Abhery Das, PhD
2023 B2F Scholar
Health Policy and Administration
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Abhery Das will join the division of Health Policy and Administration as a Bridge to Faculty Scholar. Her research examines mental health and psychiatric service utilization among minoritized communities resulting from policy implementation, exogenous shocks, and inequitable social systems. Her work on institutional racism in the criminal justice system demonstrates how police stops, police killings of unarmed Black Americans, and incarceration result in greater psychiatric help-seeking in the broader Black population. Her future projects include evaluation of policies that reduce racial disparities in policing and incarceration, as well as the mental health consequences of police presence and zero tolerance policies in urban schools.
Abhery completed her Bachelor of Arts in Public Policy from University of Chicago, her Master of Health Science from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and her PhD in Public Health from University of California, Irvine. Prior to her graduate studies, Abhery worked in healthcare change management consulting, mental health rehabilitation, and psychiatric clinical trials.