Megan Ramaiya, MSc, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
Psychiatry
School of Medicine

Education & Training

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• Clinical Psychology Training Program University of California, San Francisco 06/2023
• PhD Clinical Psychology University of Washington 08/2022
• MSc Global Health Duke University 05/2015
• BS Biology, Global Health Duke University 05/2009

Interests

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• emotion regulation
• implementation science
• substance use
• global mental health

Grants and Projects

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• Integration of substance use and mental health services for justice-involved young women in Brazil, NIDA, 2023-2025
• Interpersonal emotion regulation processes in suicidal Nepali youth, NIH, 2019-2021

Publications (17)

Top publication keywords:
HIV InfectionsSocial StigmaTelemedicineMotivationMedication AdherenceHIV SeropositivityHaitiAntiretroviral Therapy, Highly ActiveRural PopulationNepalMental HealthPatient Acceptance of Health CareCommunicationEarthquakesSuicidal Ideation

• A Family-Based Mental Health Navigator Intervention for Youth in the Child Welfare System: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.
  JMIR research protocols 2023 Tolou-Shams M, Ramaiya M, Lara Salas J, Ezimora I, Shumway M, Duerr Berrick J, Aguilera A, Borsari B, Dauria E, Friedling N, Holmes C, Grandi A
• Feasibility and initial impact of single-session internet-delivered acceptance vs change skills for emotions for stress- and trauma-related problems: a randomized controlled trial.
  Behavioural and cognitive psychotherapy 2023 McLean CL, Ruork AK, Ramaiya MK, Fruzzetti AE
• The Association Between Expanded ACEs and Behavioral Health Outcomes Among Youth at First Time Legal System Contact.
  Research on child and adolescent psychopathology 2022 Folk JB, Ramaiya M, Holloway E, Ramos L, Marshall BDL, Kemp K, Li Y, Bath E, Mitchell DK, Tolou-Shams M
• Feasibility and Acceptability of a School-Based Emotion Regulation Prevention Intervention (READY-Nepal) for Secondary School Students in Post-Earthquake Nepal.
  International journal of environmental research and public health 2022 Ramaiya MK, McLean CL, Pokharel M, Thapa K, Schmidt MA, Berg M, Simoni JM, Rao D, Kohrt BA
• An EMR-based alert with brief provider-led ART adherence counseling in Haiti: effects on information, motivation, and behavioral skills (IMB) and patient-provider communication (PPC).
  AIDS care 2022 Wang L, Ramaiya MK, Puttkammer N, Chery JM, Dervis W, Balan JG, Simoni JM

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• Alcohol Use and Antiretroviral Therapy Non-Adherence Among Adults Living with HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
  AIDS and behavior 2020 Velloza J, Kemp CG, Aunon FM, Ramaiya MK, Creegan E, Simoni JM
• Patient-Provider Communication and Information, Motivation, and Behavioral Skills in HIV-Positive Adults Initiating Antiretroviral Therapy in Haiti.
  Journal of the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care 2020 Ramaiya MK, Haight E, Simoni JM, Chéry JM, Dervis W, Genna W, Dubé JG, Calixte G, Balan JG, Honoré JG, Puttkammer N
• Depression and anxiety among HIV-positive men who have sex with men and men who have sex with women in China.
  AIDS care 2019 Aunon FM, Simoni JM, Yang JP, Shiu C, Chen WT, Edmunds SR, Ramaiya M, Cheng J, Zhao H
• eHealth for Stigma Reduction Efforts Designed to Improve Engagement in Care for People Living with HIV.
  Current HIV/AIDS reports 2018 Rao D, Frey S, Ramaiya M
• A dialectical behavior therapy skills intervention for women with suicidal behaviors in rural Nepal: A single-case experimental design series.
  Journal of clinical psychology 2018 Ramaiya MK, McLean C, Regmi U, Fiorillo D, Robins CJ, Kohrt BA
• Implementation research on HIV adherence interventions: no time to wait.
  The Lancet. Infectious diseases 2017 Simoni JM, Aunon FM, Kemp CG, Kutner BA, Ramaiya MK, Velloza J, Yang JP
• A Cultural Adaptation of Dialectical Behavior Therapy in Nepal.
  Cognitive and behavioral practice 2017 Ramaiya MK, Fiorillo D, Regmi U, Robins CJ, Kohrt BA
• A Qualitative Exploration of the Mental Health and Psychosocial Contexts of HIV-Positive Adolescents in Tanzania.
  PloS one 2016 Ramaiya MK, Sullivan KA, O' Donnell K, Cunningham CK, Shayo AM, Mmbaga BT, Dow DE
• Development of a scoring system for non-specialist ratings of clinical competence in global mental health: a qualitative process evaluation of the Enhancing Assessment of Common Therapeutic Factors (ENACT) scale.
  Global mental health (Cambridge, England) 2015 Kohrt BA, Ramaiya MK, Rai S, Bhardwaj A, Jordans MJD
• Therapist competence in global mental health: Development of the ENhancing Assessment of Common Therapeutic factors (ENACT) rating scale.
  Behaviour research and therapy 2015 Kohrt BA, Jordans MJ, Rai S, Shrestha P, Luitel NP, Ramaiya MK, Singla DR, Patel V
• Experiences of women of color with a nurse patient navigation program for linkage and engagement in HIV care.
  AIDS patient care and STDs 2014 Sullivan KA, Schultz K, Ramaiya M, Berger M, Parnell H, Quinlivan EB
• Morphologically cryptic biological species within the liverwort Frullania asagrayana.
  American journal of botany 2010 Ramaiya M, Johnson MG, Shaw B, Heinrichs J, Hentschel J, von Konrat M, Davison PG, Shaw AJ