Lynne Jones, PhD, OBE, MBChB
Fellow, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Biography
Lynne Jones is a child psychiatrist, relief worker, and writer. She has spent much of the last 18 years establishing and running mental health programs in areas of conflict or natural disaster. Her most recent book, Then They Started Shooting: Growing Up in Wartime Bosnia (Harvard University Press, 2005), explores children’s understanding of political violence. Her field diaries have been published in the London Review of Books and O, The Oprah Magazine, and her audio diaries broadcast on the BBC World Service. Untill 2010 she was the senior mental health advisor for International Medical Corps. In 2011 she was a research fellow at Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies. she is currently a research associate in the Developmental Psychiatry Section at the University of Cambridge, and is a fellow at the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health. she also consults for UNICEF and WHO.
Jones has an MA in human sciences from the University of Oxford. She qualified in medicine before specializing in psychiatry and has a PhD in social psychology and political science. In 2001, she was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for her work in child psychiatry in conflict-affected areas of Central Europe.