Prof. Stefan JANSEN

Director of Research & Innovation, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Rwanda

Stefan Jansen, PhD. is Associate Professor in Neuroscience and works at the University of Rwanda since September 2011. He is the Director of Research and Innovation at the College of Medicine and Health Sciences and heads the Mental Health & Behaviour Research Group. He runs multiple internationally funded and multi-country research projects on intergenerational trauma, alcohol and drug abuse, community based psychosocial interventions, and more; using a wide range of methodological approaches, including neuro-imaging, genetics/epigenetics, Randomized Controlled Trials, and psychometrics. He is the Chief Editor of the Rwanda Journal of Medicine and Health Sciences, Board Member of the Rwanda National Ethics Committee, Ag. Chair of the UR-CMHS Institutional Review Board, among other responsibilities.