Dr. Georgia J. Michlig

28 May 2021

Dr. Georgia J. Michlig

Dr. Georgia J. Michlig is a mixed methodologist with experience in robust community-based participatory approaches to research and service delivery. Her research has largely focused on refugee and humanitarian health, with a particular focus on global mental health and health service use among humanitarian or other vulnerable populations. Her recent work has expanded to include exploring the role of health systems strengthening in impacting population level health, with a particular emphasis on post-injury rehabilitation and survivors of natural disaster. Dr. Michlig is deeply passionate about the promotion of workplace mental health, especially among high-risk worker populations such as healthcare and humanitarian workers and first responders globally. What joins her various projects together is an effort to engage with persons and communities exposed to potentially traumatic events, whether that be non-fatal injury, armed conflict, natural disaster, forced migration, and/or gender-based violence. Her research explores how survivors both individually and collectively cope and recover from these experiences, and how health systems can be responsive to these needs. This work aims to counter the ever-increasing burden of functional impairment, decreased quality of life and disability caused by untreated physical and psychological trauma.