Current Work

Matenyeh supports faculty and fellows at GBHI to conduct research projects in East Africa, including HMCA-DP and BRIDGE Africa.
 

Personal Hero

My mother

Words of Strength

Making others feel welcome

Vision

Matenyeh's passion for improving mental health outcomes of under-served populations drives her commitment to community-informed capacity building in low-and-middle income countries.

Strategy

Matenyeh previously worked as a Central Coordinator for the NIHR Research Support Service (RSS) at Imperial College London in the UK. Prior to working at Imperial, Matenyeh was a Research Program Coordinator for the CLEaR research team at the Johns Hopkins University focusing on Alzheimer's Disease research studies.

Motivation

Matenyeh hopes to use her lived personal experience as a former African refugee and professional mental healthcare and research experience to inform her contributions to global brain health capacity building.