Roxanne Keynejad
Biographic Data
| ID | 6910571 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roxanne Keynejad |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roxanne |
| FAMILY NAME | Keynejad |
| SIGNATURE | KEYNEJAD R |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4434-3526 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The intergenerational legacies of research disinvestment, aid retrenchment and transactional compacts on global women’s health
Global health funding by the United States government declined precipitously in 2025, triggering a cascade of international disinvestment in women’s health in low and middle-income countries, followed by a new era of ‘America First’ aid policy. Successive budget cuts by other high-income countries compounded the effects of these abrupt policy and geopolitical changes on women’s health, safety, and access to life saving and health assuring prevent…
Identification of psychosocial problems in routine antenatal care in Ethiopia
In this facility-based cross-sectional survey in primary health care centres in southern Ethiopia, women attending for antenatal care (ANC) were screened for depression (PHQ-9; score ≥ 5 and functionally impaired), anxiety symptoms (GAD-7; score ≥ 10), post-traumatic stress disorder (PCL-5 score ≥ 31), intimate partner violence (IPV; non-graphic language screening test) and risky substance use (ASSIST). Clinical notes were reviewed post-consultat…
From housing to home and belonging
Women's mental health is profoundly shaped by structural violence through housing, which impacts their experience of home and sense of belonging. This Perspective advances an integrative sociological framework across a continuum from the most concrete manifestation of shelter (housing) through symbolic representations of home, to the psychological experience of belonging to a place. We synthesize evidence for relationships between unstable, unsaf…
Training antenatal care providers to deliver brief problem-solving therapy in rural Ethiopia
Background Task-sharing is the redistribution of tasks usually performed by specialists, to staff with less training and fewer qualifications. Despite the established clinical efficacy of task-shared brief psychological interventions in low and middle-income countries, training and supervision models are infrequently reported and rarely evaluated. Methods From the interpretive paradigm, we conducted a developmental evaluation of training, supervi…
Intimate partner and family violence and mental health during the Sars-CoV-2 pandemic
Collecting proxy data on IPFV is feasible and was related to CMDs during COVID-19 in a range of settings. Like partner violence, family violence may also be related to increased CMDs, especially in women. Policy responses for post-pandemic recovery and preparation for future emergencies should consider the health impacts of family violence as well as partner violence
Decoloniality in global health research
Few articles advocating decolonisation offer actionable strategies within most early career researchers’ (ECRs) sphere of influence. ECRs are uniquely positioned to drive change. Educating ourselves and others, advocacy, critical allyship, advancing beneficiaries’ agendas, strengthening capacity, equitable partnership, diversifying paradigms, upholding ethics, ensuring recognition and pursuing epistemic justice are ten tasks within our reach
Problem-solving therapy for pregnant women experiencing depressive symptoms and intimate partner violence
Evidence for the feasibility of brief psychological interventions for pregnant women experiencing intimate partner violence (IPV) in rural, low-income country settings is scarce. In rural Ethiopia, the prevalence of antenatal depressive symptoms and lifetime IPV are 29% and 61%, respectively. We aimed to assess the feasibility and related implementation outcomes of brief problem-solving therapy (PST) adapted for pregnant women experiencing IPV (P…
Achieving the sustainable development goals
The sustainable development goals (SDGs) emphasize the inextricable connections between improved health and wider development indices. This vision is not matched by the ways that progress towards each constituent goal is achieved, and the SDGs are not on track to being met. This commentary considers theories and frameworks capturing the inter-relationships between health and its wider determinants, before discussing examples from mental health an…
Attentional Processing and Interpretative Bias in Functional Neurological Disorder
OBJECTIVE: Altered attentional processing (automatically attending to negative or illness-relevant information) and interpretative biases (interpreting ambiguous information as negative or illness relevant) may be mechanistically involved in functional neurological disorder (FND). Common mechanisms between FND and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) have been proposed but not compared experimentally. METHODS: We compared the cognitive task performance…
WHO Mental Health Gap Action Programme (mhGAP) Intervention Guide
Global health partnership for student peer-to-peer psychiatry e-learning
BACKGROUND: Global 'twinning' relationships between healthcare organizations and institutions in low and high-resource settings have created growing opportunities for e-health partnerships which capitalize upon expanding information technology resources worldwide. E-learning approaches to medical education are increasingly popular but remain under-investigated, whilst a new emphasis on global health teaching has coincided with university budget c…
