Mary Bunn

Dr. Mary Bunn, PhD, LCSW is a licensed clinical social worker and Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), Department of Psychiatry. She is also Core Faculty and Co-Director of the Global Mental Health Research and Training Program in the UIC Center for Global Health and runs a therapy clinic for refugees and asylum seekers at the UI Health.

Informed by more than twenty years of licensed clinical practice experience delivering therapy services and developing mental health programs domestically and globally, her research focuses on the development and testing of community-based mental health prevention and care interventions for survivors of war, torture and political violence across the migration continuum. This involves developing and testing a spectrum of services that improve mental health and strengthen families and social systems of care and connection. She is particularly interested in peer service models, family and group-based interventions and examining relational processes and factors in interventions.