Publications
Selected publications across my three research themes. For a full list, see my Google Scholar or ORCID profiles.
1. Social and Economic Consequences Across the Life Course
Ziebold C, McDaid D, King D, Romeo R, Ribeiro WS, Pan PM, Miguel EC, Bressan RA, Rohde LA, Salum GA, Evans-Lacko S. Estimating the economic impacts for caregivers of young people with mental health problems in a Brazilian cohort. Value in Health. 2025;28(3):336–347. DOI · PubMed
Evans-Lacko S, Font Gilabert P, Knapp M. The double disadvantage faced by adolescents from low socioeconomic backgrounds with mental health problems affects earnings up to mid-life. Social Science & Medicine. 2024;362:117385. DOI
Marchi M, Alkema A, Xia C, Thio C, Chen LY, Schalkwijk W, Galeazzi G, Ferrari S, Pingani L, Kweon H, Evans-Lacko S, Hill W, Boks M. Investigating the impact of poverty on mental illness in the UK Biobank using Mendelian Randomization. Nature Human Behaviour. 2024;8(9):1771–1783. DOI · PMC
Steare T, Evans-Lacko S, Araya M, Cueto S, Dang HH, Ellanki R, Garman E, Lewis G, Rose-Clarke K, Patalay P. Economic inequalities in adolescents' internalising symptoms: longitudinal evidence from eight countries. Lancet Psychiatry. 2024;11(11):890–898. DOI · PubMed
King D, Gronholm PC, Knapp M, Hoffmann MS, Bonin EM, Brimblecombe N, Kadel R, Maughan B, O'Shea N, Richards M, Hoomans T, Evans-Lacko S. Effects of mental health status during adolescence on primary care costs in adulthood across three British cohorts. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. 2024;59(6):917–928. DOI · PMC
Zhang K, Tawell A, Evans-Lacko S. The costs of school exclusion: a case study analysis of England, Wales, and Scotland. Oxford Review of Education. 2024;50(6):777–797. DOI · LSE eprint
Ziebold C, Evans-Lacko S, Andrade M, Hoffmann M, Fonseca L, Barbosa M, Pan PM, Miguel EC, Bressan RA, Rohde LA, Salum GA, Mari JJ, Gadelha A. Childhood poverty and mental health disorders in early adulthood: evidence from a Brazilian cohort study. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. 2023;32(5):903–914. DOI · PubMed
Diaz Y, Hessel P, Avendano M, Evans-Lacko S. Multidimensional poverty and adolescent mental health: unpacking the relationship. Social Science & Medicine. 2022;311:115324. DOI · PubMed
Hoffmann MS, Evans-Lacko S, Collishaw S, Knapp M, Pickles A, Shearer C, Maughan B. Parent- and teacher-reported associations from adolescent bifactor models of psychopathology: an outcome-wide association study of 26 outcomes in mid-life. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 2023;64(3):397–407. DOI · PubMed
Gronholm PC, Knapp M, Brimblecombe N, Maughan B, Richards M, Bonin E, Hoffmann MS, Kadel R, King D, Hoomans T, O'Shea N, Evans-Lacko S. Health service costs in adulthood associated with adolescent mental health problems in three British cohorts. The Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics. 2022;25:39–52. Full text (PDF)
Ziebold C, Silva-Ribeiro W, King D, McDaid D, Hoffmann MS, Romeo R, Pan PM, Miguel EC, Bressan RA, Rohde LA, Salum GA, Mari JJ, Evans-Lacko S. Utilisation and costs of mental health-related service use among adolescents. PLoS One. 2022;17(9):e0273628. DOI · PMC
Hoffmann MS, McDaid D, Salum GA, Silva-Ribeiro W, Ziebold C, King D, Gadelha A, Miguel EC, Mari JJ, Rohde LA, Pan PM, Bressan RA, Mojtabai R, Evans-Lacko S. The impact of child psychiatric conditions on future educational outcomes among a community cohort in Brazil. Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences. 2021;30:e69. DOI · PMC
Evans-Lacko S, Aguilar-Gaxiola S, Al-Hamzawi A, et al. Socio-economic variations in the mental health treatment gap for people with anxiety, mood, and substance use disorders: results from the WHO World Mental Health (WMH) Surveys. Psychological Medicine. 2018;48(9):1560–1571. DOI · PMC
Silva Ribeiro W, Bauer A, Andrade M, York-Smith M, Pan PM, Pingani L, Knapp M, Coutinho E, Evans-Lacko S. Income inequality in mental illness-related morbidity, resilience and use of mental health services: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Lancet Psychiatry. 2017;4(7):554–562. DOI
