Speaker
Clara Faria
Junior Doctor and MPhil candidate in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge
Biography
Clara is a junior doctor, graduated from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) working as a Research Assistant at the Laboratory of Panic and Respiration. She has presented her research at International Conferences numerous times, has active involvement in international research in translational neuroscience and joins advocacy efforts towards ending stigma against mental disorders on social media. Clara, alongside her studies, has been an active member of the Global Mental Health Think Tank within which she is now leading a new project on neurodevelopmental disorders. Clara has been described by her Research Mentor as a “lit candle of hope for global child and adolescent mental health in and from Brazil.