Amanda Sim
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences

Dr Sim's program of research focuses on risk and resilience processes influencing the mental health and well-being of children and families experiencing adversity, particularly war and forced displacement. She has extensive experience conducting community-engaged mixed methods research to develop and test interventions to prevent family violence and promote positive parenting and mental health among refugee and other marginalized populations around the world. Dr Sim is a core member of the Global Parenting Initiative, a consortium of academic institutions, policy makers, and implementing organizations that works towards scaling up parenting interventions in low- and middle-income countries. She holds a DPhil (PhD) in Social Intervention from the University of Oxford and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at The Offord Centre for Child Studies at McMaster University. She previously worked at the International Rescue Committee implementing and evaluating violence prevention and mental health interventions in Afghanistan, Liberia, Ethiopia, Thailand, and Lebanon.
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