Neil Boothby

Neil Boothby is the Allan Rosenfield Professor of Forced Migration and Health at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health (www.forcedmigration.columbia.edu/faculty/boothby.html). His research focuses on the effects of armed conflict and violence on children.^[1]

Career

In the late 1980s Boothby was a psychologist at Duke University,^[2] 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.^[3] He also served as an advisor to the Mozambican Ministry of Health in the attempt to develop national programs to address this problem.^[4]

Boothby is currently the director of the Program on Forced Migration at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University.^[5]

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.

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