Judit Balazs
Professor of Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary, and Oslo New University College, Norway
Judit Balazs, M.D., Ph.D., DSc, is a Child- and adolescent psychiatrist and Psychiatrist.
She is Professor Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary, and New University College, Oslo, Norway; Doctor of Sciences of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences; head and tutor of the Developmental and Clinical Child Psychology Program at the Doctoral Schools of Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest; tutor of the Semmelweis University, Budapest.
Her main interests are adolescent suicide prevention, neurodevelopmental disorders, subthreshold mental disorders, migration-acculturation-mental health, and quality of life. She is the first author of several peer-reviewed papers and the editor of a textbook on Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, published both in Hungarian and English. She was the Hungarian partner Principal Investigator of three EU-sponsored collaborative projects and several local projects on youth mental health.
She was the president of the Hungarian Psychiatric Association and chair of the Suicide Network of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology. She is the chair of the Child Psychiatry Section of the European Psychiatric Association.