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Joy Noel Baumgartner

Associate Professor
Wallace Kuralt Early Career Distinguished Scholar
Director, Global Mental Health Initiative

Joy Noel Baumgartner

Contact

Tate-Turner-Kuralt Building

Room 245-E

325 Pittsboro Street

CB 3550

Chapel Hill, NC 27599

joy.baumgartner@unc.edu

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Joy Noel Baumgartner is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Work with adjunct appointments in the Gillings School of Public Health and the Duke Global Health Institute at Duke University. Dr. Baumgartner has 20+ years of experience conducting socio-behavioral and health services research in low-resource contexts globally. Her area of focus is strengthening the delivery of integrated health and social service interventions that address mental health, HIV prevention, reproductive health, maternal, child & adolescent health, and/or interpersonal violence. As Director of the School of Social Work’s Global Mental Health Initiative, Dr. Baumgartner’s mixed methods research is grounded in the fields of psychiatric epidemiology, implementation science, and integrated service systems to inform, co-create, and evaluate global health interventions. She is PI for the NICHD-funded clinical trial “Adolescent Wellness Visits to Reduce Health Risks in Tanzania” (VITAA study) and the NIMH-funded clinical trial “Family Psychoeducation for Adults with Psychotic Disorders in Tanzania” (KUPAA study). Baumgartner also leads the qualitative and implementation science components of several other research studies focused on child and adolescent health in East Africa and is the Social Work Faculty Liaison for the MSW/MPH Dual Degree program.

Degrees

PhD, UNC-Chapel Hill
MSSW, University of Wisconsin-Madison
BA, University of Virginia

Research Program(s)

Research
MSW Education

Licenses and Certifications

CMSW
CPH

Research and Professional Interests

Global Mental Health
Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health
Implementation Research
Mixed Methods Intervention Research

Co-Investigator

Evaluation of child-optimized financial education for caregivers on child outcomes in rural Uganda
Health-assisted conditional cash transfers to improve timeliness of childhood vaccinations in Mtwara, Tanzania