- Adjunct Professor, Global Health
- Professor, Family Medicine
- Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
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Dr. Bennett is a physician scientist focused on maternal child health for vulnerable populations in the US and in low and middle income countries (LMICs) with particular focus on perinatal depression. He has expertise in implementation science and the use of strategies to support implementation of evidence based practices for the enhancement of mental health services in primary care settings. He has ongoing global mental health research projects in Vietnam, Nigeria, and Peru targeting perinatal depression. A significant amount of his research focus has been in the use of technologies to support the use of evidence based care models in these primary care settings and he is a co-investigator in the UW ALACRITY center targeting implementation of evidence based psychosocial interventions through user centered design. He is also the director of the Healthier Washington Resource Portal (waportal.org) a technology platform developed through participatory design strategies to support large scale behavioral health integration. Dr. Bennett is a family physician providing full spectrum primary care including obstetric, family planning, pediatric and general adult health care.
- MD (Thomas Jefferson University)
- PhD (Thomas Jefferson University)
- BA (Pennsylvania State University)
- Spanish
- Maternal Mortality
- Mental Health
-Kola L, Bennett IM, Bhat A, Ayinde OO, Oladeji BD, Abiona D, Abdulmalik J, Faregh N, Collins PY, Gureje O. Stigma and utilization of treatment for adolescent perinatal depression in Ibadan Nigeria. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth [In Press]
- Bennett IM, Schott W, Krutikova S, Behrman J.: Maternal mental health, and child growth and development, in four low-income and middle-income countries. J Epid Comm Health 2015;0:1–6. doi:10.1136/jech-2014-205311
- Gordon M, Henderson R, Holmes JH, Wolters MK, Bennett IM: Participatory design of ehealth solutions for women from vulnerable populations with perinatal depression. J Am Med Inform Assoc 2015;0:1–5. doi:10.1093/jamia/ocv109
- Mora P, Bennett IM, Elo I, Coyne J, Mathew L, Culhane JF: Distinct Trajectories of Perinatal Depressive Symptomatology: Evidence from Growth Mixture Modeling. American Journal of Epidemiology. Oxford Journals, November 2008 Notes: advanced access 11/10/2008doi: 10.1093/aje/kwn283
- Hantsoo L, Criniti S, Khan A, Moseley M, Kincler N, Faherty LJ, Epperson CN, Bennett IM. Mobile application for monitoring and management of depressed mood in a vulnerable pregnant population. Psychiatric Services. 2017 epub ahead of print DOI:10.1176/appi.ps.201600582