Lena Moraa Obara

Lena Moraa Obara is a Doctoral Candidate at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, where she also serves as a lecturer in Global Health Perspectives at the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. Her research focuses on the effects of the environment on the physical and mental health of women and girls, as well as the experiences of gender-based violence, coping mechanisms, and the mental health of women and youth in resettlement communities in East Africa. She earned her bachelor’s degree in industrial and organizational psychology from Makerere University in Uganda and holds a master's degree in Sociology from the University of Nairobi in Kenya.