Judith Peth

Judith Peth is a Research Group Head at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), affiliated with the Department of Medical Psychology within the Faculty of Medicine. Her work focuses on mental health research, particularly addressing barriers in healthcare access for individuals with autism spectrum disorders, mental disorder treatment models, and suicide risk prediction. She leads the research group in the Center for Psychosocial Medicine, contributing to studies like the RECOVER trial evaluating integrated care for mental disorders.

Key research interests include autism spectrum disorders, healthcare access inequities, mental health outcomes, and innovative therapeutic approaches. Her work bridges clinical psychology with public health, emphasizing population-level surveillance and health policy. Notable contributions include protocols for mental healthcare barriers in autism and cost analyses of mental disorders. Dr. Peth’s research also explores implicit cognition in psychiatric populations and metacognitive interventions for depression.

Her team collaborates on multi-disciplinary initiatives such as the BarrierfreeASD study and the European Mental Health Surveillance framework. She has published extensively on topics ranging from healthcare access to therapeutic outcomes, with a focus on translating research into scalable clinical solutions.