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Global health partnership for student peer-to-peer psychiatry e-learning
BACKGROUND: Global 'twinning' relationships between healthcare organizations and institutions in low and high-resource settings have created growing opportunities for e-health partnerships which capitalize upon expanding information technology resources worldwide. E-learning approaches to medical education are increasingly popular but remain under-investigated, whilst a new emphasis on global health teaching has coincided with university budget c…
WHO Mental Health Gap Action Programme (mhGAP) Intervention Guide
Attentional Processing and Interpretative Bias in Functional Neurological Disorder
OBJECTIVE: Altered attentional processing (automatically attending to negative or illness-relevant information) and interpretative biases (interpreting ambiguous information as negative or illness relevant) may be mechanistically involved in functional neurological disorder (FND). Common mechanisms between FND and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) have been proposed but not compared experimentally. METHODS: We compared the cognitive task performance…
Achieving the sustainable development goals
The sustainable development goals (SDGs) emphasize the inextricable connections between improved health and wider development indices. This vision is not matched by the ways that progress towards each constituent goal is achieved, and the SDGs are not on track to being met. This commentary considers theories and frameworks capturing the inter-relationships between health and its wider determinants, before discussing examples from mental health an…
Decoloniality in global health research
Few articles advocating decolonisation offer actionable strategies within most early career researchers’ (ECRs) sphere of influence. ECRs are uniquely positioned to drive change. Educating ourselves and others, advocacy, critical allyship, advancing beneficiaries’ agendas, strengthening capacity, equitable partnership, diversifying paradigms, upholding ethics, ensuring recognition and pursuing epistemic justice are ten tasks within our reach
Problem-solving therapy for pregnant women experiencing depressive symptoms and intimate partner violence
Evidence for the feasibility of brief psychological interventions for pregnant women experiencing intimate partner violence (IPV) in rural, low-income country settings is scarce. In rural Ethiopia, the prevalence of antenatal depressive symptoms and lifetime IPV are 29% and 61%, respectively. We aimed to assess the feasibility and related implementation outcomes of brief problem-solving therapy (PST) adapted for pregnant women experiencing IPV (P…
Training antenatal care providers to deliver brief problem-solving therapy in rural Ethiopia
Background Task-sharing is the redistribution of tasks usually performed by specialists, to staff with less training and fewer qualifications. Despite the established clinical efficacy of task-shared brief psychological interventions in low and middle-income countries, training and supervision models are infrequently reported and rarely evaluated. Methods From the interpretive paradigm, we conducted a developmental evaluation of training, supervi…
Intimate partner and family violence and mental health during the Sars-CoV-2 pandemic
Collecting proxy data on IPFV is feasible and was related to CMDs during COVID-19 in a range of settings. Like partner violence, family violence may also be related to increased CMDs, especially in women. Policy responses for post-pandemic recovery and preparation for future emergencies should consider the health impacts of family violence as well as partner violence
The intergenerational legacies of research disinvestment, aid retrenchment and transactional compacts on global women’s health
Global health funding by the United States government declined precipitously in 2025, triggering a cascade of international disinvestment in women’s health in low and middle-income countries, followed by a new era of ‘America First’ aid policy. Successive budget cuts by other high-income countries compounded the effects of these abrupt policy and geopolitical changes on women’s health, safety, and access to life saving and health assuring prevent…
Identification of psychosocial problems in routine antenatal care in Ethiopia
In this facility-based cross-sectional survey in primary health care centres in southern Ethiopia, women attending for antenatal care (ANC) were screened for depression (PHQ-9; score ≥ 5 and functionally impaired), anxiety symptoms (GAD-7; score ≥ 10), post-traumatic stress disorder (PCL-5 score ≥ 31), intimate partner violence (IPV; non-graphic language screening test) and risky substance use (ASSIST). Clinical notes were reviewed post-consultat…
From housing to home and belonging
Women's mental health is profoundly shaped by structural violence through housing, which impacts their experience of home and sense of belonging. This Perspective advances an integrative sociological framework across a continuum from the most concrete manifestation of shelter (housing) through symbolic representations of home, to the psychological experience of belonging to a place. We synthesize evidence for relationships between unstable, unsaf…
Medicine (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Mental health (4 works) · Psychiatry (4 works) · Intimate Partner and Family Violence (3 works) · Medical education (3 works) · Nursing (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Public relations (3 works) · Sociology (3 works)