Meet our team

Zsófia Szlamka, Research Lead at Orygen Global, is a developmental psychologist and mental health researcher.

At Orygen, she works on the development and evaluation of youth mental health service models in diverse cultural settings—including previous work in Serbia and more recently in partnership with headspace Denmark.

She is also involved in strengthening measurement practices in global mental health science, leading a Wellcome Trust–commissioned project to scope a platform for culturally adapted, version-controlled outcome measures.

Beyond Orygen, Zsófia is the co-founder of Let’s CEE, the first youth mental health network and research hub for Central and Eastern Europe. She is also the founder of AMKA Counselling, a cross-cultural mental health consultancy and completed her PhD at King’s College London, focusing on health inequalities and family empowerment in Ethiopia and Argentina.