Brandon Knettel, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Nursing and Global Health and Associate Director of the Duke Center for Global Mental Health. He is a licensed psychologist specializing in mental health intervention development and capacity strengthening, with focus areas that include health behavior, care engagement, stigma reduction, suicide prevention, nurse-led models of care, and mental health support for people living with HIV. At DGHI, he teaches a course in Global Mental Health for the Master's of Science in Global Health program. 

Dr. Knettel’s international projects are primarily located in Moshi, Tanzania, where he completed a NIMH K08 Career Development Award to develop IDEAS for Hope, a brief telehealth counseling intervention to prevent suicide and improve care engagement among people living with HIV. He is also leading a grant to expand capacity in mental health nursing in Moshi, and led a DGHI pilot grant to improve the understanding of cancer-related stigma in Tanzania.