Joy Noel Baumgartner
Adjunct Associate Professor of Global Health
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Joy Noel Baumgartner
Adjunct Associate Professor of Global Health
Joy Noel Baumgartner is an associate professor in the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on strengthening the delivery of integrated health and social service interventions addressing mental health, reproductive health, maternal, adolescent & child health, and/or gender-based violence in low-resource settings. She is Director of the Global Mental Health Initiative.
Prior to joining UNC, Dr. Baumgartner was a core research faculty member at DGHI, including serving as Director of the Evidence Lab for four years.
Dr. Baumgartner has a master's degree in Social Work from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, a PhD in Maternal and Child Health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and she completed a an NIMH T32 postdoctoral fellowship in Psychiatric Epidemiology at Columbia University focused on global mental health.
Publications
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Hagey JM, Kirya J, Kaggwa J, Headley J, Egger JR, Baumgartner JN. Timeliness of Delivery Care and Maternal and Neonatal Health Outcomes in Private Facilities in Masaka Area, Uganda: A Quasi-Experimental Study. Matern Child Health J. 2023 Nov;27(11):2048–57.Martinez A, Baumgartner JN, Kaaya S, Swai P, Lawala PS, Thedai B, et al. Hopefulness among individuals living with schizophrenia and their caregivers in Tanzania: an actor-partner interdependence model. BMC psychiatry. 2023 Jul;23(1):508.Yelverton V, Hair NL, Ghosh SH, Mfinanga SG, Ngadaya E, Baumgartner JN, et al. Corrigendum to "Beyond coverage: Rural-urban disparities in the timeliness of childhood vaccinations in Tanzania" [Vaccine 40(37) (2022) 5483-5493]. Vaccine. 2023 Mar;41(14):2425.Kim ET, Zhou Y, Mugenyi L, Lillie M, Bbosa JK, Agaba C, et al. Impact of the Child-optimized Financial Education (COFE) curriculum among savings group participants in Uganda: A cluster randomised controlled trial. Journal of Development Effectiveness. 2023 Jan 1;15(2):183–95.
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