
Karestan Koenen
Director, Biology of Trauma Initiative at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard · Harvard School of Public Health
Credentials: · · ·
History
PresentBiology of Trauma Initiative at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard Center · Harvard School of Public Health
- Present

Chan School of Public Health
Research
Biological studies of post-traumatic stress disorder
Review · Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2012 · 1,124 citations
Trauma and PTSD in the WHO World Mental Health Surveys
European journal of psychotraumatology · 2017 · 1,012 citations
Posttraumatic stress disorder in the World Mental Health Surveys
Psychological Medicine · 2017 · First of 35 authors · 971 citations

96 papers
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Grants
- 1983–2031
Training Program in Psychiatric Genetics and Translational Research
National Institute of Mental Health · T32
Contact PI · $4.2M · Harvard University d/b/a Harvard School of Public Health
- 2016–2029
Psychiatric Genomics Consortium for PTSD
National Institute of Mental Health · R01
PI · $8.4M · University of California, San Diego
- 2023–2028
Genetics of PTSD in African Ancestry Populations
National Institute of Mental Health · R01
Contact PI · $7.2M · Broad Institute, Inc.
- 2020–2026
2/4 Powering Genetic Discovery for Severe Mental Illness in Latin American and African Ancestries
National Institute of Mental Health · U01
Contact PI · $3.1M · Harvard University d/b/a Harvard School of Public Health
Clinical trials
- 2020
Health and Wellbeing of Pregnant and Post-Partum Women During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Principal investigator · Completed
Pregistry

