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.

My work lies at the intersection of implementation science applied to mental health interventions, public mental health, and psychotherapy.