Faculty

**On leave Fall 2025**

Adam Brown is Professor of Psychology at The New School for Social Reserach. He has extensive experience developing programs to promote mental health awareness, providing trainings, technical guidance, and support in the creation, implementation, and evaluation of scalable, evidence-based strategies that can delivered in a wide range of contexts by non-specialists. 

Head of the New School Center for Global Mental Health and the Global Mental Health graduate minor, Dr. Brown focuses his research on the adaptation of mental health and psychosocial interventions that can be delivered globally by non-mental health professionals, and works closely with cross-sector partners to carry out this work. Additionally, he has extensive experience in the study of traumatic stress and the identification of factors that contribute to mental health risks and resilience.

He has served as a consultant for organizations such as the United Nations, UNICEF, and Amnesty International. He is the recipient of grants from the National Institute of Health, USAID, Fulbright, and numerous private foundations. His work has appeared in numerous peer-reviewed journals and as book chapters.

PhD 2008, New School for Social Research MA 2004, New School for Social Research BA 1999, University of Oregon

Selected Publications: 

Kohrt, B....Brown, A. (2025). Expanding the non-clinical mental health workforce: Protocol for a cluster randomized trial of a psychological intervention delivered by community based organizations in New York City (RECOUP-NY). Psychiatric Research and Clinical Practice. 

Greene, M.C....Brown, A. (2024). Comparing implementatio strategies for training and supervisign non-specialists in Group Problem Management Plus:A hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial in Colombia. Global Mental Health.    

Sangraula, M.....Brown, A., & Kohrt, B. (2024). The impact of task-sharing scalable mental health interventions on non-specialist providers. A Scoping Review. Global Mental Health.    

Rhode, J...Brown, A., & Kleim, B. (2024). Efficacy of digitial self-ffficacy training in stressed university students. A randomized control trial. Plos One. 

Pedersen, G., Pfeffer, K., Brown, A., Carswell, K., Schafer, A., Willhoite, A., & Kohrt, B. (2022). Identifying core competencies for remote delivery of psychological interventions: A rapid review. Psychiatric Services

Heyen, J.M., Weigl, N., Müller, M., Müller, S., Eberle, U., Manoliu, A.,Vetter, S., Brown, A., Berger, T., & Kleim, B. (2021). A multi-module web-based COVID-19 Anxiety and Stress Resilience Training (COAST): Single cohort feasibility study in first responders. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 

Rahman, N., & Brown, A. (2021). Mental Time Travel in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Current Gaps and Future Directions. Frontiers in Psychology. 

McBride, K.A., Harrison, S., Mahata, S., Pfeffer, K., Cardamone, F., Ngigi, T., Kohrt, B.A., Pedersen, G. A., Greene, M.C., Viljoen, D., Muneghina, O., & Brown, A. (2021). Adapting Problem Management Plus (PM+) during COVID-19 in New York City, Europe and East Africa. Intervention. 

Paersch, C., Schulz, A., Wilhelm, F. H., Brown, A. D., & Kleim, B. (2021). Recalling Autobiographical Self­-Efficacy Episodes Boosts Reappraisal-Effects on Negative Emotional Memories. Emotion. 
Parnes, M., Eubank, J., Brown, A., & Boals, A. (2020). Heterogeneity in temporal self-appraisals following exposure to potentially traumatic life-events: A latent profile analysis. Journal of Affective Disorders.

Marmar, C. R., Brown, A. D., Qian, M., Laska, E., Siegel, C., Li, M., Abu-Amara, D., Tsiartas, T., Richey, C., Smith, J., Knoth, B., & Vergyri, D. (2019). Speech‐based markers for posttraumatic stress disorder in US veterans. Depression and Anxiety, 36, 607-616. 

Brown, A. D., Schultebraucks, K., Qian, M., Li, M., Horesh, D., Siegel, C., Brody, Y., Amer, A., Lev-Ari, R., Mas, F., Marmar, C. R., & Farmer, J. (2020). Mental health disorders and utilization of mental healthcare services in United Nations personnel. Global Mental Health, 7

Bagrodia, R., Knuckey, S.. Satterthwaite, M., Singh Sawhney, R., & Brown, A. (2018). Crucial need to improve mental health research and training for human rights advocates. Lancet: Psychiatry.

Krans, J., Peeters, M., Näring, G., Brown, A., de Bree, J., & van Minnen, A. (2018). Examining temporal alterations in Social Anxiety Disorder and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: The relation between autobiographical memory, future goals, and current self-descriptions. Journal of Anxiety Disorders.  .  

Rodin, R., Bonanno, G., Rahman, N., Kouri, N., Bryant, R.A., Marmar, C., & Brown, A. (2017). Expressive flexibility in combat veterans with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Depression. Journal of Affective Disorders, 207, 236-241.  

Brown, A., Kouri, N., Rahman, N., Jocelyne, A., Bryant, R., & Marmar, C. (2016). Enhancing self-efficacy improves episodic future thinking and social decision making in combat veterans with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Psychiatry Research.  

Joscelyne, A., Knuckey, S., Satterthwaite, M., Li, M., Qian, M., Bryant, R.A., & Brown, A.D. (2015). Mental health functioning in the human rights field: Findings from an international internet-based survey. PLOS One.  

Additional Writing   

"Remembering and Forgetting in Transit: The Interplay between Physical Spaces and Memory and Identity," EuropeNow, 2021.

Can Digital Technology Support Mental Health with Equity? A New Approach to Task-Sharing in NYC in the Pandemic Era, 2021, India China Institute, Pandemic Discourse

"From the Couch to the Community: The Emergence of Peer-to-Peer Therapy for Refugees in Switzerland," EuropeNow, October 29, 2019.

"Translating Socio-Cognitive Models of Agency into Migration and Mental Health: A Framework for Individual and Community Empowerment," EuropeNow, October 29, 2019.