Camille R. Quinn

Camille R. Quinn, PhD, AM, LCSW, LISW-S, LMSW, is a health criminologist scholar whose research focuses on investigating the health and mental health equity of Black/African American adolescents and young adults at the intersections of race, gender, health, crime and system involvement. She uses community-based participatory and mixed methods approaches to identify and address the needs of Black girls and young women involved in the youth punishment system to develop and advance effective and proactive prevention and intervention approaches as well as practice, policy, and research. Quinn partners with members of the health/mental health and legal/correctional communities to develop and test healing-focused interventions.

Currently, Quinn is the principal investigator (PI) of a National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities Loan Repayment Program renewal award (2L60MD017910-02) and an R21 funded project (2R21MD016940-01A1) focused on developing and testing a healing centered intervention to reduce mental health disparities of court-involved Black girls and their caregivers. She is a co-PI of the MacArthur Foundation’s Safety and Justice Challenge grant, which invests in efforts to increase criminal justice reform at the local level.

Quinn received her PhD from the University of Illinois at Chicago, Jane Addams College of Social Work and was a National Institute of Mental Health Virtual Mentoring to Enhance Diversity (VMED) pre-doctoral scholar. She completed her AM in social service administration and a certificate in health administration and policy from the University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice (formerly the School of Social Service Administration). Her postdoctoral fellowship was in the Center for the Study and Prevention of Suicide at the University of Rochester Medical Center in the Department of Psychiatry.