Dr. Shairi Turner
Dr. Shairi Turner

Physician  ·  Advocate  ·  Author

Dr. Shairi

Turner

Chief Health Officer, Crisis Text Line. One of the most visible physician voices on youth mental health in national media. 217 engagements. 12.4 million impressions.

Book SpeakingHer Story

“Uncertainty and hope
can coexist.”

Dr. Shairi Turner  ·  Author, Uncertainty and Hope Can Coexist

Dr. Shairi Turner

About

She chose proximity
to the crisis she could
have avoided.

Fieldston. Stanford. Case Western. Mass General. Harvard. She had access to every corridor that medicine opens. She chose the ones where the problems were hardest.

First to build Florida's juvenile justice healthcare system. Deputy Secretary for Health. Now Chief Health Officer at Crisis Text Line, where every data point represents a person in crisis who reached out.

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Speaking

She brings a room
to silence, then
gets them to act.

Booking Inquiry

Youth Mental Health

The data and the kid behind it. What parents, educators, and policymakers must do now.

Crisis Intervention

Why text reaches who voice lines cannot. What the numbers reveal.

Health Equity

From juvenile justice to corporate America. Naming the design failures that produced this outcome.

Parenting in the Crisis

No wellness clichés. Practical, evidence-grounded tools from a physician who is also a mother.

Media

The record speaks
for itself.

Full Archive (217)
TV2024

49 National & Regional Outlets

49 outlets. 366 secured airings. 12.4 million impressions. Co-appeared with Carmela Wallace (Juice WRLD's moth...

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TIME Magazine

Extensively quoted on election-season mental health surges. "Preparing for what we anticipate will be a surge....

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Article2024

USA Today

Primary expert source on election anxiety and crisis line preparation.

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TV2024

MLB Network

Live segment with April Brown, SVP at Major League Baseball, on nationally televised MLB Network. Youth athlet...

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Radio2024

WNYC

Live on-air with WNYC's flagship political and cultural program on election stress and CTL resources.

New York, NY
Conference2025

Harvard Medical School

Harvard Center for Suicide Research and Prevention. Crisis text-based intervention and data-driven prevention ...

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The Book

Uncertainty and Hope
Can Coexist

Finding True North as a Physician
and Mental Health Advocate

A memoir about what it costs to show up every day in the hardest rooms in medicine. And what it gives back.

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“Not to be morbid, but in this work, you learn to count the days you didn't lose someone. That counting is a kind of prayer.”

Dr. Shairi Turner

217 media engagements  ·  2021 to present

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If you or someone you know is in crisis, text HOME or HOLA to 741741 to reach a live volunteer Crisis Counselor.