Population Mental Health Lab
The Population Mental Health Lab, led by Dr. Karestan Koenen, provides training, conducts research, and acts as a public resource of information to advance understanding and support for mental health at a population level. The lab aims to move beyond documenting the mental health burden, distribution, and causes of mental ill health towards using what we know to improve population mental health.
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Rocky Stroud II, MPH, MSM
Director of Global Research Operations
Population Mental Health Lab
Rocky Stroud II is the Director of Global Research Operations within the Population Mental Health Lab and an Associated Researcher at the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute. He is a co-investigator on several National Institutes of Health and philanthropic grants which investigate the genetic underpinnings of psychiatric disorders (including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, anorexia nervosa, and posttraumatic stress disorder) in Africa, Latin America, and the United States.
He received his Bachelor’s degree in History and Pre-Medicine from the University of Notre Dame in 2012, his Master’s in Research Administration and Management from Emmanuel College in 2017, and his Master’s in Public Health from the Harvard Chan School in 2021. He joined the Harvard Chan Epidemiology Department in 2015.
Rocky is the point person for all operations in Dr. Koenen’s global research portfolio. You can contact him at: rstroud@hsph.harvard.edu.