Beatrice Bano

Miss Beatrice Bano has a BA in Psychology from San Raffaele University, IT; she holds a Master’s Degree in Cognitive Psychology in Health Communication from Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), CH and a Master in Emergency Psychology. She is a psychotherapist in training.

She spent 1 and a half years in the field of research at USI, including the adaptation of a WHO intervention to informal caregivers in Ticino. She’s currently a PhD student in co-tutorship between USI (Faculty of Biomedicine-Institute of Public Health) and the WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Mental Health and Service Evaluation at University of Verona (Faculty of Psychiatry-Department of Neuroscience).

The Swiss National Science Foundation has awarded a Doc.CH grant to Miss Bano, for her project on the adaptation and implementation of a mental health care intervention developed by the WHO (titled: "Fill the implementation gap: a mixed methods study of theory-based adaptation and implementation approaches and processes of a low-dose psychosocial intervention for caregivers": proj. ref. P000PS_219019) co-supervised by Professor Emiliano Albanese of Università della Svizzera italiana and Dr. Marianna Purgato of the University of Verona.