- Scarbrough, H., Sanfilippo, K.R.M., Ziemann, A. and Stavropoulou, C. (2024). Mobilizing pilot-based evidence for the spread and sustainability of innovations in healthcare: The role of innovation intermediaries. Social Science & Medicine, 340, pp. 116394–116394. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.116394.
- Sanfilippo, K.R.M., McConnell, B., Darboe, B., Huma, H.B., Glover, V. and Stewart, L. (2023). The experience of maternal mental distress in The Gambia: A qualitative study identifying idioms of distress, perceptions of contributing factors and the supporting role of existing cultural practices. PLOS Global Public Health, 3(9). doi:10.1371/journal.pgph.0002329.
- Sanfilippo, K.R.M., Glover, V., Cornelius, V., Amiel Castro, R.T., McConnell, B., Darboe, B. … Stewart, L. (2023). Expression of antenatal symptoms of common mental disorders in The Gambia and the UK: a cross-sectional comparison study. BMJ Open, 13. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2022-066807.
- Stewart, L., McConnell, B.B., Darboe, B., Glover, V., Huma, H.B., Sanfilippo, K.R.M. … Cornelius, V. (2022). Social singing, culture and health: interdisciplinary insights from the CHIME project for perinatal mental health in The Gambia. Health Promotion International, 37(Supplement_1). doi:10.1093/heapro/daab210.
- Sanfilippo, K.R. (2021). Book Review: Music therapy in neonatal intensive care: Influences of culture (Shoemark & Ettenberger, Eds.). Approaches: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Music Therapy.
- Sanfilippo, K.R.M., Spiro, N., Molina-Solana, M. and Lamont, A. (2020). Do the shuffle: Exploring reasons for music listening through shuffled play. PLOS ONE, 15(2). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0228457.
- Sanfilippo, K.R.M., McConnell, B., Cornelius, V., Darboe, B., Huma, H.B., Gaye, M. … Stewart, L. (2019). A study protocol for testing the feasibility of a randomised stepped wedge cluster design to investigate a Community Health Intervention through Musical Engagement (CHIME) for perinatal mental health in The Gambia. Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 5(1). doi:10.1186/s40814-019-0515-5.
- Anglada-Tort, M. and Sanfilippo, K.R.M. (2019). Visualizing Music Psychology: A Bibliometric Analysis of Psychology of Music, Music Perception, and Musicae Scientiae from 1973 to 2017. Music & Science, 2, pp. 205920431881178–205920431881178. doi:10.1177/2059204318811786.
- Dingle, G.A., Clift, S., Finn, S., Gilbert, R., Groarke, J.M., Irons, J.Y. … Williams, E.J. (2019). An Agenda for Best Practice Research on Group Singing, Health, and Well-Being. Music & Science, 2, pp. 205920431986171–205920431986171. doi:10.1177/2059204319861719.
- Sanfilippo, K.R.M. and Spiro, N. (2016). Conference report:
“The Third Nordoff Robbins Plus Conference ‘Exploring
music in therapeutic and community settings’”. Approaches: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Music Therapy, 9(1), pp. 159–163.
Contact details
Address
Northampton Square
London EC1V 0HB
United Kingdom
Personal links
About
Overview
Dr Katie Rose Mahon Sanfilippo is a Presidential Research Fellow at SHPS and a member of the Centre for Healthcare Innovation Research. Her overall research interests concern the function and application of music and the arts within healthcare contexts to address health inequalities. Her current research is investigating how community and arts-based approaches and interventions can be scaled-up, spread and sustained more equitably in the UK and globally, with a focus on resource-constrained settings. She also works with various policymakers, charities and health organisations to promote maternal mental health in the educational and health policy agendas in The Gambia and across Africa. She is an affiliated lecturer in Cambridge within the music faculty and also has extensive experience working in the charity sector in the UK.
Qualifications
- PhD in Psychology, Goldsmiths University of London, United Kingdom
- MSc Music Mind and Brain, Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom
- BA Psychology, Loyola Marymount University, United States
- BA Music, Loyola Marymount University, United States
Employment
- Presidential Research Fellow, City, University of London, Sep 2023 – present
- Research Fellow, City, University of London, Oct 2021 – Sep 2023
- ESRC/SeNSS Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Goldsmiths, University of London, Oct 2020 – Oct 2021
- Affiliated Lecturer, University of Cambridge, Oct 2020 – present
Award
- Goldsmiths, University of London (2020) Warden's Annual Public Engagement Awards 2020 in the category of Early Career Researcher
Publications
Featured publications
- Spiro, N., Sanfilippo, K.R.M., McConnell, B.B., Pike-Rowney, G., Bonini Baraldi, F., Brabec, B. … de Wit, K. (2023). Perspectives on Musical Care Throughout the Life Course: Introducing the Musical Care International Network. Music & Science, 6. doi:10.1177/20592043231200553.
- Sanfilippo, K.R.M., Stewart, L. and Glover, V. (2021). How music may support perinatal mental health: an overview. Archives of Women's Mental Health, 24(5), pp. 831–839. doi:10.1007/s00737-021-01178-5.
- Sanfilippo, K.R.M., McConnell, B., Cornelius, V., Darboe, B., Huma, H.B., Gaye, M. … Stewart, L. (2020). Community psychosocial music intervention (CHIME) to reduce antenatal common mental disorder symptoms in The Gambia: a feasibility trial. BMJ Open, 10(11). doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2020-040287.
Publications by category
Book
- Spiro, N., Spiro, R.I.P.S.N. and Sanfilippo, K.R.M. (2022). Collaborative Insights Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Musical Care Throughout the Life Course. Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN 978-0-19-753502-8.
Conference papers and proceedings (2)
- Ziemann, A., Balayah, Z., Stavropoulou, C., Sanfilippo, K.R., Scarbrough, H. and Kearney, M. (2023). Pragmatic and formative evaluation of the pilot implementation of UCLPartners' Proactive Care Frameworks across multiple primary care sites in England.
- (2019). Meeting abstracts from the 5th International Clinical Trials Methodology Conference (ICTMC 2019). doi:10.1186/s13063-019-3688-6
Journal articles (10)
Report
- Ziemann, A., Balayah, Z., Stavropoulou, C., Sanfilippo, K.R. and Scarbrough, H. (2022). Evaluating the pilot implementation of UCLPartners Proactive Care Frameworks. CHIR.
Professional activities
Keynote lecture/speech
- Testing a community-led music intervention to support antenatal mental health in The Gambia. Sheffield, UK (2021). The 16th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition