Brandon Knettel
Associate Director, Duke Center for Global Mental Health
Assistant Professor of Nursing and Global Health
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Brandon Knettel
Associate Director, Duke Center for Global Mental Health
Assistant Professor of Nursing and Global Health
Brandon Knettel, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist and Assistant Professor with a primary appointment in the Duke University School of Nursing and a secondary appointment in the Duke Global Health Institute. He is also Associate Director of the Duke Center for Global Mental Health. He specializes in mental health intervention development and capacity building, with a focus on health behavior, care engagement, stigma reduction, 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 one-year VECD Fogarty Global Health Fellowship to evaluate a community health worker program for HIV care engagement. In 2021, he received a NIMH K08 Career Development Award to develop a brief telehealth counseling intervention to address suicidal ideation and improve care engagement among people living with HIV in Tanzania. He is also leading a grant to expand expertise in mental health nursing in Moshi, and was co-PI of a DGHI pilot grant to improve the understanding of cancer-related stigma in Tanzania.
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Suneja G, Kimani SM, Gill H, Painschab MS, Knettel BA, Watt MH. Addressing the Intersectional Stigma of Kaposi Sarcoma and HIV: A Call to Action. JCO global oncology. 2024 Feb;10:e2300264.Knettel BA, Obale A, Iqbal H, Fotabong MC, Philippe NN, Graton M, et al. A profound absence of counseling interventions for suicide prevention among youth in Africa: A call to action based on an empty scoping review. Suicide & life-threatening behavior. 2024 Jan;Agor D, Knettel BA, Daici K, Meanley S. The Intersection of Mental Health and Sexual and Gender Minority Identities for Older Adults Living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus: A Narrative Review. Nursing Clinics of North America. 2024 Jan 1;Knettel B, Minja L, Msoka E, Tarimo C, Katiti V, Pan W, et al. Culturally-informed adaptation and psychometric properties of the Cataldo Cancer Stigma Scale in Northern Tanzania. J Psychosoc Oncol. 2024;42(2):286–98.
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