Professor and Chair of the Department of Mental Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Dr. Pamela Collins is a professor and chair of the Department of Mental Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Collins previously worked at the University of Washington, where she directed the Consortium for Global Mental Health since 2018 and served as a professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and as a professor in Global Health. She has also served on the faculty at Columbia University in New York and in senior leadership at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) in Bethesda, Maryland.
As a psychiatrist and mixed methods researcher, Collins has studied the intersections of mental health and HIV prevention, care, and treatment, and the associated social stigma in the U.S. and sub-Saharan Africa. She also focuses on the mental health needs of adolescents in diverse urban settings.
Contact: pamela.collins@jhu.edu