Joy Noel Baumgartner
Adjunct Associate Professor of Global Health
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Joy Noel Baumgartner
Adjunct Associate Professor of Global Health
Joy Noel Baumgartner is an associate professor in the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she also serves as Director of the Global Mental Health Initiative. Her research focuses on strengthening the delivery of integrated health and social service interventions addressing mental health, reproductive health, maternal, adolescent & child health, and/or interpersonal violence in low-resource settings.
Prior to joining UNC, Dr. Baumgartner was a DGHI faculty member for 6 years (2014-2020), including serving as Director of the Evidence Lab for four years. She continues to collaborate with Duke faculty a range of global mental health research projects.
Dr. Baumgartner has a master's degree in Social Work from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, a PhD in Maternal and Child Health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and she completed a an NIMH T32 postdoctoral fellowship in Psychiatric Epidemiology at Columbia University focused on global mental health.
Publications
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Van Husen MJ, Kaaya S, Swai P, Lawala PS, Thadei B, Minja A, et al. Empowerment among treatment-engaged individuals living with schizophrenia in Tanzania. BMC psychiatry. 2025 Apr;25(1):422.Pack AP, Jeon H, Kaaya S, Sastry J, Minja A, Headley J, et al. Adolescents’ and young women’s perspectives on participation in biomedical clinical trials for HIV prevention in Tanzania and India: a qualitative inquiry. Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies. 2025 Jan 1;Egger JR, Kaaya S, Lawala P, Swai P, Thadei B, Minja A, et al. Mediators of functioning and quality of life among people living with schizophrenia participating in the culturally adapted family psychoeducation (KUPAA) trial in Tanzania. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. 2025 Jan 1;Swai P, Desjardins M, Minja A, Headley J, Lawala P, Ndelwa L, et al. Social support and managing schizophrenia in Tanzania: Perspectives from treatment-engaged individuals and relative caregivers. Ssm Mental Health. 2024 Jun 1;5.
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