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Matumbato Rd, Nairobi,KE

Welcome to AMHRTF
Africa Mental Health Training and Research Foundation
Africa Mental Health Training and Research Foundation (AMHRTF) is a non-governmental organization based in Kenya, dedicated to research in mental and neurological health as well as substance use research to generate evidence for policy and best practice in the provision of affordable, appropriate, available and accessible mental health services.
AMHRTF brings together the widest possible spectrum of professionals from both mental health and non-mental health fields to work together under one roof working in research and interventions in mental health.
- Community Mental Health
- Integrated Approach to Non-communicable Diseases Interventions
- Early childhood development
- School mental health
- Mental health in physical conditions
- Mental health in children
- Genetics and Genomics
- Suicide
- Family conflict/violence
- Mental health in old age
- Mental health in pregnancy & after delivery
- Cost-effective biological and psychosocial Interventions
- Psychotrauma & Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and add (PTSD)
- Life transitions
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About Us
Establishing AMHRTF was conceptualized in the year 2000 by Professor David M. Ndetei, Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Nairobi. It all started when Prof Ndetei and three of his students came together to volunteer their expertise to improve the mental health of underprivileged Kenyans, initially through advocacy. As of today, Prof has heavily invested in the training of Psychiatrists in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Nairobi. His efforts have contributed to Kenya having the best psychiatrists population ratio of any country south of the Sahara and outside South Africa (Approx. 1:500,000).
Successful stories
AMHRTF collaboration with Columbia University New York, USA & Makueni County:
Africa Mental Health Research and Training Foundation in collaboration with Columbia University New York, USA and the Department of Health of Makueni County was implementing a research study titled Multi-Sectorial Stakeholder TEAM Approach to Scale-Up Community Mental Health in Kenya – Building on Locally Generated Evidence and Lessons Learned (TEAM). These are some of the Success Stories from the project .