Judith K. Bass

Judith K. Bass is an associate professor in the Department of Mental Health with a joint appointment at the Center for Refugee and Disaster Response at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She received her PhD in psychiatric epidemiology from Johns Hopkins, and Masters in Public Health and Masters in International Affairs from Columbia University. Bass has done work in designing and evaluating methods for assessing mental health and mental illness in various cultures with the intention of using these assessments to investigate effectiveness of innovative prevention and intervention strategies. Her current work includes working with an international NGO to evaluate programs for children in crisis and evaluating mental health interventions for populations affected by torture and trauma.