Edith K. Wakida, BIFA, MA, MRA, PhD is the founding Head, Office of Research Administration, and pioneer Research Administrator in the Faculty of Medicine, at Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST) in Uganda. In 2017, she enrolled into a PhD program at MUST with a focus on implementation of the policy on mental health integration into primary healthcare in rural Uganda – this work yielded 5 publications. Her PhD was awarded in April 2021 just in time to apply for the Harvard University Center for African Studies post-doctoral fellowship 2021. For her PhD program, Dr. Wakida developed an intervention to ‘Enhance the Capacity for Providers in Mental Health Integration, ECaP-MHI’, (i.e., summarized Uganda Clinical Guidelines, modified paper-based patient registers to include mental health indicators, and training by psychiatrists). The intervention was pilot tested and evaluated for perceived feasibility and acceptability. Key results showed that it was user-friendly, and more patients were registered for mental healthcare. Despite these successes, engaging psychiatrists as trainers may not be sustainable at scale given their scarcity and heavy workload. During the post-doctoral fellowship, Dr. Wakida will adapt the training component of the ECaP-MHI to an instructional design (pre-record psychiatrists giving the training offered to the PHC providers) and make the learning materials available to the PHC providers under the supervision of the district health teams. The adapted ECaP-MHI will be pilot tested for acceptability, adoption, appropriateness, feasibility of the content, and affective response to the material and their routine activities. Dr. Jessica Haberer is the primary mentor to Dr. Wakida during the post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard Center for African Studies Post-Doctoral Fellowship September 2021-February 2023.