Martha Bragin, Ph.D., LCSW is Associate Professor at Hunter College School of Social Work, as well as clinical and research faculty in Social Work at the International Program on Refugee Trauma (IPORT) at Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons.  She is a member of the working group on the psychological effects of social exclusion of the International Psychoanalytic Association, the Committee on Psychoanalysis in the Community of the American Psychoanalytic Association.

For the past 25 years, Dr. Bragin has served as consultant to governments, international organizations, demilitarization and reintegration of soldiers following war with special attention to women and children.  She has developed and assessed psychosocial programs for children and families in conflict situations in South America, Africa and the Middle East.  She also works on the assessment design monitoring and evaluation of programs that address the consequences of violence on children, adolescents and their communities.

Dr. Bragin is the author of numerous publications on mitigating and transforming violence.  She is in private practice in Manhattan.