Alejandra Paniagua-Avila on implementing mental health interventions in Indigenous communities

The Lancet Global Health in conversation with

The Lancet Global Health in conversation with
Alejandra Paniagua-Avila on implementing mental health interventions in Indigenous communities
Jan 07, 2026
The Lancet Group

How can clinicians work with communities to implement appropriate interventions? What does effective context-driven, co-created research that respects local knowledge look like? And how can we use qualitative methods to build interventions from the ground up?

Dr. Alejandra Paniagua-Avila joins Gavin Cleaver, senior editor at The Lancet Global Health, to discuss her work on advancing equity in implementation research with Indigenous populations in Guatemala, published in this month's issue.

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