Research

I am a medical anthropologist and mixed methods researcher in the Division of Global Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School.

SELECTED PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

Kidia K, Machando D, Dzoro V, Chibanda D, Abas M, Manda E, Mutengerere A, Nyandoro T, Chawarika M, Majichi D, van Dijk JH, Jack H. Rural Friendship Bench: A qualitative study in Zaka district, Zimbabwe. Soc Sci Med (May 2024)

Healy M, Kidia K. The Power in Our Words: Reducing Bias in Clinical Communication. Am Fam Physician (May 2023)

Healy M, Richard A, & Kidia K, How to Reduce Stigma and Bias in Clinical Communication: a Narrative Review. J Gen Intern Med (May 2022).

Ikeda D, Kidia K, Agins B, Haberer J, Tsai A, Roll out of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis – a gateway to mental health promotion? BMJ Global Health (Dec 2021)

Chibanda, D., Jack, H. E., Langhaug, L., Alem, A., Abas, M., Mangezi, W., Hanlon C., Sorsdahl K., Kagee A., Weiss H., Musesengwa R., Kidia K., Udedi M., Nhamo D., Fekadu W., Demissie M., & Lund, C. (2021). Towards racial equity in global mental health research. The Lancet Psychiatry, 8(7), 553-555.

Abas M., Weobong B., Burgess R., Kienzler H., Jack H., Kidia K., Musesengwa R., Petersen I., Collins P., Nakimuli-Mpungu E., COVID-19 and global mental health, Lancet Psychiatry (June 2021)

Croome N., Potter L., Bere T., … Chibanda D., Abas M., Kidia K. (2020). Medication beliefs among people living with HIV taking antiretroviral treatment in Zimbabwe: A qualitative study. Journal of Global Health Reports.

Menon, A. A., Berg, D. D., Brea, E. J., Deutsch, A. J., Kidia, K., Thurber, E. G., … & Gay, E. B. (2020). A Case of COVID-19 and Pneumocystis jirovecii Co-infection. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

Rwafa-Madzvamutse, C., Kidia, K., Gureje, O., Mangezi, W., & Jack, H. E. (2020). Leadership and management training for African psychiatrists in the era of task-sharing.  Lancet Psychiatry.

Lovett, A., Kwon, H. R., Kidia, K., Machando, D., Crooks, M., Fricchione, G., … & Jack, H. E. (2019). Mental health of people detained within the justice system in Africa: systematic review and meta-analysis. International Journal of Mental Health Systems, 13(1), 31.

Kidia, K. (2018). The future of health in Zimbabwe. Global Health Action, 11(1), 1496888.

Jack, H. E., Fricchione, G., Chibanda, D., Thornicroft, G., Machando, D., & Kidia, K. (2018). Mental health of incarcerated people: a global call to action. Lancet Psychiatry, 5(5), 391-392.

Kidia, K., Machando, D., Mangezi, W., Hendler, R., Crooks, M., Abas, M., … & Jack, H. (2017). Mental health in Zimbabwe: a health systems analysis. Lancet Psychiatry, 4(11), 876-886.

Hendler, R., Kidia, K., Machando, D., Crooks, M., Mangezi, W., Abas, M., … & Jack, H. (2016). “We are not really marketing mental health”: mental health advocacy in Zimbabwe. PLoS One, 11(9), e0161860.

Bere, T., Nyamayaro, P., Magidson, J. F., Chibanda, D., Chingono, A., Munjoma, R., Ndhlovu, C.E., O’Cleirgh C., Kidia, K., Safren, S., Abas, M.. (2017). Cultural adaptation of a cognitive-behavioural intervention to improve adherence to antiretroviral therapy among people living with HIV/AIDS in Zimbabwe: Nzira Itsva. Journal of Health Psychology, 22(10), 1265-1276.

Ferrand, R. A., Meghji, J., Kidia, K., Dauya, E., Bandason, T., Mujuru, H., … & Kranzer, K. (2016). The effectiveness of routine opt-out HIV testing for children in Harare, Zimbabwe. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (1999), 71(1), e24.

Toska, E., Cluver, L. D., Hodes, R., & Kidia, K. K. (2015). Sex and secrecy: How HIV-status disclosure affects safe sex among HIV-positive adolescents. AIDS Care, 27(Sup1), 47-58.

Cluver, L. D., Hodes, R. J., Toska, E., Kidia, K. K., Orkin, F. M., Sherr, L., & Meinck, F. (2015). ‘HIV is like a tsotsi. ARVs are your guns’: associations between HIV-disclosure and adherence to antiretroviral treatment among adolescents in South Africa. AIDS.

Kidia, K., Machando, D., Bere, T., Macpherson, K., Nyamayaro, P., Potter, L., … & Safren, S. (2015). ‘I was thinking too much’: experiences of HIV‐positive adults with common mental disorders and poor adherence to antiretroviral therapy in Zimbabwe. Tropical Medicine & International Health, 20(7), 903-913.

Kidia, K., Ndhlovu, C., Jombo, S., Abas, M., & Makadzange, A. T. (2015). The mental health of HIV-positive adolescents. Lancet Psychiatry, 2(6), 487.

Kranzer, K., Meghji, J., Bandason, T., Dauya, E., Mungofa, S., Busza, J., Hatzold, K., Kidia, K., Mujuru, H., & Ferrand, R. A. (2014). Barriers to provider-initiated testing and counselling for children in a high HIV prevalence setting: a mixed methods study. PLoS Med, 11(5), e1001649.

Kidia, K. K., Mupambireyi, Z., Cluver, L., Ndhlovu, C. E., Borok, M., & Ferrand, R. A. (2014). HIV status disclosure to perinatally-infected adolescents in Zimbabwe: a qualitative study of adolescent and healthcare worker perspectives. PLoS One, 9(1), e87322.