Melanie Amna Abas is a British psychiatric epidemiologist who is Professor of Global Mental Health at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience.
[1] She moved to the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine for her graduate studies, earning a master's degree in epidemiology.
[3] For example, she studied the effectiveness of the friendship bench mental health programme, and showed that co-morbid anxiety was a predictor of persistent depression.
[4] She argued that the psychological treatments proposed for use in lower middle income country and resource-limited settings (e.g. problem solving and interpersonal therapy) do not target fear, avoidance and worry.
[citation needed] At the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, Amna Abas established a research group focused on scalable global mental health interventions.