Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior

Jamilah R. George graduated from the University of Michigan’s Honors Program with a B.A. in women’s and gender studies and English, and minors in psychology and music. After teaching 12^th grade AP English for 1 year, Jamilah attained Master of Divinity and voice performance from Yale University. With ongoing interest in psychological processes, Jamilah became a post-graduate research associate in the Yale Psychiatry Clinical Neuroscience Research Unit. In 2018, she began her M.S./Ph.D. at the University of Connecticut (UConn) researching sociocultural health disparities and behavioral health outcomes in ethnoracial minoritized individuals, and neurologically-driven interventions for PTSD/racism-based trauma and OCD. Jamilah has authored 20 peer-reviewed publications and over 35 conference presentations and posters around the globe. Her work is supported by several funding agencies, including the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the UConn Graduate School. She has been featured in the press for her work in racism and equity in psychedelics, including a cover story in the Washington Post. In 2024, Jamilah began her clinical psychology pre-doctoral internship within the Behavioral Medicine Track at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Under the research mentorship of Drs. Laura Stroud and Chrystal Vergara-Lopez, Jamilah received a Pre-Doctoral Internship Research Grant Award to conduct a quantitative systematic review on posttraumatic stress and racial discrimination in Black American adults. Following internship, Jamilah will continue her work at Brown as a postdoctoral fellow in the Research Fellowship Training Program. Jamilah is grateful for her clinical supervisors, research mentors, patients, and supportive family and friends.