Tina Malti is the Mary Ainsworth Distinguished Professor of Child Development at the University of Toronto, the founding director of the Centre for Child Development, Mental Health, and Policy at the University of Toronto Mississauga, and a registered clinical psychologist in Ontario, Canada. She is also president of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development (ISSBD).

Tina has an exceptional track record of achievements and impact in research and its influence on practice and policy. She has authored over 250 peer-reviewed publications in the areas of child development, mental health, and intervention research. She has been awarded various national and international grants, including a Canadian Institutes of Health Research Foundation Scheme Grant in support of her cutting-edge research. Tina is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (Division 7: Developmental Psychology and Division 53: Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology) and the Association for Psychological Science. In 2024, she was elected as a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, one of the highest honours for individuals in the Canadian health sciences community.

She has received several major awards for her research. For example, she has been named recipient of Germany’s most valuable international research award, the 2023 Alexander von Humboldt Professorship. In 2019, she was the recipient of the Desmond Morton Research Excellence Award in Science by the University of Toronto Mississauga. Her research has also been featured by the New York Times, The Atlantic, and other media outlets.

As a scholar with a blended cultural heritage, Tina feels fortunate to work with an extraordinarily dedicated, talented, and diverse team of undergraduate students, graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and inspiring colleagues in over 25 countries on five continents.

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