Evans-Lacko S, Knapp M, McCrone P, Thornicroft G, Mojtabai R. The mental health consequences of the recession: economic hardship and employment of people with mental health problems in 27 European countries. PLoS ONE. 2013;8(7):e69792. DOI · PMC
Theme 2: Developing and Evaluating Interventions
Tanski M, Wei D, Singh S, Avendano Pabon M, Kisansingh Bahure V, Jordans MJD, Lund C, Roy S, Singh R, Thapa A, Tol WA, Evans-Lacko S. Poverty-reduction interventions combined with psychological interventions: a systematic literature review. Scientific Reports. 2025;15:38829. DOI · PMC
Paula CS, Ziebold C, Bordin IA, Matijasevich A, Evans-Lacko S. Can cash transfers protect mental health? Evidence from an observational cohort of children and adolescents living in adverse contexts in Brazil. European Psychiatry. 2025 (online ahead of print). DOI
Maruyama JM, Paula CS, Ziebold C, Tovo-Rodrigues L, Santos IS, Barros AJD, Murray J, Evans-Lacko S, Matijasevich A. Brazilian conditional cash transfer programme's impact on youth human capital outcomes: the 2004 Pelotas Birth Cohort. BMJ Public Health. 2025;3(2):e003192. DOI
Dedios Sanguineti MC, Yepes Fiallo V, Ortiz Sochandamandou SB, Romero Bejarano N, Lund C, Jordans MJD, Evans-Lacko S. "I take a deep breath first": adolescent self-regulation and co-regulation in contexts of urban poverty in Bogotá, Colombia. Journal of Research on Adolescence. 2025;35:e70067.
Malvasi P, Evans-Lacko S, Cyhlarova E, Matijasevich A, McDaid D, Paula CS. Perceptions of Brazil's Bolsa Família cash transfer programme, life opportunities and mental health in the lives of young adults from the outskirts of São Paulo: qualitative study. BJPsych Open. 2025;11(4):e135. DOI· PMC
Malvasi P, Avendano M, Garman E, Lund C, Hessel P, Evans-Lacko S. Adolescents' exposure to and engagement with the Bolsa Família conditional cash transfer programme in Brazil: a qualitative study. BJPsych Open. 2025;11(2):e93. DOI
Zimmerman A, Avendano M, Lund C, Araya R, Diaz Y, Sanchez Ariza J, Hessel P, Garman E, Evans-Lacko S. The long-term effects of cash transfer programmes on young adults' mental health: a quasi-experimental study of Colombia, Mexico and South Africa. Health Policy and Planning. 2025;40(2):206–217. DOI
Malik AM, Peppl R, Sajun SZZ, Qureshi O, Priya K, Sarwar H, Ramachandran P, Venkatraman L, Evans-Lacko S, Bird VJ. Helping people with psychosis with a low-cost intervention DIALOG+: protocol for the economic evaluation in a randomised control trial in India and Pakistan. BMJ Open. 2025;15(1):e080737. DOI · PMC
Magalhães J, Ziebold C, Evans-Lacko S, Matijasevich A, Paula CS. Health, economic and social impacts of the Brazilian cash transfer program on the lives of its beneficiaries: a scoping review. BMC Public Health. 2024;24(1):2818. DOI · PMC
Rose-Clarke K, Bitta M, Evans-Lacko S, et al. Centring youth mental health discourse on low-income and middle-income countries. Lancet Psychiatry. 2024;11(9):671–672. DOI · PubMed
Lund C, Jordans MJD, Garman E, Araya R, Avendano M, Bauer A, Evans-Lacko S, et al. Strengthening self-regulation and reducing poverty to prevent adolescent depression and anxiety: rationale, approach and methods of the ALIVE interdisciplinary research collaboration in Colombia, Nepal and South Africa. Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences. 2023;32:e69. DOI
Evans-Lacko S, Araya R, Bauer A, Garman E, Alvarez-Iglesias A, McDaid D, Hessel P, Matijasevich A, Paula C, Park A, Lund C. Potential mechanisms by which cash transfer programmes could improve the mental health and life chances of young people: a conceptual framework and lines of enquiry for research and policy. Global Mental Health. 2023;10:e13. DOI · PMC
Carpena MX, Paula CS, Loret de Mola C, Hessel P, Avendano M, Evans-Lacko S, Matijasevich A. Combining cash transfers and cognitive behavioral therapy to reduce antisocial behavior in young men: a mediation analysis of a randomized controlled trial in Liberia. PLoS One. 2023;18(3):e0273891. DOI · PMC
Bird VJ, Sajun SZ, Peppl R, Evans-Lacko S, et al. Assessing the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a solution-focused resource-orientated approach (DIALOG+) to improving the quality of life for people with psychosis in India and Pakistan — a cluster RCT. Trials. 2023;24(1):59.
