Dr. Jessica Liu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Science at California State University, Long Beach. Dr. Liu completed her postdoctoral research fellowship at the REACH Lab at Stanford University in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Adolescent Health, and is a graduate of the Population Health Sciences PhD program at Harvard University.

While a PhD candidate at Harvard, Dr. Liu served as Dr. Jeremy Nobel’s Teaching Fellow for his Loneliness & Public Health course and founded the Young Adult Advisory Council for the Foundation for Art & Healing. Dr Liu’s research focuses on adolescent and young adult health, and the intersection of substance use and mental health. Moreover, as a first-generation college student herself, Dr. Liu is passionate about teaching and mentoring first-generation and underrepresented students in STEM to pursue higher education and research careers.