Biiftu Duresso is a Clinical Research Coordinator at the Center for Mental Health supporting Dr.
Courtney Benjamin Wolk’s TeamSTEPPS and BRIDGE projects. The TeamSTEPPS study aims to
tailor and evaluate an evidence-based strategy to improve school-based mental health teams’
functioning. BRIDGE aims to bring a mental health consultation model to the School District of
Philadelphia to support teachers’ implementation of strategies to support struggling students.
Biiftu graduated from Barnard College with a Bachelor of Arts in Neuroscience and Behavior
with a Cellular Concentration in 2019. She is passionate about developing and evaluating
interventions in community-based settings to support the mental health of individuals from
systematically oppressed backgrounds.