Melissa Ann Stockton, PhD, MSPH
Associate Scholar
- Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania
- Malawi | South Africa
- HIV/AIDS | Mental health | Stigma
Languages: English(native) | Intermediate: French, Spanish | Beginner: Chichewa, Portuguese, Hebrew
BIO STATEMENT
Dr. Stockton is a social epidemiologist and assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on the intersection of mental health, HIV, and stigma. She is an expert in stigma-reduction research whose work focuses on implementing and evaluating evidence-based interventions that both address stigma and deliver high-quality psychological care in low-resource settings. She is based in Lilongwe Malawi, where she currently leads research on stigma-reduction and suicide prevention as part of mental health programming for people living with HIV.
Recent Global Health Projects
Improving HIV and Depression Outcomes by Reducing HIV-Mental Illness Stigma in Malawi: A Pilot Effectiveness-implementation
Major Goals: To link depressed people living with HIV to depression care augmented with stigma-reduction
Suicide Assessment and Feasible Evidence-based Treatments for Youth Living with HIV: SAFETY Planning
Major Goals: To adapt an evidence-based suicide prevention intervention for adolescents living with HIV in Malawi and evaluate the preliminary efficacy and implementation in a hybrid pilot trial.
Select Publications
Stockton MA, Mazinyo EW, Mlanjeni L, Nogemane K, Ngcelwane N, Sweetland AC, Basaraba CN, Bezuidenhout C, Sansbury G, Lovero KL, Olivier D, Grobler C, Wall MM, Medina-Marino A, Nobatyi P, Wainberg ML. Validation of a brief screener for broad-spectrum mental and substance-use disorders in South Africa. Glob Ment Health (Camb). 2023 Dec 21;11:e4. doi: 10.1017/gmh.2023.89. PMID: 38283876; PMCID: PMC10808975.
Mughal AY, Stockton MA, Bui Q, Go V, Pence BW, Ha TV, Gaynes BN. Examining common mental health disorders in people living with HIV on methadone maintenance therapy in Hanoi, Vietnam. Harm Reduct J. 2021 Apr 23;18(1):45. doi: 10.1186/s12954-021-00495-3. PMID: 33892743; PMCID: PMC8063421.
Wainberg ML, Gouveia ML, Stockton MA, Feliciano P, Suleman A, Mootz JJ, Mello M, Fiks Salem A, Greene MC, Bezuidenhout C, Ngwepe P, Lovero KL, Fortunato Dos Santos P, Schriger SH, Mandell DS, Mulumba R, Neves Anube A, Mabunda D, Mandlate F, Cournos F, Alves-Bradford JM, Nicholson T, Kann B, Fumo W, Duarte CS, de Jesus Mari J, Mello MF, Mocumbi AO, Oquendo MA, Weissman MM. Technology and implementation science to forge the future of evidence-based psychotherapies: the PRIDE scale-up study. Evid Based Ment Health. 2021 Feb;24(1):19-24. doi: 10.1136/ebmental-2020-300199. Epub 2020 Nov 11. PMID: 33177149; PMCID: PMC8025148.
Last Updated: 21 October 2024