Amittia Parker

Dr. Amittia Parker, PhD, LMSW, MPA provides training and technical assistance for the National Center on Health, Behavioral Health, and Safety at Georgetown’s Center for Child Health and Human Development. Her research, scholarship, and service focuses on advancing minority mental health and equity, particularly among families that are pregnant and parenting young children. She has been involved with the Kansas Association of Infant Mental Health (KAIMH) for many years and served in several leadership roles, namely at large member, committee chair, vice president and president. She also started a standing committee on race and social justice in KAIMH and continues to serve on that committee. Dr. Parker received the KAIMH Alice Eberhart Wright Visionary Award in 2020.