About

Dana Rusch, Ph.D. (pronouns: she/her/ella) is an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois Chicago in the Department of Psychiatry at the Institute for Juvenile Research (JR). She provides outpatient psychotherapy services to Latinx/e youth in mixed-status immigrant families, asylum seekers who arrived as unaccompanied minors, and UIC students impacted by immigration policies. Dr. Rusch created and directs the Immigrant Family Mental Health Advocacy Program to advance research-practice-policy training at the intersection of (im)migration and mental health. She is interested in models of mental health promotion that support community-based organizations, expand the mental health workforce, and incorporate advocacy and empowerment strategies. See Dr. Rusch’s UIC faculty profile for more on the IFMHA Program and selected recent publications.