Corina Benjet

Dr. Corina Benjet has a Ph.D. in psychology from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México). She is currently a researcher at the National Institute of Psychiatry (Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatría) in Mexico City in the Center for Global Mental Health Research, Department of Epidemiological and Psychosocial Research. She is also a professor and thesis advisor in the graduate programs of the School of Psychology and the Medical School of the National University of Mexico. Her research interests include adolescent mental health and psychiatric epidemiology. She is a collaborator of the World Mental Health Surveys Initiative. As such she collaborated on the Mexican National Comobidity Survey and was the principal investigator of the first and currently only representative psychiatric epidemiological survey of the general adolescent population in Mexico. More recently she conducted the WMH-International College Student surveys in Mexico and a large clinical trial of digital mental health interventions for depression and anxiety in university students throughout Mexico and Colombia. Dr. Benjet has received various awards and recognitions for her work including the “Miguel Alemán Valdés” National Award for Outstanding Early Career Achievement in Health Sciences in 2010, the best scientific article in the area of public health in the year 2009 by the Mexican National Institutes of Health for her article “Youth mental health in a populous city of the developing world: Results from the Mexican Adolescent Mental Health Survey” published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, and the 2011 Scopus Award for researcher in Mexico most widely cited in her field.