Dr. Emma Lo

Biography

Dr. Lo has dedicated her career to working with vulnerable, marginalized populations, specifically focusing on individuals experiencing homelessness and serious mental illness. She is the founder and Medical Director of the newly established Street Psychiatry Program at the Connecticut Mental Health Center (CMHC) and is actively involved with the Street Medicine Institute. Dr. Lo serves as a faculty advisor for the Learning Education Advisory Panel and supervises the Street Medicine Institute Student Coalition, which is an international group of medical trainees developing practices for student-run street medicine programs globally. She has been invited to multiple internal and external speaking engagements to present her work in Street Psychiatry. Her research interests encompass mental health services implementation, healthcare access issues for vulnerable populations, medical education, structural competency regarding social determinants of health, and addressing racial and economic disparities at systemic levels. Prior to her time at Yale, Dr. Lo worked with a prominent street medicine program in Pittsburgh, PA, and served as a Street Medicine Fellow in Kolkata, India, where she contributed to quality improvement programs providing medical care to people living in the streets and slums. She also established and led a new student-run street medicine program at the University of Rochester during medical school, focusing on connecting individuals experiencing homelessness with medical care and education. Additionally, she spent a year in rural Uganda training Village Health Workers and improving access to primary care.

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