Garman EC, Eyal K, Avendano M, Evans-Lacko S, Lund C. Cash transfers and the mental health of young people: evidence from South Africa's Child Support Grant. Social Science & Medicine. 2022;292:114631. DOI · PubMed
Evans-Lacko S, Hahn S, Lina-Jolien P, Schomerus G. The impact of digital interventions on help-seeking behaviour for mental health problems: a systematic literature review. Current Opinion in Psychiatry. 2022;35(3):207–218.
Stevens M, Cartagena Farias J, Mindel C, D'Amico F, Evans-Lacko S. Pilot evaluation to assess the effectiveness of youth peer community support via the Kooth online mental wellbeing website. BMC Public Health. 2022;22(1):1903. DOI · PMC
Bauer A, Garman E, McDaid D, Avendano M, Araya R, Diaz Y, Hessel P, Lund C, Malvasi P, Matijasevich A, Park A, Paula C, Ziebold C, Zimmerman A, Evans-Lacko S. Integrating youth mental health into cash transfer programmes in response to the COVID-19 crisis in low- and middle-income countries. Lancet Psychiatry. 2021;8(4):340–346. DOI · PMC
Bauer A, Araya R, Avendano M, Diaz Y, Garman E, Hessel P, Lund C, Malvasi P, Matijasevich A, McDaid D, Park A, Paula C, Zimmerman A, Evans-Lacko S. Examining the dynamics between young people's mental health, poverty and life chances in six low- and middle-income countries: protocol for the CHANCES-6 study. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. 2021;56(9):1687–1703. DOI · PMC
Zimmerman A, Garman E, Avendano M, Araya R, Evans-Lacko S, McDaid D, Park A, Hessel P, Diaz Y, Matijasevich A, Ziebold C, Bauer A, Paula CS, Lund C. The impact of cash transfers on mental health in children and young people in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMJ Global Health. 2021;6:e004661. DOI · PMC
Theme 3: Stigma Reduction and Translation to Policy
Bhatt J, Evans-Lacko S, Scior K, Saunders R. An international validation of the Stigma Impact Scale with people with dementia. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. 2025;40(7):e70123. DOI
Barbui C, Alonso J, Chisholm D, Evans-Lacko S, Keynejad RC, Lazeri L, Miah N, Valuckiene Z, Gastaldon C. Mental health service coverage and gaps among adults in Europe: a systematic review. The Lancet Regional Health – Europe. 2025;57:101458. DOI
Majeed T, Hopkin G, Wang K, Nepal S, Votruba N, Gronholm P, Gurung D, Semrau M, Bagade T, Breuer E, Lund C, Thornicroft G, Evans-Lacko S. Anti-stigma interventions in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review. eClinicalMedicine. 2024;72:102612. DOI · PMC
Musyimi CW, Muyela LA, Ndetei DM, Evans-Lacko S, Farina N. Acceptability and feasibility of a community dementia stigma reduction program in Kenya. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease. 2024;100(2):699–711.
