Profile
**On leave Fall 2025**
Adam Brown is Professor of Psychology听at The New School for Social Reserach. He has extensive experience developing programs to promote听mental听health听awareness, providing trainings, technical guidance, and support in the creation, implementation, and evaluation of scalable, evidence-based strategies that can delivered in a wide range of contexts by non-specialists.听
Head of the 听and the Global Mental Health graduate minor, Dr. Brown focuses his research on the adaptation of听mental听health and psychosocial听interventions that can be delivered globally by non-mental听health听professionals, and works closely with听cross-sector听partners to carry out this work. Additionally, he has extensive experience in the study of traumatic stress and the identification of factors that contribute to听mental听health听risks and resilience.
He has served as a consultant for organizations such as the United Nations, UNICEF, and Amnesty International. He is the recipient of grants from the National Institute of听Health, USAID, Fulbright, and numerous private foundations.听His work has appeared in numerous peer-reviewed journals and as book chapters.
Degrees Held
PhD 2008, New School for Social Research
MA 2004, New School for Social Research
BA 1999, 好色先生 of Oregon
Professional Affiliation
Association for Psychological Science
International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies听
Society of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition
Skate Mind Project听
Recent Publications
Selected Publications:听
Kohrt, B....Brown, A. (2025). Expanding the non-clinical mental health workforce: Protocol for a cluster randomized trial of a psychological intervention delivered by community based organizations in New York City (RECOUP-NY).听Psychiatric Research and Clinical Practice.听
Greene, M.C....Brown, A. (2024). Comparing implementatio strategies for training and supervisign non-specialists in Group Problem Management Plus:A hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial in Colombia.听Global Mental Health.听 听听
Sangraula, M.....Brown, A., & Kohrt, B. (2024). The impact of task-sharing scalable mental health interventions on non-specialist providers. A Scoping Review.听Global Mental Health.听听 听
Rhode, J...Brown, A., & Kleim, B. (2024). Efficacy of digitial self-ffficacy training in stressed university students. A randomized control trial.听Plos One.听
Pedersen, G., Pfeffer, K., Brown, A., Carswell, K., Schafer, A., Willhoite, A., & Kohrt, B. (2022). Identifying core competencies for remote delivery of psychological interventions: A rapid review.听Psychiatric Services
Heyen, J.M., Weigl, N., M眉ller, M., M眉ller, S., Eberle, U., Manoliu, A.,Vetter, S., Brown, A., Berger, T., & Kleim, B. (2021). A multi-module web-based COVID-19 Anxiety and Stress Resilience Training (COAST): Single cohort feasibility study in first responders.听Journal of Medical Internet Research.听
Rahman, N., & Brown, A. (2021). Mental Time Travel in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Current Gaps and Future Directions.听Frontiers in Psychology.听
McBride, K.A., Harrison, S., Mahata, S., Pfeffer, K., Cardamone, F., Ngigi, T., Kohrt, B.A., Pedersen, G. A., Greene, M.C., Viljoen, D., Muneghina, O., & Brown, A. (2021). Adapting Problem Management Plus (PM+) during COVID-19 in New York City, Europe and East Africa.听Intervention.听
Paersch, C., Schulz, A., Wilhelm, F. H., Brown, A. D., & Kleim, B. (2021). Recalling Autobiographical Self颅-Efficacy Episodes Boosts Reappraisal-Effects on Negative Emotional Memories.听Emotion.听
Marmar, C. R., Brown, A. D., Qian, M., Laska, E., Siegel, C., Li, M., Abu-Amara, D., Tsiartas, T., Richey, C., Smith, J., Knoth, B., & Vergyri, D. (2019). Speech鈥恇ased markers for posttraumatic stress disorder in US veterans.听Depression and Anxiety, 36, 607-616.听
Brown, A. D., Schultebraucks, K., Qian, M., Li, M., Horesh, D., Siegel, C., Brody, Y., Amer, A., Lev-Ari, R., Mas, F., Marmar, C. R., & Farmer, J. (2020). Mental health disorders and utilization of mental healthcare services in United Nations personnel.听Global Mental Health, 7
Bagrodia,听R., Knuckey, S.. Satterthwaite, M., Singh Sawhney, R., & Brown, A. (2018).听Crucial need to improve mental health research and training for human rights advocates.听Lancet: Psychiatry.
Krans, J., Peeters, M., N盲ring, G., Brown, A., de Bree, J., & van Minnen, A. (2018).听Examining temporal alterations in Social Anxiety Disorder and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: The relation between autobiographical memory, future goals, and current self-descriptions.听Journal of Anxiety Disorders.听 .听听
Rodin, R., Bonanno, G., Rahman, N., Kouri, N., Bryant, R.A., Marmar, C., & Brown, A. (2017).听Expressive flexibility in combat veterans with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Depression.听Journal of Affective Disorders, 207, 236-241. 听
Brown, A., Kouri, N., Rahman, N., Jocelyne, A., Bryant, R., & Marmar, C. (2016).听Enhancing self-efficacy improves episodic future thinking and social decision making in combat veterans with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.听Psychiatry Research. 听
Joscelyne, A., Knuckey, S., Satterthwaite, M., Li, M., Qian, M., Bryant, R.A., & Brown, A.D. (2015).听Mental health functioning in the human rights field: Findings from an international internet-based survey.听PLOS One.听听
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Additional Writing听 听
"Remembering and Forgetting in Transit: The Interplay between Physical Spaces and Memory and Identity," EuropeNow, 2021.
, 2021, India China Institute,听Pandemic Discourse
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"Translating Socio-Cognitive Models of Agency into Migration and Mental Health: A Framework for Individual and Community Empowerment,"听EuropeNow, October 29, 2019.
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Performances and Appearances
Selected Media Appearance听
NPR coverage of
Quoted in "," Dallas Morning News
Featured in "Revolutionizing Care Through New Design Dialogues" Re:D, Spring 2021听
Appearance on the BBC World News听discussing Simone Biles鈥 decision to听remove herself from the Tokyo Olympics
Featured in "COVID-19鈥檚 Lasting Effects on Mental Health for Good and Bad," Wall Street Journal, March 8 2021听听
Appearance on the BBC World News听discussing mental health impacts of COVID-19 globally听
Interviewed on Khan Academy about staying resilient during COVID-19, May 12, 2020听听
Quoted in "," The Economist, February 24, 2020.
""听Research Matters, October 22, 2018.
Research Interests
global mental health, capacity building, implementation science, scalable interventions, digital tools, forced displacement, emergency and humanitarian responses, trauma, resilience, memory听
Awards And Honors
Association for Psychological Science Fellow, 2023
Fulbright Specialist Scholar, 好色先生 of Bahamas-North,听2022 ()
Fulbright Specialist Scholar, 好色先生 of Bern, 2017 &听2018
Fulbright Senior Scholar, 好色先生 of New South Wales, 2010听
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