Panter-Brick's research is noted for being interdisciplinary; her work includes studies of adolescence and mental health within humanitarian crises.

Educated in both France and the United Kingdom, Panter-Brick graduated with a Baccalauréat from the Lycée Français de Londres in 1977.

For example, one of her courses, Global Health Colloquium, has included interdisciplinary learning at the United Nations in New York City as well as speakers from external organizations.

Panter-Brick's students are also provided opportunities to write policy briefs commissioned by organizations such as the African Development Bank, Charité, Mercy Corps, and UNICEF.

[2][9] While completing her doctoral dissertation, she was a member of a research team from the French Centre national de la recherche scientifique.

Since then, her research has been comparative in nature, drawing from her projects on refugee mental health in Afghanistan and Syria and from her other work in Costa Rica, Ethiopia, The Gambia, India, Jordan, Mauritania, Nepal, Niger, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, and Tanzania.

With Panter-Brick as the principal investigator, Yale University, in collaboration with the Mercy Corps, "[measured] the health and wellbeing impacts of a scalable programme of psychosocial intervention for refugee youth.