Sarah McIvor Murray is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mental Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHSPH). Her interest in health in the context of violence emerged when working for the International Rescue Committee in refugee resettlement, and then later with Global Health Access Program/Community Partners International on the Thai-Myanmar border. She received her MSPH in the Social and Behavioral Interventions track of the JHSPH International Health department, and her PhD from JHSPH’s Department of Mental Health with a focus in psychiatric epidemiology. She is also a former NIMH-T32 global mental health postdoctoral research fellow.