Tina Malti

Tina Malti is a Canadian-German child psychologist of Palestinian descent. She currently holds an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship for Early Child Development and Health as the first child psychologist and female psychologist in the award's history. She directs the [https://www.humankind.uni-leipzig.de/ Humboldt Science Center for Child Development (HumanKind)] at Leipzig University. She is also a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto and founding director of the [https://www.utm.utoronto.ca/ccdmp Centre for Child Development, Mental Health, and Policy] at the University of Toronto.

Tina is the current president of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development (ISSBD).

She is known for her research on social-emotional development and mental health in children experiencing varying levels of adversity. Based on this work and a humanistic approach to child development, Dr. Malti creates and tests interventions that help children reach their full potential, overcome the negative effects of trauma, adversity, and violence, and cultivates kindness and ethical strengths.

Over the past two decades, Dr. Malti has directed multidisciplinary research, training, and policy efforts on positive child development, kindness, and mental health in children from all walks of life. She works closely with local and international communities and agencies to provide and act on evidence to improve the development of all children and reduce exposure to trauma and violence across diverse contexts. Provided by Wikipedia