About

Dr. Bath is a Professor and Vice Chair for Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in the Department of Psychiatry, and senior advisor for the UCLA DGSOM Antiracism Roadmap (ARR). She is board certified in child and adolescent, adult, and forensic psychiatry. Dr. Bath has a long-standing interest in community mental health and health inequities and has committed her career to advancing health equity for racialized, minoritized, and marginalized youth and families, with specialized focus on youth impacted by the foster care and juvenile legal systems. Dr. Bath has dedicated her time to working with structural vulnerable populations and consults regularly with the court system. Her portfolio of research has included funding from the National Institutes of Health, National Institutes of Drug Abuse, PCORI, and Los Angeles County Department of Probation. She teaches on structural racism, antiracism and racism, and its impacts on biomedical research, workforce, and mental health. As a senior strategist, she leads or co-leads a variety of initiatives, including but not limited to, Restorative Justice, the Racial Justice Report Card, the Antiracist Transformation in Medical Education, JEDI Academic Mentoring Council and the Black Latinx Native American Faculty Collective. Her current research involves community participatory models to increase engagement in behavioral and reproductive health with for girls with histories of commercial sexual exploitation and those in the child welfare and juvenile legal system.

Current Positions

  1. Vice Chair of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI)

  2. Director, Child Forensic Services, UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute

  3. Consulting Psychaitrist, Los Angeles County Juvenile Mental Health Court 

  4. Attending Psychiatrist, Westside Regional Center 

  5. Senior Advisor to the UCLA DGSOM Antiracism Roadmap

  6. Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA

Honors and Special Awards

  1. 1997 Recipient of American Society of Clinical Pathologist Summer Research Scholarship

  2. 1998 Winner for Poster Presentation at the Eastern Student Research Forum, Miami

  3. 1998 Winner for Poster Presentation at American College for Physician’s Regional Meeting

  4. 2004 American Psychiatric Association NY District Branch “Remarkable Member”

  5. 2004 Young Minds and Minority Fellow Award

  6. 2009 UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute Semel Scholar Award for Pilot Research

  7. 2010 Child Intervention, Prevention, and Services (CHIPS) Fellowship Institute

  8. Minority Faculty Development Seminar/American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC)

  9. 2017 Finalist for the American Psychiatric Association Psychiatry Innovation Lab

  10. 2017 Baron Jay Foundation Trailblazer Award

  11. 2018 AACAP Outstanding Mentor Award 

  12. 2017-2019 Selected for the Alcohol Medical Scholar Program

  13. Emerald Literati Award – Excellence Award for Research Article from Emerald Publishing

  14. Marlborough Woman of the Year 2022