Enrico Castillo, M.D., M.S.

Faculty Member

Biography

Dr. Enrico Castillo is a community psychiatrist, health services researcher, and medical educator. He is the Medical Director for Clinical Innovations and Strategy in the San Francisco County Department of Public Health Behavioral Health Services. In this role he creates and implements new clinical programs, advises health system leaders, collaborates with frontline providers to improve existing services, and enhances data systems to support evaluation and continuous quality improvement. His leadership, research, and teaching centers on public service, community-government-academic partnerships, and improving the systems and programs that serve individuals with serious mental illness, especially in the areas of homelessness and incarceration. He has secured over $1.9 million in research funding and over $4 million in government contracts in the role of PI and Co-PI, having led NIMH K23 and R34 studies on the jail-to-homelessness pipeline experienced by individuals with serious mental illness. He serves in several national and state leadership roles in research and medical education, including the Mental Health Advisory Board of the Association of American Medical College, multiple roles within the American Psychiatric Association, Career Development Institute for Psychiatry, National Alliance to End Homelessness, and the California State Council on Criminal Justice and Behavioral Health. He is on the editorial boards of the journals Academic Psychiatry, Psychiatric Services, and Community Mental Health Journal. Dr. Castillo was previously an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at UCLA and is the co-editor of the forthcoming book, "Homelessness: A Clinical Guide for Providing Mental Health Care for People Experiencing Homelessness," by American Psychiatric Association Publishing. He was a member of the second cohort (2021-2023) of the New Voices Program of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and is a National Academy of Medicine Emerging Leaders in Health and Medicine Scholar (2025-2028).

Areas of Expertise:
Public mental health systems and services, health equity, health services and policy research, social medicine research, mixed methods research, community-government-academic partnerships, curriculum development, graduate medical education, structural competency, physician advocacy, domestic and international scientific engagement, homelessness and housing policy, incarceration, serious mental illness medicine, community-government-academic partnerships, curriculum development, graduate medical education, structural competency, physician advocacy, domestic and international scientific engagement, homelessness and housing policy, incarceration, serious mental illness