Hillary Kunins, MD
MPH Director of Behavioral Health Services and Mental Health
San Francisco
Mental Health
Dr. Hillary Kunins is the Director of Behavioral Health Services and Mental Health San Francisco at the San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH). In 2021, she joined SFDPH from the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) where she led the department’s public health approach to mental health and substance use, including innovations in treatment of serious mental illness, alternatives to criminal justice responses to behavioral health crises, and expanded overdose response. She is a general internist and addiction medicine physician who practiced in the Bronx, New York for over 15 years. She has dedicated her career to creating health equity through science-based public health and healthcare programs and policy for people with behavioral health concerns, including substance use disorders and serious mental illness.