Dr Valentina Iemmi is Visiting Fellow at LSE Health and Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Global Mental Health in the Department of Health Service & Population Research at King’s College London.

Dr Iemmi’s research focuses on global mental health policy. She integrates multi-disciplinary approaches to investigate governance, analysing how and why global actors support mental health worldwide and how they can improve their collective response. Her research includes extensive analysis of external actors investing in mental health in low- and middle-income countries such as governments, and multilateral and philanthropic organisations.

Her work has been published in top-tier journals, including The Lancet Psychiatry, and Social Science & Medicine. It has informed the activities of numerous national and international organisations for which she advised and/or consulted, including World Health Organization, UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, and Global Innovation Fund.

Before joining King’s, Dr Iemmi was Senior Lecturer in Global Public Health at University of Essex and postdoctoral LSE Fellow in the Department of Health Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). She held pre-doctoral research positions at LSE, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), and University of Paris V and University of Paris VIII in France.

She holds a PhD from the Department of Social Policy at LSE, for which she was awarded the 2020/21 Richard Titmuss prize for best thesis. She also has a MSc in Health Policy, Planning and Financing from LSHTM & LSE, and the title of Clinical Psychologist from the University of Paris VIII in France.