Research groups
Julia R Pozuelo
Visiting Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Julia Ruiz Pozuelo, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a member of the Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Group at the University of Oxford.
Julia’s research interests lie at the intersection of psychiatry and development economics. Her work focuses on developing and implementing cost-effective and scalable interventions to treat depression in low-resource settings. She is also interested in the relationship between depression, poverty, and risk-taking among adolescents.
Julia holds a BSc in Economics from Carlos III University of Madrid, an MSc in Economics for Development from the University of Oxford, and a PhD in Psychiatry from the University of Oxford. She is an honorary researcher in the MRC/Wits-Agincourt Unit at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa and a researcher at the Centre for the Study of African Economies at the University of Oxford.
Recent publications
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Digital delivery of Behavioural Activation therapy to overcome depression and facilitate social and economic transitions of adolescents in South Africa (the DoBAt study): protocol for a pilot randomised controlled trial
Journal article
RUIZ POZUELO J. et al, (2022), BMJ Open
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Do High Aspirations Lead to Better Outcomes? Evidence from a Longitudinal Survey of Adolescents in Peru
Journal article
RUIZ POZUELO J. and Graham C., (2021), Journal of Population Economics
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Do High Aspirations Lead to Better Outcomes? Evidence from a Longitudinal Survey of Adolescents in Peru
Journal article
RUIZ POZUELO J. and Graham C., (2021), Journal of Population Economics
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Adolescent Health Series
: Adolescent Neurocognitive Development in Western and Sub‐Saharan Africa
Journal article
Pozuelo JR. and Kilford EJ., (2021), Tropical Medicine & International Health
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Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis: Depressive Symptoms and Risky Behaviours among Adolescents in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Journal article
RUIZ POZUELO J. et al, (2021), Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry