Michaela, Hynie

Michaela Hynie, Ph.D. is a Professor in the Department of Psychology, Executive Member of the Centre for Refugee Studies at York University, and an Honorary Professor in the College of Medicine in the University of Rwanda. Michaela collaborates with communities, community-serving agencies and activist groups on the development and evaluation of social, institutional and policy interventions that can improve health, mental health and well-being by addressing structural and social exclusion, both locally and globally. Michaela currently leads an NFRF-funded project focused on climate change displacement and dispossession among coastal communities in Bangladesh, Ghana, India and Philippines. Michaela is the past president of the Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies.