Career
He is the Allan Rosenfield Professor of Forced Migration and Health at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. His research focuses on the effects of armed conflict and violence on children. In the late 1980s Boothby was a psychologist at Duke University, and he worked for Save the Children at the Lhanguene children"s center helping children that had been traumatized by exposure to armed conflict in Mozambique.
He also served as an advisor to the Mozambican Ministry of Health in the attempt to develop national programs to address this problem.
Boothby is currently the director of the Program on Forced Migration at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University.