Pamela Collins

Biography

Pamela Collins is the Bloomberg Centennial Professor and Chair of the Department of Mental Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Through research, education, and practice, the department applies public health approaches to reduce the burden of mental disorders and associated determinants in populations around the world. Prior to this role, she was Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Professor of Global Health at the University of Washington (UW), where she served as executive director of the I-TECH, a global health implementing center in the Department of Global Health that partners with ministries of health to bring public health interventions to scale through a multi-country network spanning 5 continents. Dr. Collins also directed the UW Consortium for Global Mental Health and was associate director of the UW Behavioral Research Center for HIV. She retains an appointment as affiliate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington.

Dr. Collins has served the mental health field in numerous capacities. She was Associate Director for Special Populations and director of the Office for Research on Disparities & Global Mental Health and the Office of Rural Mental Health Research at the National Institute of Mental Health (USA). Her leadership led to the launch of research initiatives to extend mental health services in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East, as well as research to reduce mental health disparities among diverse racial and ethnic groups and Indigenous communities in the United States. She is currently a commissioner for the new Lancet Commission on adolescent health and wellbeing, she chairs the American Psychiatric Association’s Council on International Psychiatry and Global Health, and she co-chairs the advisory board of Connecting Climate Minds, a Wellcome Trust-funded initiative that aligns action at the intersection of climate change and mental health.

Upcoming Courses