Biography

Pamela Collins, MD, MPH, is a Bloomberg Centennial Professor, chair of the Department of Mental Health and director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Global Mental Health. She is a psychiatrist who works at the intersections of global mental health, HIV care, and adolescent urban mental health. Her current projects integrate psychosocial interventions into routine HIV care for adolescents living with HIV and in Kenya and explore urban responses to youth mental health needs in the U.S. Through leadership at the National Institute of Mental Health, she launched research initiatives to expand access to evidence-based mental health interventions in low- and middle-income countries and among populations experiencing disparities in the US. Prior to her current position, while professor of Psychiatry and Global Health at the University of Washington, she oversaw the implementation of HIV and mental health integration activities in Ukraine, sub-Saharan Africa, India, and the Caribbean as executive director of I-TECH. Dr. Collins is a scientific advisor to the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief program, a commissioner for the second Lancet Commission on adolescent health and wellbeing, and is a member of the US National Academy of Medicine. She is a co-director of the Johns Hopkins-Emory University Center for HIV and Mental Health Stigma Elimination Strategies (CHIMES).