PEJOVIĆ MILOVANČEVIĆ Milica
Director, Institute of Mental Health, Belgrade
Prof. Dr. Pejović Milovančević is renominated child psychiatrist, professor at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, and the acting director of the Institute for Mental Health. Beyond her professional affiliations she is also strategic leader of the health system reform, engaging in the fields that are responding to the needs of the most vulnerable children and their families. As such she is President of the Inter-sectorial Special Working Group of the Ministry of Health for Supporting and Monitoring of the Implementation of the National Program for Early Childhood Development, as well as a Special Working Group for Supporting Children and Families of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders. In the period from 2010-2018, she was the president of the Special Working Group of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Serbia for the implementation of the Special Protocol of the Health Care System for the Protection of Children from Abuse and Neglect. In these roles she has supported development of health system capacities to support families for nurturing care through home visiting, local teams for prevention and response to violence against children, as well as through expansion of the network of family oriented early childhood intervention services. She is currently the president of the Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Related Professions of Serbia (DEAPS). According to SCOPUS, her works were cited 11,860 times, total h index 24. Beyond Ministry of Health of the Republic of Serbia, she cooperates closely with other Ministries - such as education, family, social welfare as well as UNICEF, the Center for Children's Rights of Serbia and other international and national organizations.