Biography
Pantea Javidan, JD, PhD, is faculty of the Human Rights in Trauma Mental Health Program at Stanford University Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and fellow at Stanford’s Center for Human Rights and International Justice, where she contributes to the development of trauma-informed frameworks for international investigations, accountability mechanisms, and survivor-centered legal processes. Her work integrates law, psychology, and sociology to examine how structural violence, trauma, and inequitable governance impact justice and well-being globally, with publications spanning human trafficking and children’s rights, biosocial and socioecological trauma models, refugee and migrant mental health, and public health policy. Her scholarship, which is grounded in contributions to UN and international justice bodies, advances rights-based, trauma-informed, and scalable mental health and psychosocial supports approaches that address systemic inequalities across the life course.
