Melissa Brymer, PhD

Dr. Melissa Brymer is Director of the Terrorism and Disaster Program of the UCLA/Duke University National Center for Child Traumatic Stress and its National Child Traumatic Stress Network. In this capacity, Dr. Brymer is involved with the development of acute interventions, assessment, and educational materials in the area of disasters, mass violence and school crises. She is one of the primary authors of NCTSN/NCPTSD Psychological First Aid and Skills for Psychological Recovery and has served as a consultant for many Federal, state, and local agencies across the country and internationally after large-scale emergencies. Dr. Brymer served as a member of the National Academies of Sciences Committee Examining the Impact of  Active Shooter Drills on Student Wellbeing and she is a Researcher at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.