Eve Puffer
Eve Puffer
Director, Duke Center for Global Mental Health
Pamela and Jack Egan Associate Professor
Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
Associate Research Professor of 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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Adapting LGBTQ-Affirmative Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to improve mental health and PrEP engagement among gay and bisexual men in Guatemala
Guatemala
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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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Johnson SL, Rieder AD, Rasmussen JM, Mansoor M, Quick KN, Proeschold-Bell RJ, et al. A Pilot Study of the Coping Together Virtual Family Intervention: Exploring Changes in Family Functioning and Individual Well-Being. Research on child and adolescent psychopathology. 2024 Jul;52(7):1–16.Satinsky EN, Kakuhikire B, Baguma C, Cooper-Vince CE, Rasmussen JD, Ashaba S, et al. Caregiver preferences for physically harsh discipline of children in rural Uganda. Journal of family violence. 2024 Jul;39(5):861–74.Bosqui T, Abdulrahim S, Afifi RA, Ager A, Betancourt TS, Carr A, et al. Psychological and Social Suffering of Another Generation of Palestinian Children Living under Occupation: An Urgent Call to Advocate. Health and human rights. 2024 Jun;26(1):147–50.Johnson SL, Rasmussen JM, Mansoor M, Ibrahim H, Rono W, Goel P, et al. Correlates of Intimate Partner Violence Victimization and Perpetration in Adolescents and Young Adults in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review. Trauma, violence & abuse. 2024 Apr;25(2):1168–83.
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