Lynne Jones
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Lynne Jones

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Lynne Jones is a child psychiatrist, relief worker, and writer. She has spent much of the last 25 years establishing and running mental health programs in areas of conflict or natural disaster including the Balkans, East and West Africa, South East Asia, the Middle East, Haiti and Central America. Most recently she has worked in the migrant crisis in Europe and Central America through which she has established a storytelling project for children: migrantchildstorytelling.org. Stories and pictures from this project are included in her new book: The Migrant Diaries (Fordham University Press 2021). Her other published works include: Then They Started Shooting:Children of the Bosnian War and the Adults They Become, (Bellevue Literary Press 2013) and Outside the Asylum: A Memoir of War, Disaster and Humanitarian Psychiatry (Orion 2017). Jones has an MA in human sciences from the University of Oxford. She qualified in medicine before specializing in psychiatry and has a PhD in social psychology and political science. In 2001, she was made an Officer of the British Empire for her work in child psychiatry in conflict-affected areas of Central Europe. She regularly consults for UNICEF and WHO. She is a visiting scientist at the François-Xavier Bagnoud Centre for Health and Human Rights, Harvard University.
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