Joy Noel Baumgartner is a 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.