Jyoti Mishra

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 Mental Health Initiative (UC CMHI).

Dr. Mishra has expertise in the study of climate trauma and climate resilience as well as scalable digital mental health interventions and 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 other sources. Her research is widely acknowledged in the media including recent features in CNN, TIME magazine, NPR, Washington Post, World Economic forum, and the Scientific American.

Jyoti has authored a children’s book on the secrets of joyous, lifelong learning called The Little Brain. Her teenage son is also a budding author and a climate activist, and has released a comic book for kids about climate change awareness and solutions, called Listen Up Kids! Our Climate is Changing.

Jyoti believes that tough challenges for humanity such as climate change provide the opportunity for inter-generational activism and belief in a common positive vision for the future in harmony with nature, which can in turn stimulate inter-generational resilience.