Dr. Jill Murphy, PhD, is a Research Associate in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada and is the Executive Director of the APEC Digital Hub for Mental Health. Her research expertise is in global mental health and implementation science with a focus on equitable access to digital mental health care, integrating evidence-based mental health care into primary care and community-based settings, workplace mental health, and equitable stakeholder engagement in global mental health research.

She is particularly interested in the meaningful engagement of people with lived experience of mental health conditions in research and in policy engagement to promote mental health systems strengthening.

Her work primarily focuses on the Asia Pacific region, and she is currently a co-investigator on studies seeking to improve access to and uptake of evidence-based digital mental health interventions among adults and youth in China and Vietnam.