Yasmin Ama Rawlins

Yasmin Rawlins, MD, grew up in New Jersey and attended high school in New

York City. She graduated cum laude from Harvard University in 2015 with a major in

African and African-American studies, and a minor in Human Evolutionary Biology.

Her undergraduate thesis was written on her qualitative study of patient experience on

The Family Van, a mobile health clinic providing free health services to underserved

communities throughout Boston. She was awarded the Sangu Delle Prize for Best Social

Engagement Thesis, the Alain Locke Prize for Most Outstanding Academic Scholar in

African-American Studies, and the Joseph Garrison Parker Prize. Yasmin received her

M.D. from Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons in 2019.

During medical school, she served as the executive board community service

representative for the Black and Latino Students Organization, a co-leader of the

American Medical Women’s Association chapter, and a volunteer senior student

clinician in the behavioral health clinic at the Columbia Student Medical Outreach

Program. She also conducted research on ethnic differences among participants at

OnTrackNY, an early intervention program for first episode psychosis. Upon graduation,

she was elected as a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society and

Gold Humanism Honor Society, and awarded the Barbara Liskin Memorial Award in

Psychiatry. Yasmin completed her internship year in psychiatry at the University of

Southern California and served as a delegate to the Committee of Interns and Residents.

Most recently, Yasmin worked as a clinical assessor for the TRIUMPH study, a

randomized controlled trial examining an evidence-based intervention for engagement

with mental health services within African-American churches. Her clinical interests

include racial and ethnic health/healthcare disparities, public psychiatry, child and

adolescent psychiatry, and psychotherapy. She is honored to continue her training as a

psychiatry resident at Yale University.