specific contexts ... ." (brownschool.wustl.edu, January 24, 2022)