Neil Boothby
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Neil Boothby is an American professor, psychologist and Government Special Advisor and Senior Coordinator to the USAID Administrator on Children in Adversity. He is the Allan Rosenfield Professor of Forced Migration and Health at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.[1] His research focuses on the effects of armed conflict and violence on children. He has received numerous awards for his work on behalf of war-affected children, including the Red Cross International Humanitarian of the Year Award, the Mickey Leland Award, and the United Nation's Golden Achievement Award for Social Services.[1][2]
Career
In the late 1980s Boothby was a psychologist at Duke University,[3] and he worked for Save the Children at the Lhanguene children's center helping children that had been traumatized by exposure to armed conflict in Mozambique.[4] He also served as an advisor to the Mozambican Ministry of Health in the attempt to develop national programs to address this problem.[5]
Boothby is currently the director of the Program on Forced Migration at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University.[6]
Select publications
- Boothby N. "Political Violence and Development: An Ecological Approach to Children in War Zones". Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America, Vol. 17, No. 3, 2008, 497-514.
- Boothby N. "What Happens when Child Soldiers Grow Up?" Intervention, Vol. 3, No.4, 244-259.
- Boothby N, Strang A, Wessells M. (eds): A World Turned Upside Down: Social Ecologies of Children and War. Kumarian Press, 2006.
- Boothby N, Crawford J, Halperin J. "Mozambique Child Soldier Life Outcome Study: Lessons Learned in Rehabilitation and Reintegration Efforts". Global Public Health, February 2006
- Boothby N, Knudsen C. "Children of the Gun". Scientific American, June, 2000, 60-65.
- Boothby N. "Care and Placement of Unaccompanied Children: Mozambique's Effort to Link Grassroots Networks of Volunteers to a National Program". African Journal of Social Development, University of Zimbabwe, July, 1993, 11-22.
- Boothby N. "Displaced Children: Psychological Theory and Practice From the Field". Journal of Refugee Studies, Vol 5, No. 2, 1992, 107-122.
References
- 1 2 http://www.forcedmigration.columbia.edu/faculty/boothby.html
- ↑ Goodman, Walter (1990-03-02). "TV Weekend; A View of the Gory Horrors Of Mozambique's Civil War". New York Times.
- ↑ Goleman, Daniel (1987-02-24). "TERROR'S CHILDREN: MENDING MENTAL WOUNDS". New York Times.
- ↑ Herbert Posted, Wray (2004-12-12). "The Children of War: The former child soldiers of Mozambique's civil war offer insights into morality and human resiliency". U.S. News & World Report.
- ↑ Perlez, Jane (1989-03-01). "Mozambique Seeks to Heal Young Minds". New York Times.
- ↑ Boothby, Neil (2010-10-27). "Don't assume they're orphans". Miami Herald.
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