Research

Dr. Ramaiya is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), where she conducts international research with marginalized youth and families involved in the justice system. She has led multiple independent studies on best practices for developing, adapting, and implementing evidence-based therapies (e.g., Dialectical Behavior Therapy) for marginalized populations in South and Southeast Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and resource-strained environments in the United States. She has specific research expertise in training para-professionals (“lay” providers) with little-to-no mental health training to deliver high-quality services for complex mental health conditions in marginalized communities. For her dissertation research (funded by the National Institutes of Health), she examined barriers to delivery of suicide prevention services (e.g., stigma and competency) by lay providers in Nepal. She has published 14 peer-reviewed journal articles and dozens of scholarly conference presentations. Her research has been funded nationally by multiple grants from the National Institutes of Health, American Psychological Association, and the U.S. Department of Education.