Neil Boothby is the Allan Rosenfield Professor of Forced Migration and Health at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health (www.forcedmigration.columbia.edu/faculty/boothby.html). His research focuses on the effects of armed conflict

War

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 and violence on children.

Career

In the late 1980s Boothby was a psychologist at Duke University, and he worked for Save the Children

Save the Children

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 at the Lhanguene children's center helping children that had been traumatized by exposure to armed conflict in Mozambique. He also served as an advisor to the Mozambican Ministry of Health in the attempt to develop national programs to address this problem.

Boothby is currently the director of the Program on Forced Migration at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University.

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
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  , 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.