Research Interests for Eve S. Puffer

Dr. Puffer is a global mental health researcher and a licensed clinical psychologist. Her research focuses on developing and evaluating integrated community-based interventions to promote child mental health, improve family functioning, and prevent HIV risk behavior. Her work includes studies with families with young children through those with adolescents, as well as with couples. She has conducted much of this work in rural Kenya and is an investigator on multiple studies of child mental health, family well-being, and parenting interventions in Thailand, Ethiopia, Liberia, South Sudan, and Iraq. Among Dr. Puffer's primary collaborators are the International Rescue Committee, a humanitarian organization, the Women's Institute for Secondary Education and Research in Kenya, and AMPATH, a consortium between North American medical schools and Moi University in Kenya.

Keywords:

Adaptation, Psychological, Adolescent, Adolescent Behavior, Adult, Advisory Committees, Analgesics, Opioid, Caregivers, Child, Child Abuse, Sexual, Child and family well-being, Child mental health, Child, Orphaned, Children, Cognitive Therapy, Communication, Community Networks, Community- and family-based interventions, Community-Based Participatory Research, Community-Institutional Relations, Cooperative Behavior, Cross-Sectional Studies, Decision Making, Family, Female, Global mental health, Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, Health Promotion, Health Resources, HIV Infections, HIV prevention, HIV Seropositivity, Hospitalization, Humans, Kenya, Male, Mental Health, Metabolic Detoxication, Drug, Middle Aged, Muser Mentor, Parental Death, Power (Psychology), Preventive Health Services, Psychotherapy, Group, Questionnaires, Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic, Recurrence, Refugees, Residence Characteristics, Risk Factors, Risk-Taking, Role, Rural Health, Rural Population, Self Efficacy, Sexual Behavior, Sexual Partners, Social Support, Socioeconomic Factors, Spirituality, Stress, Psychological, Substance Abuse Treatment Centers, Substance-Related Disorders, Treatment Outcome, Women, Young Adult

Recent Publications   (search)

1. Sim, A; Puffer, E; Eagling-Peche, S; Lwin, KZ; Melendez-Torres, GJ; Vyas, S; Jirapramukpitak, T; Lachman, J; Soe, ST; Moo, TB; Soan, M; Chalk, J; Van Vijfeijken, H, Parenting on the border: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial of a trauma-informed, edutainment-enhanced intervention to improve parenting and mental health among migrant and displaced caregivers in Thailand, Ssm Mental Health, vol. 8 (December, 2025) [doi] [abs].
2. Johnson, SL; Hamisi, HZ; Owity, OJ; Ochieng, YA; Goel, P; Bielskis, M; Puffer, ES, The Intersection of Mental Health and Intimate Partner Violence Among Adolescents in Kenya: A Qualitative Study., Violence against women (June, 2025), pp. 10778012251351921 [doi] [abs].
3. Sim, A; Lwin, KZ; Eagling-Peche, S; Melendez-Torres, GJ; Vyas, S; Calderon, F; Jirapramukpitak, T; Lachman, J; Punpuing, S; Gonzalez, A; Soan, M; Oo, NN; Mitjans, IC; Tyrosvoutis, G; Puffer, E, Effectiveness of a universal film intervention in reducing violence against children and increasing positive parenting among migrant and displaced caregivers from Myanmar: a community-based cluster randomised trial., The Lancet regional health. Southeast Asia, vol. 33 (February, 2025), pp. 100526 [doi] [abs].
4. Bond, L; Placencio-Castro, M; Byansi, W; Puffer, E; Betancourt, TS, Factors Associated with Nonspecialist Quality of Delivery within a Family Strengthening Intervention in Rwanda: a Parallel Latent Growth Model., Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research, vol. 26 no. 1 (January, 2025), pp. 107-121 [doi] [abs].
5. Bond, L; Cheonga, F; Byansi, W; Puffer, E; Betancourt, TS, Exploring Nonspecialist Preparedness to Deliver an Evidence-Based, Family Strengthening Intervention in Rwanda: A Qualitative Study., The journal of behavioral health services & research, vol. 52 no. 1 (January, 2025), pp. 139-154 [doi] [abs].