Christina Cruz is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the Division of Global Mental Health in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine and a Clinical Assistant Professor in the School Psychology Program at the UNC School of Education. She is the PI of the Global Child Mental Health Collaborative @ UNC. While faculty at UNC, Dr. Cruz has been awarded the AACAP Junior Investigator Award, the Thrasher Early Career Award, the Caregivers at Carolina Award from the Fund to Retain Clinical Scientists at the Doris Duke Foundation, a UNC Children’s Development Early Career Investigator Grant, the Gene Orringer Junior Faculty Career Development KL2 (TraCS KL2) at UNC, and the Doris Duke Foundation’s Clinical Scientist Development Award. She is serving a 3-year term as a member of the Council on Research of the American Psychiatric Association. During her general psychiatry residency at UNC, Dr. Cruz was named a SAMHSA Minority Fellow through the American Psychiatric Association. While a child and adolescent psychiatry fellow at UNC, she was awarded the AACAP Pilot Research Award and named an OGHE UNC Global Health Scholar. Dr. Cruz received her MD from Harvard Medical School and concurrently her Masters in Education in Prevention Science and Practice from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. While at Harvard pursuing dual degrees, she was named a Zuckerman Fellow. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Economics, with concentrations in Finance and Accounting, summa cum laude, from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.