Danielle R Busby

Dr. Danielle Busby is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist and Co-Founder of Black Mental Wellness Corp. (www.blackmentalwellness.com). She received her bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Michigan and her master’s and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the George Washington University. She completed her pre-doctoral internship, with a child trauma specialization, at Duke University’s Medical Center and a postdoctoral fellowship at Michigan Medicine in the Department of Psychiatry. 

Prior to her return to Duke as Co-Director of Data and Evaluation Program (DEP) for the National Center for Child Traumatic Stress (NCCTS), she has served as faculty at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) and Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Busby is passionate about decreasing barriers to mental health service use for underserved patient populations and is committed to continuously bridging the gap between research and clinical practice.  Her research and clinical work are centered on examining barriers to mental health service use, specifically among Black youth who are at an elevated risk for suicide. She has led and contributed to scholarly articles and research on child trauma, youth suicide prevention, racial discrimination among Black youth, and the psychological effects of neighborhood stressors, such as, community violence exposure among Black adolescents. Additionally, she was an awarded recipient of the National Institute of Mental Health’s Research Supplement to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research during her post-doctoral training, and currently serves as a Co-PI for a NIMH R21 titled, “Cultural Consensus Modeling to Identify Culturally Relevant Risk Factors for Suicide among Black Youth” and an NIMHD R01 titled “Understanding the Role of Structural Oppression for Suicide Risk among Black Sexual and Gender Minority Adolescents and Young Adults.”