Dr Laura Asher

Dr Laura Asher is a clinical associate professor of public health in the School of Medicine at the University of Nottingham and honorary consultant in public health medicine at the Department of Health and Social Care. Her main research interests are the development and evaluation of community-based psychosocial interventions for people with severe mental health conditions in low and middle-income countries. She is particularly interested in models of care delivered by lay workers and people with lived experience of mental health conditions. She enjoys working in close collaboration with colleagues in Ethiopia, South Africa and Uganda. Dr Asher is co-PI of the SAMRC/MRC-funded Peer-led Recovery Groups for People with Psychosis in South Africa (PRIZE) randomised feasibility trial and was PI of the Wellcome-funded Community-based Rehabilitation Intervention for people with Schizophrenia in Ethiopia (RISE) cluster-randomised trial.