Dr. Suzan Song believes that clinical work should inform research, to then be used for policy to advocate for youth who are not given a voice. Her clinical work stems from an M.D. from the University of Chicago Pritzker Medical school, adult psychiatry residency training at Harvard Longwood, and a pediatric psychiatry fellowship at Stanford. She is also trained in systemic family therapy through the Bay Area Family Therapy Program and is in a 2-yr program on parent-child therapy at UCSF/CTI.

She had a George Soros Open Society Initiative fellowship working with survivors of abuse, and is medical director of Asian Americans for Community Involvement (AACI), a community-based clinic in San Jose, CA. She enjoys working with low-income families and children, and refugees from the AACI/Center for Survivors of Torture (CST).

From a policy standpoint, she has an MP.H. in health policy from the Harvard School of Public Health and is a former White House APIA Initiative fellow. She currently serves on a team of policy advisors to the Ministry of Health in Liberia with Harvard/MGH, and has worked on mental health systems of care for war-affected youth and former child soldiers in Sierra Leone.

From a research perspective, she is a Stanford/VA MIRECC research fellow, incorporating systems of care for highly vulnerable youth from war and is currently working in Burundi and Haiti. Other global grassroots and clinical work include HIV work in KwaZulu/Natal, South Africa (1999), to more recent work doing capacity building in child mental health in Ethiopia. She also does pro-bono work for Physicians for Human Rights (since 2004) and Survivors International (2010).

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