The IC-ADAPT Consortium was created to advance ongoing research, development and testing of the IC-ADAPT framework and interventions. Integrating two interdisciplinary, evidence-based models, the ecosocial IC-ADAPT model is applicable across the lifecycle and has validity across cultures and contexts.
IC-ADAPT bridges individuals and family groups with structures and systems through a community focus within a public mental health promotion-wellbeing framework.
The IC-ADAPT model is being used as an analytical framework in a study examining destructive social polarisation, zero-sum mindsets, democratic values, social ties, and public mental health, including COVID-related experiences, through a large online survey in a large European city.
The ‘IC-ADAPT-SEL high-level framework’ is an adaptation of the IC-ADAPT model designed for social and emotional learning (SEL) programmatic support within a MHPSS framework in educational settings for refugees, migrants, displaced and other vulnerable learners in challenging contexts (Boyd-MacMillan and DeMarinis, 2020; UNICEF-Cambridge-Microsoft partnership, The Learning Passport, Cambridge University Press and Cambridge Assessment ).
The IC-ADAPT model is being instantiated in a pilot intervention for feasibility testing as part of a multi-disciplinary EU-funded H2020 DRIVE project spanning four countries.
Find out more about DRIVE project here>>
Consortium co-founders
Senior Research Associate
Co-Director, IC research
Department of Psychiatry
Cambridge Public Health
University of Cambridge, UK
Professor Valerie DeMarinis
Senior Professor in Public Mental Health
Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine
Umeå universitet / Umeå University, Sweden
Professor in Public Mental Health Promotion
Innlandet Hospital Trust, Norway
Professor Emeritus, Uppsala University, Sweden
Dr Maria Nordendahl
University Lecturer, general and family medicine
Umeå University, Sweden
Medical doctor practitioner, Region Norrbotten, Sweden
Clinician, Primary Health Centre, a specialist in migrant care, Sweden
Professor Derrick Silove
Senior Visiting Scholar, University of Cambridge, UK
Professor Emeritus, University of South New Wales, Australia
Dr Alvin Kuowei Tay
National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Fellow
University of South New Wales, Australia
Visiting Scholar, Department of Counselling and Clinical Psychology
Teachers College, Columbia, USA
DRIVE Post-Doctorate Researcher
Research Associate
Department of Psychiatry
Cambridge Public Health
University of Cambridge
Graduate students
Patricia Andrews Fearon
PhD Candidate, Gates Cambridge Scholar, Selwyn College
Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge
Luma Bashmi
PhD candidate, King’s College
Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge
Lecturer in Psychology, School of Medicine, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland – Bahrain (RCSI)
Former Head of Scientific Research & Development / Chairperson of the Institutional Review Board, King Hamad University Hospital
Co-Founder, Co-Director eLaa Beirut, Lebanon
Consortium members
Dr Claire Campbell, Ulster University, UK
Prof Roberto Lewis-Fernando, Columbia University, USA
Prof Siobhan O’Neill, Ulster University, UK
Prof Suzan Song, George Washington University, USA
Prof Emeritus Peter Suedfeld, University of British Columbia, Canada
Prof Wietse Toll, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Upcoming Events
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Previous Events
Panelist presentation by Dr Eolene Boyd-MacMillan: Mobilising resources and managing environmental stressors to flourish in a new context: The IC-ADAPT model in action
25 March 2022
Environmental Displacement and Migration: Drivers, Impacts and Solutions
Organised by the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Global Human Movement in association with Cambridge Zero
Uppsala Health Summit: Pathways to Lifelong Mental Wellbeing
Wednesday 20 October 2021
‘Public Mental Health Promotion as an Integral Part of Clinical and Community Care Programmes’
Workshop policy brief summarising presentations and discussions among international participants available here>>
Presenters, policy brief authors: Professor Valerie DeMarinis (Umeå University, Uppsala University, Innlandent Hospital Trust, Norway), Professor Lars Lien (Innlandet Hospital Trust, the Norwegian Psychiatry Association, Sapmi Klinikka, Karasjok, Norway, Arctic University, and University of Tromsø)
Invited Workshop Discussion Group Leaders: Dr Eolene Boyd-MacMillan (University of Cambridge), Dr Maria Nordendahl (Umeå University)
Compendium of policy briefs from all 8 workshops available here>>
IC-ADAPT publications and presentations*
DeMarinis, V., Boyd-MacMillan, E., Nordendahl, M. (2021). Public Mental Health Overview Report. Drive Project Research Report Series 2, The Hague: Leiden University.
Boyd-MacMillan, E. and DeMarinis, V. (3rd February 2021). Presentation: Learning passport – social and emotional learning, climate change, and IC-ADAPT-SEL. UNICEF roundtable on creating curricula for education in emergencies: Reflections on the learning passport and beyond. Chaired by INEE (International Network for Education in Emergencies).
*(does not include publications on IC or ADAPT alone)