Joel Burt-Miller is an MPH-45 student in the Health Policy program. He is also a medical student at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville. Joel is interested in the intersection of physical and mental health care. He seeks to utilize his training, experiences, and perspective to dismantle inequity and promote holistic wellness while alleviating barriers to accessing physical and mental health services for historically marginalized communities as a future physician.
Joel’s project focuses on understanding the barriers to assessing mental health status and risk in a Jamaican context. Through the digitalization of a mental health screening tool, this project seeks to expand needed mental health screenings and timely analysis for at-risk youth within inner-city Jamaican high schools.