Sarah Starks is a doctoral student in UCLA's Department of Health Services. She has been at the center since 2001, and currently works as a research associate on System Transformation and Clinical Care, an evaluation of the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health's implementation of the California Mental Health Services Act. Her dissertation will be based on client outcomes data from this project. She also has worked on Implementing Effective, Collaborative Care for Schizophrenia (EQUIP-2); Antipsychotic Drugs: Science, Practice, and Culture, a clinical history of inpatient psychiatric care from the 1950s to the present; the Witness for Wellness community participatory partnership research project; Media and Medicine for Communities; and the Community Updates series. Sarah graduated from Stanford University in 2001 with a degree in Public Policy and a minor in Psychology.