Eve Puffer
Eve Puffer
Director, Duke Global Mental Health Program
Associate Professor, Psychology and Neuroscience and Global Health
Dr. Puffer is a global mental health researcher and a licensed clinical psychologist. Her research focuses on developing and evaluating integrated community-based interventions to promote child mental health, improve family functioning, and prevent HIV risk behavior. She has conducted much of this work in rural Kenya. Before joining Duke, Dr. Puffer was a research advisor at the International Rescue Committee conducting evaluations of humanitarian programs in refugee settings. She is an investigator on multiple studies of child mental health and parenting interventions in Thailand, Ethiopia, and Liberia.
Projects
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Community-sourced Interventions for Global Mental Health
Kenya
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Developing a direct observational measure of family functioning for low-resource settings: Establishing reliability and validity in a Kenyan sample
Kenya
- National Evaluation of Quality of Childcare
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Development and Evaluation of a Family- and Church-based Intervention for Mental Health Promotion and HIV Prevention for Adolescents in Rural Kenya
Kenya
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Development of culturally-grounded assessment tools to measure family functioning and mental health in Kenya
Kenya
- Parenting Program Evaluation: Monrovia, Liberia
Publications
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Kim AW, Rieder AD, Cooper-Vince CE, Kakuhikire B, Baguma C, Satinsky EN, et al. Maternal adverse childhood experiences, child mental health, and the mediating effect of maternal depression: A cross-sectional, population-based study in rural, southwestern Uganda. American Journal of Biological Anthropology. 2023 Sep;182(1):19–31.Giusto A, Vander Missen MR, Kosgei G, Njiriri F, Puffer E, Kamaru Kwobah E, et al. Peer-delivered Problem-solving Therapy for Adolescent Mental Health in Kenya: Adaptation for Context and Training of Peer-counselors. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology. 2023 Sep;51(9):1243–56.Kaiser BN, Kaufman J, Wall JT, Healy EAF, Ayuku D, Aarons GA, et al. Assessing ad-hoc adaptations' alignment with therapeutic goals: a qualitative study of lay counselor-delivered family therapy in Eldoret, Kenya. Implementation Science Communications. 2023 Aug;4(1):105.Joshi D, Aschner A, Atkinson L, Halili-Sychangco D, Duku E, Puffer ES, et al. Predictors of harsh parenting practices and inter-partner conflict during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ontario, Canada: a cross-sectional analysis from the Ontario Parent Survey. Bmj Open. 2023 Aug;13(8):e066840.
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