Dr. Jyoti Mishra is an Associate Professor in the department of Psychiatry at the University of California San Diego. She is the founder and director of the NEATLabs and the Co-director of the University of California’s Climate Resilience Initiative. She also serves as a member of The Mind Body Ecology Institute Circle of Advisors. Jyoti has expertise in community-partnered studies of climate trauma and resilience as well as scalable digital mental health interventions and AI/ML enabled precision psychiatry. Her research has been funded by grants from the National Institutes of Health, Hope for Depression Foundation, Sanford Institute for Empathy and Compassion, and the Mind & Life Institute among others. Her climate-related research is widely acknowledged in the media including features in the BBC, CNN, TIME magazine, NPR, Washington Post, World Economic forum, and Scientific American, and is also cited by the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Jyoti believes that tough challenges for humanity such as climate change provide the opportunity for inter-generational activism towards a common positive vision for the future in harmony with nature, which can in turn stimulate inter-generational resilience.