Bhatt J, Brohan E, Blasco D, Oliveira D, Bakolis I, Comas-Herrera A, Farina N, Knapp M, Stevens M, Thornicroft G, Wilson E, Salcher-Konrad M, Yang LH, Evans-Lacko S. The development and validation of the discrimination and stigma scale ultra short for people living with dementia (DISCUS-Dementia). BJPsych Open. 2023;9(5):e164. DOI · PMC
Gronholm PC, Bakolis I, Cherian AV, Davies K, Evans-Lacko S, et al. Toward a multi-level strategy to reduce stigma in global mental health: overview protocol of the Indigo Partnership to develop and test interventions in low- and middle-income countries. International Journal of Mental Health Systems. 2023;17:2.
Ribeiro WS, Romeo R, King D, Owens S, Gronholm PC, Fisher HL, Laurens KR, Evans-Lacko S. Influence of stigma, sociodemographic and clinical characteristics on mental health-related service use and associated costs among young people in the United Kingdom. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. 2023;32(8):1363–1373. DOI · PMC
Brohan E, Thornicroft G, Rüsch N, Lasalvia A, Campbell MM, Yalçınkaya-Alkar Ö, Lanfredi M, Ochoa S, Üçok A, Tomás C, Fadipe B, Sebes J, Fiorillo A, Sampogna G, Paula CS, Valverde L, Schomerus G, Klemm P, Ouali U, Castelein S, Alexová A, Oexle N, Guimarães PN, Sportel BE, Chang CC, Li J, Shanthi C, Reneses B, Bakolis I, Evans-Lacko S. Measuring discrimination experienced by people with a mental illness: replication of the short-form DISCUS in six world regions. Psychological Medicine. 2023;53(9):3963–3973. DOI · PMC
Hurzuk S, Farina N, Pattabiraman M, Ramasamy N, Alladi S, Rajagopalan J, Comas-Herrera A, Thomas P, Evans-Lacko S. Understanding, experiences and attitudes of dementia in India: a qualitative study. Dementia. 2022.
Jacobs R, Schneider M, Farina N, Du Toit P, Evans-Lacko S. Stigma and its implications for dementia in South Africa: a multi-stakeholder exploratory study. Ageing & Society. 2024;44(4):867–897. DOI
Oliveira D, Godoy C, da Mata FAF, Mateus E, Franzon ACA, Farina N, Evans-Lacko S, Ferri CP. Reducing dementia-related stigma and discrimination among community health workers in Brazil: protocol for a randomised controlled feasibility trial. BMJ Open. 2022;12(7):e060033. DOI · PMC
Oliveira D, Mata F, Mateus E, Musyimi C, Farina N, Ferri CP, Evans-Lacko S. Experiences of stigma and discrimination among people living with dementia and family carers in Brazil: qualitative study. Ageing & Society. 2021:1–22.
Musyimi CW, Ndetei DM, Evans-Lacko S, Oliveira D, Mutunga E, Farina N. Perceptions and experiences of dementia and its care in rural Kenya. Dementia (London). 2021.
Bakolis I, Thornicroft G, Vitoratou S, Rüsch N, Bonetto C, Lasalvia A, Evans-Lacko S. Development and validation of the DISCUS scale: a reliable short measure for assessing experienced discrimination in people with mental health problems on a global level. Schizophrenia Research. 2019;212:213–220. DOI
Thornicroft G, Mehta N, Clement S, Evans-Lacko S, et al. Evidence for effective interventions to reduce mental health-related stigma and discrimination. The Lancet. 2016.
Evans-Lacko S, Corker E, Williams P, Henderson C, Thornicroft G. Effect of the Time to Change anti-stigma campaign on trends in mental-illness-related public stigma among the English population in 2003–13: an analysis of survey data. Lancet Psychiatry. 2014;1(2):121–128. DOI · PubMed
Evans-Lacko S, Clement S, Corker E, Brohan E, Dockery L, Farrelly S, Hamilton S, Pinfold V, Rose D, Henderson C, Thornicroft G, McCrone P. How much does mental health discrimination cost: valuing experienced discrimination in relation to healthcare care costs and community participation. Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences. 2015;24(5):423–434. DOI · PMC