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Mohamed Ibrahim

Assistant Professor
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Assistant Professor
Research Focus
Mental Health and BehaviourAddictions and Substance AbuseMental Health
Contact Info
mohamed.ibrahim@ubc.ca
604-822-2100

Biography

Dr. Mohamed Ibrahim is an assistant professor at the University of British Columbia School of Social Work and a Michael Smith Health Research BC Scholar. Dr. Mohamed’s areas of research focus on global mental health, addiction, mental health and psychosocial support and peacebuilding, task-shifting/sharing in lower- and middle-income settings.

Dr. Ibrahim teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in health and addiction. His health leadership and clinical work covers over 20 years in East Africa including working in the Kenya public health care system, refugee and internally displaced settings in Somalia, Kenya and Uganda. He also has extensive clinical experience in the mental health and addiction sector in Canada and United States of America.

Publications

  • Culture, medicine and psychiatry -

    Medical Returnees: Somali Canadians Seeking Psychosocial and Spiritual Care in East Africa.

    Ibrahim M
  • Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities -

    Dhagan Celis (Cultural Rehabilitation): Somali Canadians Transnational Approach to Youth Substance Use.

    Ibrahim M
  • Frontiers in public health -

    Prevalence of mental disorders and psychological trauma among conflict- affected population in Somalia: a cross-sectional study.

    Salad AM, Malik SMMR, Ndithia JM, Noor Z, Madeo M, Ibrahim M
  • Global mental health (Cambridge, England) -

    Investing in mental health in Somalia: harnessing community mental health services through task shifting.

    Ibrahim M, Malik MR, Noor Z
  • International journal of mental health systems -

    Mental health crisis in Somalia: a review and a way forward.

    Ibrahim M, Rizwan H, Afzal M, Malik MR
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