Nadine Seward
Co-investigator (UK)
University of Edinburgh
Nadine Seward is a Chancellor’s Fellow at the Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh. She has a PhD in Epidemiology from University College London and holds an MSC in Epidemiology from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Dr. Seward is interested in designing and evaluating mental health interventions for scale to understand how, for whom, and under what circumstances interventions work or not.
In the COLMA project, Dr. Seward is a co-investigator and leads the development of the community groups component of the intervention.
Recent publications:
- Nakamura CA*, Seward N*, et al. A self-help mobile messaging intervention to improve subthreshold depressive symptoms among older adults in a socioeconomically deprived region of Brazil (PRODIGITAL): a pragmatic, two-arm randomised controlled trial. Lancet Reg Health Am. 2024;39:100897*Authors equally contributed
- Scazufca, M., Nakamura, C.A., Seward, N. et al. Self-help mobile messaging intervention for depression among older adults in resource-limited settings: a randomized controlled trial. Nat Med 30, 1127–1133 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-024-02864-4
- Seward N, Loh WW, et al. (2025) Understanding how digital mental health interventions can be optimised to improve longer term sustainability: Findings from a causal mediation analysis of the CONEMO trials. PLOS Global Public Health 5(7): e0004537. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0004537
ORCID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4821-9437
Nadine Seward is a Chancellor’s Fellow at the Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh. She has a PhD in Epidemiology from University College London and holds an MSC in Epidemiology from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Dr. Seward is interested in designing and evaluating mental health interventions for scale to understand how, for whom, and under what circumstances interventions work or not.
In the COLMA project, Dr. Seward is a co-investigator and leads the development of the community groups component of the intervention.
Recent publications:
- Nakamura CA*, Seward N*, et al. A self-help mobile messaging intervention to improve subthreshold depressive symptoms among older adults in a socioeconomically deprived region of Brazil (PRODIGITAL): a pragmatic, two-arm randomised controlled trial. Lancet Reg Health Am. 2024;39:100897*Authors equally contributed
- Scazufca, M., Nakamura, C.A., Seward, N. et al. Self-help mobile messaging intervention for depression among older adults in resource-limited settings: a randomized controlled trial. Nat Med 30, 1127–1133 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-024-02864-4
- Seward N, Loh WW, et al. (2025) Understanding how digital mental health interventions can be optimised to improve longer term sustainability: Findings from a causal mediation analysis of the CONEMO trials. PLOS Global Public Health 5(7): e0004537. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0004537
ORCID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4821-9437
