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Amelia Mercado

MSc Student
Amelia Mercado

Amelia Mercado

MSc Student

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About

Amelia is a medical student at Baylor College of Medicine and a Rotary Global Grant Scholar. Her interests span violence prevention, health equity, interventional psychiatry, and health systems innovation.

Amelia aims to integrate AI into both social and clinical contexts, evaluating interventions that disrupt cycles of violence, advancing personalized approaches in psychiatry, and exploring how data science can improve access, efficiency, and patient care within healthcare systems. Her long-term goal is to combine medicine, policy, and data science to drive equitable solutions across public health and clinical practice.

Research Interests

Violence prevention; firearm injuries; community-based interventions; interventional psychiatry; neuromodulation; EMR optimization; healthcare access and efficiency

Positions at the OII

  • MSc Student, September 2025 -