B. Heidi Ellis is Director of the Refugee Trauma and Resilience Center at Boston Children’s Hospital and an Associate Professor of psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School. She studies refugee youth mental health, with a particular emphasis on understanding trauma exposure, violence, and how the social context impacts developmental trajectories.
For more than a decade Dr. Ellis has built a community-based participatory research program with Somali refugees. Through this research program she has investigated the role of discrimination in refugee youth mental health, and developed and evaluated a school-based mental health intervention for Somali refugee youth.
Dr. Ellis received her B.A. from Yale University, her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Oregon, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Boston University School of Medicine.
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B. Heidi Ellis, Boston Children's Hospital (1:44)
Articles:
Trauma History and Psychopathology in War-Affected Refugee Children Referred for Trauma-Related Mental Health Services in the United States
Heidi Ellis et al.