Bibhav Acharya

Datos Biográficos

ID4494015
NOMBREBibhav Acharya
NOMBRESBibhav
APELLIDOAcharya
FIRMAACHARYA B
AFILIACIONESUniversity of California, San Francisco
ORCID0000-0002-8555-7785
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS16
TOTAL DE CITAS0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR12
TOTAL COMO EDITOR4
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2012
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H0

  • Female community health volunteers’ knowledge and confidence in providing community-based diabetes self-management support in Nepal

    Open AccessAda Thapa, Susagya Bhusal et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2026

    Self-management support by community health workers, referred to as Female Community Health Volunteers (FCHVs) in Nepal, can enhance diabetes care in resource-constrained settings. We assessed FCHVs’ knowledge, perceived self-efficacy, and barriers to supporting diabetes self-management before and after training. Guided by the Health Belief Model, we conducted a biphasic, Qual + quan, concurrent, embedded mixed-methods evaluations among 28 FCHVs …

  • Organization-level determinants for low secondary traumatic stress in lay counselors delivering trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy in Kenya

    Open AccessPriya Dahiya, Clara Johnson et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2026

    Eighty percent of the world’s youth live in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), yet access to trauma-focused mental health care in these settings remains limited despite a high burden of mental health disorders and trauma exposure among youth. Task-shifting models that train lay counselors to deliver evidence-based treatments can expand access to care, yet delivering trauma-focused treatment may increase counselors’ vulnerability to seconda…

  • Community-identified priorities for parenting and parental mental health in coastal Ghana

    Open AccessFaiza Abdul, Kafui K Dzorgbesi et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2026

    Interventions that combine parenting support with parental mental health components hold promise for enhancing child and family well-being. Yet, few integrate robust mental health strategies or draw on formative research to ensure contextual and cultural relevance. We conducted qualitative research in Ghana to explore local experiences of parenting and parental mental health to inform the development of a multi-component intervention. We conducte…

  • Global mental health and psychosocial support programming

    Open AccessPaul Bolton, Saloni Dev et al.ARTICLECambridge Prisms Global Mental…2025

    The global mental health (GMH) field aims to equitably improve mental health and well-being everywhere. This article reviews persistent common challenges hindering sustained, high-quality delivery of mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS). Our focus is on programming that is funded or implemented by external organizations, typically universities or international non-governmental organizations from high-income countries. It is a consensus …

  • High Interest in the Use of mHealth Platform for HIV Prevention among Men Who Have Sex with Men in Nepal

    Open AccessKamal Gautam, Kiran Paudel et al.ARTICLEJournal of Community Health2024

  • Effects of blast exposure on anxiety and symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among displaced Ukrainian populations

    Open AccessKen Brackstone, Michael G Head et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Generalized anxiety and symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are common among individuals forcibly displaced during war and conflict. Blast exposure may be one important contributor of such symptoms. The aims of this study were to provide data on blast-related experiences of internally displaced persons (IDPs) and refugees following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and to assess the influence of blast exposure on generalized anxiety, an…

  • Community health workers’ barriers and facilitators to use a novel mHealth tool for motivational interviewing to improve adherence to care among youth living with HIV in rural Nepal

    Open AccessRekha Khatri, Pragya Rimal et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Adherence to treatment regimens is a common challenge in achieving HIV control, especially among youth. Motivational Interviewing (MI) is an evidence-based intervention to facilitate behavior change (such as adherence to treatment) by focusing on the client’s priorities and motivations. Community Health Workers (CHWs), who are well situated to engage clients for care, can use MI but studies have shown that they often lose MI skills. While mHealth…

  • Advancing equitable access to digital mental health in the Asia-Pacific region in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond

    Open AccessJill Murphy, Timothy J Griffin et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    The COVID-19 pandemic had an unprecedented impact on global mental health and well-being, including across the Asia-Pacific. Efforts to mitigate virus spread led to far-reaching disruption in the delivery of health and social services. In response, there was a rapid shift to the use of digital mental health (DMH) approaches. Though these technologies helped to improve access to care for many, there was also substantial risk of access barriers lea…

  • A longitudinal study of the role of spousal relationship quality and mother-in-law relationship quality on women’s depression in rural Nepal

    Open AccessLakshmi Gopalakrishnan, Bibhav Acharya et al.ARTICLESSM - Mental Health2023

    Nepal has high prevalence of early marriage and remains a patrilocal society with women moving into their husbands' home after marriage. Spousal relationship quality can be an important predictor of health and mental well-being of married women in a patriarchal setting like Nepal but is understudied in this population. We examined the association between spousal relationship quality, mother-in-law relationship quality and mental health among newl…

  • The relationship between the gendered norm of eating last and mental health of newly married women in Nepal

    Open AccessLakshmi Gopalakrishnan, Nadia Diamond-Smith et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2023

    Eating last is a gendered cultural norm in which the youngest daughters-in-law are expected to eat last after serving others in the household, including men and in-laws. Using women's eating last as an indicator of women's status, we studied the association between eating last and women's mental health. Using four rounds of prospective cohort data of 18-25-year-old newly married women (n = 200) cohabiting with mothers-in-law between 2018 and 2020…

  • Global Mental Health Training and Practice

    Bibhav Acharya, Anne E BeckerBOOKGlobal Mental Health Training and…2023

  • Cross-cultural adaptation of motivational interviewing for use in rural Nepal

    Open AccessPragya Rimal, Sonu Khadka et al.ARTICLEBMC Psychology2021

    MI carries several cultural assumptions, particularly around individual freedom and autonomy. MI adaptation thus faces challenges in cultures where such assumptions may not hold. However, cross-cultural adaptation with key informant perspectives can lead to creative strategies that recognize both the patient's autonomy and their role as a member of a complex social fabric to facilitate behavior change

  • Partnerships in mental healthcare service delivery in low-resource settings

    Open AccessBibhav Acharya, Duncan Maru et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2017

    BACKGROUND: Mental illnesses are the largest contributors to the global burden of non-communicable diseases. However, there is extremely limited access to high quality, culturally-sensitive, and contextually-appropriate mental healthcare services. This situation persists despite the availability of interventions with proven efficacy to improve patient outcomes. A partnerships network is necessary for successful program adaptation and implementati…

  • Power, potential, and pitfalls in global health academic partnerships

    Open AccessDavid Citrin, Stephen Mehanni et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2017

    BACKGROUND: Global health academic partnerships are centered around a core tension: they often mirror or reproduce the very cross-national inequities they seek to alleviate. On the one hand, they risk worsening power dynamics that perpetuate health disparities; on the other, they form an essential response to the need for healthcare resources to reach marginalized populations across the globe. OBJECTIVES: This study characterizes the broader land…

  • Developing a scalable training model in global mental health

    Open AccessBibhav Acharya, Jasmine Tenpa et al.ARTICLECambridge Prisms Global Mental…2017

    Video lectures and on-site skills training can address the limitations of a conventional training model while being acceptable, feasible, and impactful toward improving knowledge and attitudes of the participants

  • Crossing the quality chasm in resource-limited settings

    Open AccessDuncan Maru, Jason R Andrews et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2012

    Over the last decade, extensive scientific and policy innovations have begun to reduce the "quality chasm"--the gulf between best practices and actual implementation that exists in resource-rich medical settings. While limited data exist, this chasm is likely to be equally acute and deadly in resource-limited areas. While health systems have begun to be scaled up in impoverished areas, scale-up is just the foundation necessary to deliver effectiv…