Student conversation with Dr. Zeina Mneimneh (Child Mind Institute)
Speaker
Dr. Zeina Mneimneh (Vice President of Global Epidemiology and Evidence-Based Interventions, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Global Center for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Child Mind Institute)Date & time
Location
This is an in-person event for current U-M students. Light lunch will be provided. This event will not be recorded or livestreamed.
Join Dr. Zeina Mneimneh for a discussion surrounding her global health career and the importance of research for her current work at the Child Mind Institute.
Prof. William Axinn, Interim Director of the International Policy Center (IPC), will serve as moderator.
About the Speakers
Dr. Zeina Mneimneh is the vice president of Global Epidemiology and Evidence-Based Interventions at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Global Center for Child and Adolescent Mental Health at the Child Mind Institute. She leads the program's strategy and execution, developing culturally relevant mental health assessment tools for children and adolescents, building research infrastructure and sustainable data-collection systems in low-resource settings, and directing the development and execution of psychosocial programs for youth mental health.
An epidemiologist and a survey methodologist with 25 years of international experience, Dr. Mneimneh bridges academic social science, nonprofit, and the tech sector, having led a quantitative research unit at Meta; directed the International Unit at the University of Michigan's Survey Research Center; and served as research scientist in its Survey Methodology Program. Dr. Mneimneh was also the director of the World Mental Health Data Collection Coordinating Center and chair of the Comparative Survey Design and Implementation (CSDI) executive committee. Dr. Mneimneh has published over 75 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters
Prof. William Axinn is the Ronald and Deborah Freedman Director of the International Hub at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research (ISR), Interim Director of the International Policy Center at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, a research professor at ISR, a professor in the Department of Sociology, a faculty affiliate at the Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies, and a professor of public policy (by courtesy) at the Ford School. Axinn also serves as co-director of both the Chitwan Valley Family Study and the World Mental Health Survey Initiative. Axinn is a sociologist and demographer whose research interests include: the relationships among social change, the social organization of families, intergenerational relationships, and reproductive and mental health in the United States and Nepal. He also studies the interrelationships between population and the environment and new techniques for the collection of social science data. More recently in his career, Axinn's interests have evolved to include public policy applications of his research. His teaching centers on the family, the life course, fertility and research methods.
