Framily and Mental Health Lab

Welcome! The Framily and Mental Health Lab is led by Dr. Ranak Trivedi. "Framily" include family members and friends who are like family. Our lab focuses on disease management by patients and the framily who care for them. More specifically, the lab aims to identify barriers and facilitators of chronic illness self-management, understand dyadic relationships between patients and caregivers in managing chronic illnesses, developing framily centered self-management programs, and create culturally attuned approaches to disease management.

Ongoing Projects

Learn more: https://websucceedstudy.stanford.edu/

We have developed a program aimed to improve self-management practices amongst South Asian breast cancer survivors and their family and friends. Join our study to help test our program and provide insights to improve it.

Learn more: https://safadstudy.stanford.edu/

This grant will build on our work that South Asian breast cancer survivors and family caregivers experience culturally entrenched stigma and taboos by allowing us to build community partnerships locally, as well as in India.

Learn more: https://safadstudy.stanford.edu/

A 4-site CoE consists of a multi-disciplinary across 4 VA sites, their university affiliates, and VA facilities and partnering communities.

Learn more: https://www.hsrd.research.va.gov/centers/dole/

In the News

Dr. Trivedi and Community Advisory Board member Ms. Sonoo Thadaney-Israni conducted a workshop for breast cancer caregivers and survivors in Pune, India in collaboration with the Nag Foundation on February 4, World Cancer Day. This was featured in the local newspapers!

Learn more: https://safadstudy.stanford.edu/safad-nag-foundation-india

Check out what Dr. Trivedi had to say in the article, Wrestling with my husband's fear of getting COVID again.

Some women in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford Medicine were asked to share their stories - what advice they would give someone starting in the field, what well-being strategies they use, and what inspires them.

Read what Dr. Trivedi had to say.

Check out an article written in the Stanford Medicine Magazine that features Dr. Ranak Trivedi and the SAFAD Study.

Congratulations

Congratulations to Dr. Joe Wielgosz on being awarded the THRIVE Grant Award!

Congratulations to Nitin Seshadri on his completion of the Stanford Leadership in Health Disparities Program!

Congratulations, Dr. Trivedi and team for receiving a grant from the National Cancer Institute to co-design a culturally attuned behavioral intervention for South Asian breast cancer survivors and family caregivers! This 2-year grant will continue to fuel our pioneering work in improving well-being and outcomes in this vastly understudied populations.

Congratulations to Sara Kaushik on her acceptance to the College of Medicine at the Central Michigan University! Sara has been a member of the lab for nearly 3 years, and has served as Project Coordinator for the SAFAD study. We will miss her dearly, but are excited for her as she begins this next phase of her career!

Congratulations, Dr. Trivedi and team for receiving a Stanford Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Innovator Award! This grant will build on our work that South Asian breast cancer survivors and family caregivers experience culturally entrenched stigma and taboos that can worsen their stress, lead to social isolation and loneliness, and interfere with obtaining timely care. We will partner with community leaders locally, in India, South Asian survivors, and South Asian family caregivers in this research.

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