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Jutta Lindert, Professor of Public Health

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Jutta Lindert is full professor of Public Health at the University of Emden, Emden, Germany and resident scholar at the WRSC, Brandeis University, USA. Her main research interests are Global Public Mental Health, especially war and genocide and mental health and psychopathology, violence and mental health, traumatic life events and mental health, and lifecourse epidemiology. Recently, she is working on resilience and well-being in marginalized groups. Additionally, she is president of the Section on “Public Mental Health” of the “European Association of Mental Health” (EUPHA). Currently, she is involved in several multicentre research-projects investigating mental health and resilience. Before being appointed as Professor of Public Health she worked at different universities in the United Kingdom (Queen Mary & The Barts in London) and in Germany (e.g. Protestant University of Ludwigsburg, University of Bielefeld, University of Mainz).