Anna Larsen, PhD, MPH
I am an epidemiologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington. My research primarily focuses on improving mental health outcomes throughout the life course to support family wellbeing and thriving in low- and middle-income settings, with emphasis on: 1. men’s/father’s mental health and parenting skills, 2. digital mental health interventions to support families affected by early psychosis, 3. integrating perinatal mental health services into maternal-child health care. Current projects are based in East and West Africa. My work utilizes methods ranging from user-centered design of digital mental health interventions to advanced epidemiologic and statistical methods.
Education
Postdoctoral Fellowship, UW School of Medicine/School of Public Health, 2022-2024
PhD, Epidemiology, University of Washington, 2018-2022
MPH, Epidemiology (Global Health), Columbia University, 2013-2015
BS, Biology (Physiology), Public Health, University of Washington, 2006-2010
Department Affiliations
Other Affiliations
Global Center for Integrated Health of Women, Adolescents, and Children (Global WACh)
Scholarly Expertise
- Access to health care
- Adolescent/young adult
- Depression
- Global mental health
- Health behaviors
- Health disparities
- Health risk behavior(s)
- Implementation science
- Low resource settings
- Men's health
- Mobile mental health
- Perinatal mental health
- Perinatal mental health and reproductive psychiatry
- Pragmatic clinical trials
- Psychosocial outcomes
- Randomized controlled trial
- Schizophrenia
- Women's health
- Psychiatric epidemiology
Recent Publications
(2026 May)
J Anim Sci Technol 68(3): 857-874
Li W, Murphy B, Larsen A
(2026 Jun 15)
Community Ment Health J
Tauscher J, Larsen A, Struve G, Brian R, Guler J, Ben-Zeev D
(2026)
PLoS One 21(6): e0349732
Karume AK, Ngumbau N, Ongeri L, Neema A, Kaggiah A, Owaga D, Maina C, Ndambuki C, Wang Y, Pothan L, Rose A, Larsen A, Masyuko S, Richardson BA, Wagner AD, Bhat A, Ronen K, Kinuthia J
(2026 Jun 9)
Int J Obes (Lond)
Mohamed KE, Larsen AT, Thudium CS, Bezerra A, Karsdal MA, Bay-Jensen AC, Henriksen K
(2026)
PLOS Glob Public Health 6(5): e0006466
Khwepeya M, Pintye J, Abuna F, Bhat A, Enquobahrie DA, Gomez L, John-Stewart G, Kinuthia J, Marwa M, Ngumbau N, Odhiambo B, Watoyi S, Stern J, Larsen A
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