Jasmin Scott-Hawkins, MD, MPH, QME completed her undergraduate career at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) where she received a BA degree. After graduating from college, she devoted one year to completing clinical research in collaboration with UCLA and Charles Drew University seeking to improve quality of life for postmenopausal women with socioeconomic barriers to receiving quality care. Dr. Hawkins then attended both medical school and graduate school at the Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine where she received her MD and MPH degrees from their Physician Leadership Development Program. During medical school, she was awarded a competitive Helping Hands Grant from the American Psychiatric Association/American Psychiatry Association Foundation (APA/APAF) to develop and implement a parenting and safer sex education program for parenting and pregnant homeless youth to promote safer sex and repeat pregnancy prevention. Dr. Hawkins then completed her adult psychiatry residency training at the University of Southern California in association with Los Angeles County (LAC+USC) and child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship training at UCLA in association with Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. She is board certified in both adult psychiatry as well as child and adolescent psychiatry.