Neil Boothby
Professor of Clinical Population and Family Health
Director of the Program on Forced Migration and Health
E-mail: nb2101@columbia.edu
Neil Boothby, EdD, is an internationally recognized expert and advocate for children affected by war and displacement. As a senior representative of UNICEF, UNHCR and Save the Children, he has worked for more than 20 years with children in crises in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe. As director of the Program on Forced Migration and Health and Professor of Clinical Population and Family Health at the Mailman School, his research focuses on the psychosocial consequences of organized violence on children. He is also the recipient of several awards for his fieldwork, including the Red Cross Humanitarian of the Year Award, for his work with child soldiers, the Mickey Leyland Award, for his work on behalf of uprooted people, the United Nation's Golden Achievement Award, for excellence in social sector activities, and Duke University's Humanitarian Service Award.
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.
Ressler EM, Boothby N, Steinbock D. Unaccompanied Children in Emergencies: Care and Protection in Wars, Natural Disasters and Mass Population Movements. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
