Harvard Catalyst Profiles

The Mental Health For All Lab is looking for 1–2 motivated students to contribute to a global qualitative study on the experiences of college students dealing with depression and anxiety. This study is part of the World Mental Health Initiative, which began over two decades ago as a WHO project to obtain epidemiological data on mental, substance, and behavioral disorders among college students throughout the world. The second phase of the initiative, this current study, is a qualitative and text analytic research study designed to understand barriers to treatment in college students. As a research assistant, you’ll: • Learn about qualitative research methods; • Work in a team with our international collaborators to code interviews collected from 8 countries; • Tag key themes in the interview transcripts, like experiences with mental health care, coping, suicidal thoughts and behaviors, and other mental health related experiences using the project’s research codebook; • Help uncover barriers, facilitators and potentially other themes that impact college students’ experiences around seeking mental health support.