Emilie Transue is a 5th year graduate student at the University of Pittsburgh, planning to compete a dual medical and public health degree by June 2019. Due to their strong interest in healthcare policy and administration, Emilie is also pursuing a certificate in Health Systems Leadership and Management. Clinically, Emilie is interested in providing culturally-informed psychiatric care and is a National Health Service Corps Scholar. At GSPH, they are hoping to use their public health orientation and health policy expertise to better understand and improve the effect of poverty, violence, and incarceration on the mental health of our communities. Emilie is working on two projects related to violence: 1) creating a Threat Assessment and Management Team for a local integrated delivery system and 2) Improving employment-based reentry programs for PA State Correctional Institutions. Emilie hopes to bring their training as a public health professional forward into psychiatry residency and professional career. After completing residency and their service commitment to the National Health Service Corps, Emilie plans to providing psychiatric care in underserved and incarcerated individuals. They also hope to contribute constructive leadership in public agencies like the Department of Justice, working to restructure the current systems of providing mental and physical healthcare. Finally, Emilie intends to continue strong professional advocacy for altering our discriminatory structural determinants of health and for improving healthcare accessibility.
1/03/2017