Jura Augustinavicius
Jura Augustinavicius is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Equity, Ethics, and Policy at the School of Population and Global Health at 看片视频 She is also an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Mental Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. At 看片视频 University she is a member of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Mental Health and an Associate Director of the Centre on Climate Change and Health. She regularly provides technical support to governments, NGOs, and UN agencies on mental health and psychosocial support in humanitarian crises and in the context of climate change. Prof. Augustinavicius鈥� research has a strong program implementation and evaluation focus. She currently leads several research projects that bring together teams with interdisciplinary and intersectoral expertise to co-design interventions with communities most heavily impacted by climate change and other crises.
My research focuses on mental health and well-being assessment, intervention, and evaluation in the context of climate change.聽I work with academic institutions, governments, and non-governmental and international organizations to strengthen research-practice-policy collaborations on climate change and mental health as well as mental health and psychosocial support delivery and evaluation globally.