Speaker's Profile

Dr. Billina Shaw is a triple board-certified psychiatrist and public health strategist who has spent her career at the intersection of clinical expertise, public health systems change, and human flourishing.Her background spans academia, local government, as well as federal government. She served as a Senior Medical Advisor at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), where she was a lead author and consultant to several sentinel documents including the 2023 Certified Community Behavioral Health Criteria and the 2025 National Behavioral Health Crisis Care Guidance. She also led the Interdepartmental Serious Mental Illness Coordinating Committee and spearheaded the national behavioral health strategy for bereavement and grief.Dr. Shaw's clinical credentials include fellowships in both the American Psychiatric Association and the American Society of Addiction Medicine, with specialized training in child, adolescent, and adult psychiatry, as well as addiction medicine. She earned her undergraduate degree from Yale University, medical degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and completed her adult and child/adolescent psychiatry residencies through the University of Maryland/Sheppard Pratt program. This setting that rooted her in community psychiatry from day one. Her MPH is from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she was a Bloomberg American Health Initiative Fellow in the Addiction & Overdose focus area which further expanded her the public health lens that now shapes her work.