Dr. Tamora Callands
Training and Evaluation Coordinator
Dr. Callands is a trained clinical-community psychologist and Assistant Professor of Health Promotion and Behavior of the College of Public Health at the University of Georgia. She earned her degree and received her training from the Psychological Science Department at Purdue University and through a T32 postdoctoral fellow in the Division of Prevention and Community Research within the Department of Psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine. She brings a wealth of on the ground experience in Sierra Leone, Ghana, and Liberia through research and intervention implementation strategies, research and clinical training techniques, and evaluation methods. Over the past eight years, Dr. Callands has focused her attention on understanding facilitators and barriers to ameliorating mental and sexual health disparities among youth and emerging adults exposed to poverty and violence in low-resource settings both domestically and internationally. She has managed, trained, and supervised local research teams and mental health clinicians in Sierra Leone and Liberia on mental health and sexual risk behavior among war-exposed and at-risk youth. Currently, she is the capacity building co-lead for an NIMH U19 award for research partnership for scaling up mental health interventions in low- and middle-income countries.
