Dr. Mishra is an Associate Professor in the department of Psychiatry at the University of California San Diego. She is the founder and director of the NEATLabs and also the co-director of the University of California wide Climate Resilience Initiative (https://www.climateresilience.online/).
Dr. Mishra has research expertise in the study of climate trauma and resilience as well as scalable digital mental health interventions and precision psychiatry. Her research has been widely featured in popular media including features in CNN, TIME magazine, the BBC, NPR, Washington Post, World Economic forum, Scientific American among others, and has also been cited by the National Climate Assessment as first empirical evidence of climate disaster impacts on mental health and well-being.