Yudilyn Jaramillo, MPH

Yudilyn is a public health professional who is looking to advance access to behavioral health for minority populations and investigate and help dissipate these individuals' health inequalities.

Prior research includes 1) home-based education intervention for parents of children with asthma and 2) public school asthma education for children in the New York City area created by Marina Reznik, MD, at the Children's Hospital at Montefiore. Additionally, she was the research assistant on the evaluation of the enhancement of a web-based version of cognitive-behavioral therapy for Spanish alcohol use disorders in New Haven, CT, under the principal investigators Dr. Kathleen Carroll and Dr. Manuel Paris, Yale University Associate Professors. She is currently working as a research coordinator on the evaluation and promotion of alcohol use disorder treatment after hospitalization under the principal investigators Dr. Brian Kiluk and Dr. E. Jen Edelman.

Yudilyn is a doctoral student candidate at Rutgers University. Her intended dissertation project is "Barriers and Facilitators Related to Substance Use Disorders and Mental Health Disorders in the Latinx Community and How to Improve Medical Outcomes."

She is one of the co-chairs of Project Synapse, a staff-developed committee whose goal is to respond to staff issues raised in the Yale Psychiatry Department workplace survey. She was one of the co-chairs of the mission statement writing group, the first to write a mission statement for the Yale Psychiatry Department in decades. She is also an active member of the anti-racism task force and staff subcommittee.

Yudilyn enjoys spending time with her family, listening to music, and watching comedy in her free time.