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Stacey Li

Stacey is an undergraduate student at Tulane University pursuing degrees in public health and cell & molecular biology. Her professional interest in mental health began when she volunteered as a suicide crisis counselor, further confirmed by serving assault survivors as a forensic medical advocate. Spending time in the ED in this role rerouted her interest to medicine, and she now additionally works as an ED medical scribe and mental health technician at a psychiatric hospital. At Tulane, she is a social work and health policy research assistant investigating behavioral health disparities and federal policies impacting health equity. Wanting to blend these interests, she became involved with the VBHL through the NIDA-funded Summer Research Institute at the Florida Mental Health Institute University of South Florida. She plans to continue working at the intersection of clinical medicine and public health. She is interested in improving collaborative care and continuum-based frameworks to broaden upstream behavioral health safety nets.