Jennifer Green

Jennifer Greif Green is a Professor of Special Education and a child clinical psychologist at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Her research focuses on supporting students with emotional/behavioral disorders and bullying prevention. Within these lines of research, she studies teacher identification of students with mental health needs, racial/ethnic disparities in mental health service access, and youth bullying involvement. She also co-directs the Social Adjustment & Bullying Prevention Laboratory and is editor of the Journal of Education.

She has developed surveys to assess bullying in schools and has evaluated school-based bullying prevention and mental health promotion programs. She collaborates with a number of local schools and districts to support student social-emotional well-being and reduce bullying. Her work has been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, MetroWest Community Health Foundation, and Deborah Munroe Noonan Memorial Research Fund.