Dr Lennart Reifels, PhD (Public Health), Dipl.-Psych. (Germany), is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Mental Health, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne and Visiting Research Fellow at the Disaster Research Unit, Department of Political and Social Sciences, Free University of Berlin.
Dr Reifels has extensive research and work experience in academic and national mental health service settings in Australia and Germany, encompassing research, direct service and national training management roles. His key research areas include: population mental health, mental health systems and service research, disaster risk reduction, and strategic adaptation in view of the globally increasing impacts of extreme climatic events and disasters. Dr Reifels has previously led the evaluation of national mental health responses to major Australian bushfire and flood disasters, provided technical reports to Government, and collaborated and published with leading disaster experts in the field. As part of his PhD, Dr Reifels conducted the first systematic state-level survey of the disaster mental health workforce in the world.
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Wesley LifeForce Networks Evaluation
Research Contracts
Mental health in a changing climate
NEWS ARTICLE
Health and disaster risk reduction regarding the Sendai Framework
Book Chapter
User experience case studies in 2 bushfire-affected regions
Research Contracts
Lived experience peer support programs for suicide prevention: a systematic scoping review
Journal article
The Victorian Disaster Mental Health Workforce Capacity Survey
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Honours, Awards and Fellowships
Best Scientific Paper Award - WADEM Congress on Disaster and Emergency Medicine, Brisbane, Australia
EU Scholar in Residence (Scholarship)
Outstanding Paper Award - ISTSS Conference (Post-Traumatic Stress: State of the Art Research and Clinical Implications for China) Hangzhou, China
Visiting Research Fellow, Disaster Research Unit (DRU), Free University of Berlin (2015-2016)
Credentials
Positions
Positions
Senior Research Fellow - Mental Health
Melbourne School Of Population And Global Health
Member
Global Burden of Disease Collaborator Network
Member
WHO Thematic Platform for Health-Emergency and Disaster Risk Management Research
Visiting Research Fellow
Disaster Research Unit, Free University of Berlin
Member
European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies
Education
Education
Doctor of Philosophy (Public Health)
University of Melbourne
Advanced Diploma (Community Services Management)
Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE
Certificate IV (Training and Assessment)
Australian Institute of Education and Training
Diplom Psychology (Germany)
Free University of Berlin