Alex Sheehan is a fourth-year Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) Candidate at Tulane University, Lived Experience Council Member of One Mind and the Healthy Brains Global Initiative, Health Policy Research Scholar at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Elinor Ostrom Fellow at the Mercatus Center of George Mason University. Alex's research focuses on the impacts of lived experience with mental illness on state-level mental and behavioral health policy innovation and sustainability. In August 2024, he co-founded the Global Network of Health Equity Doctoral Scholars whose mission is to empower doctoral and post-doctoral scholars to connect, collaborate, and support one another in advancing health equity through bridging academic scholarship, professional experience, and lived expertise.