Jill L. Barron, MD MHS is a Child, Adolescent and Adult psychiatrist who completed her training at Yale-‐New Haven Hospital, and at the Yale Child Study Center in New Haven, CT.
She completed her Masters in Health Sciences at Yale University in the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program. There, Dr. Barron examined health care delivery systems and policies, with a primary focus on examining children’s unmet mental health care needs nationally with a particular focus on the privately insured. She examined inner city youth gun violence along with colleagues, community partners, and youth who engaged in gun violence.
Dr. Barron is the Immediate Past President of the Connecticut Council of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, branch of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, where her focus was on access to care for children with mental illness.
She is the Associate Director of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine where she teaches, mentors, develops programming for medical students, and is currently engaged in the curriculum redesign.
Dr. Barron has served as a consultant for UNICEF in the Post-Soviet Republic of Georgia, where she helped rewrite the country’s health guidelines, which hadn’t been updated since the decentralization of the USSR.
Dr. Barron has expertise working with children, adults, families, and communities post traumatic events. She is a consulting psychiatrist to the NYC Fire Department (FDNY) and treats firefighters with postraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) secondary to the events of September 11, 2001. She consults to first responder communities locally and nationally.
Dr. Barron currently advises leadership in her role as the Newtown Mental Health Advisor.
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