Co-Directors


Leopoldo Cabassa, Ph.D.

  • Professor
  • Brown School of Social Work, Washington University in St. Louis
  • Areas of interest: Implementation science, racial/ethnic disparity in health and mental health care

Byron Powell, Ph.D.

  • Associate Professor
  • Areas of interest: Implementation research, behavioral health, qualitative and mixed-methods research, community-engaged research

Assistant Director


Morgan Shields, Ph.D.

  • Assistant Professor
  • Brown School of Social Work, Washington University in St. Louis
  • Areas of interest: Implementation strategies to improve patient-centered behavioral healthcare, financing, payment, and regulations, quasi-experimental designs, prospective randomized controlled trials, community-partnered research, disability inclusion and justice

Core Team


Enola Proctor, Ph.D.

  • Shanti K. Khinduka Distinguished Professor Emerita
  • Brown School of Social Work, Washington University in St. Louis
  • Areas of interest: Dissemination and implementation research, mental health services delivery, evaluation of clinical social work

Rebecca Lengnick-Hall, Ph.D.

  • Research Assistant Professor
  • Brown School of Social Work, Washington University in St. Louis
  • Areas of interest: Implementation research, organizational science, qualitative and mixed-methods research, mental health services

CMHSR Affiliated Faculty 


Peg Allen, Ph.D.

  • Research Assistant Professor
  • Areas of interest: Evidence-based public health, dissemination research 

Wendy Auslander, Ph.D.

  • Barbara A. Bailey Professor of Social Work
  • Areas of interest: Health and behavior promotion, childhood abuse and adolescent risky behaviors, intervention research and evaluation

Carolyn Baum, Ph.D., OTR/L, FAOTA

  • Professor of Occupational Therapy, Neurology and Social Work
  • Areas of interest: Rehabilitative and recovery-oriented approaches in mental health, chronic disease

Ana Baumann, Ph.D.

  • Research Assistant Professor
  • Areas of interest: Dissemination and implementation research, Adaptation of evidence-based interventions and implementation strategies

Derek Brown, Ph.D.

  • Associate Professor
  • Areas of interest: Health and mental health economics, stated preference methods and health-related quality of life

Ross Brownson, Ph.D.

  • Bernard Becker Professor
  • Areas of interest: Chronic disease prevention through environmental and policy change, evidence-based public health, dissemination and implementation research

Kathleen K. Bucholz, Ph.D.

  • Professor of Psychiatry
  • Areas of interest: Substance abuse disorders and co-occurrence with mental disorders, risky behaviors

Sheretta Butler-Barnes. Ph.D.

  • Associate Professor
  • Areas of interest: Positive youth development, African Americans, mental health

Brian Carpenter, Ph.D.

  • Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences
  • Areas of interest: Aging, health communication, mental health services for older adults

Christopher Carpenter, M.D., M.S.

  • Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
  • Areas of interest: Evidence-based practice, implementation science

Patricia Cavazos-Rehg, Ph.D.

  • Associate Professor of Psychiatry
  • Areas of interest: Substance abuse and sexual risk behaviors, administrative data research

John Constantino, M.D.

  • Blanche F. Ittleson Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics
  • Areas of interest: Conduct disorder, aggression, autism

Heather Corcoran, M.F.A.

  • Jane Reuter Hitzeman and Herbert F. Hitzeman, Jr. Professor of Art
  • Areas of interest: Design of health data; data and information visualization; data communication

Brett Drake, Ph.D.

  • Professor
  • Areas of interest: Children born prenatally exposed to drugs, child protection and child protective practice

James M. DuBois, DSc, Ph.D.

  • Steven J. Bander Professor of Medical Ethics and Professionalism, Professor of Psychology
  • Areas of interest:  Mental health research ethics

Alexis Duncan, Ph.D.

  • Associate Professor
  • Areas of interest: Psychiatric epidemiology, substance use and related disorders

Tonya Edmond, Ph.D.

  • Associate Professor
  • Associate Dean for Diversity
  • Areas of interest: Violence against women, trauma-focused intervention research, implementation science

Bradley Evanoff, M.D., M.P.H.

  • Richard and Elizabeth Henby Sutter Professor of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
  • Areas of interest: Translational science

Amy Eyler, Ph.D.

  • Associate Professor
  • Areas of interest: Physical activity, childhood obesity, policies and preventative health

Victoria J. Fraser, M.D.

  • Adolphus Busch Professor of Medicine
  • Areas of interest: Health services research, infectious disease and healthcare epidemiology

Patrick Fowler, Ph.D.

  • Associate Professor
  • Areas of interest: Child maltreatment and child welfare, prevention science

Matthew Gabel, Ph.D.

  • Professor of Political Science
  • Areas of interest: Efficacy of expert consensus panels; group-decision making in mental health

Jane M. Garbutt, M.D.

  • Professor of Pediatrics, Allergy, Immunology and Pulmonary Medicine
  • Areas of interest: Improving the quality of care in the ambulatory settings, community-based and community-partnered research, implementing practice guidelines

Melody Goodman, Ph.D.

  • Assistant Professor of Surgery
  • Areas of interest: Biostatistical methods for community based interventions, statistical techniques for modeling disparities

Richard T. Griffey, M.D., M.P.H., FACEP

  • Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
  • Areas of interest: Implementation research

Shenyang Guo, Ph.D.

  • Frank J. Bruno Distinguished Professor of Social Work Research
  • Areas of interest: Quantitative research methodology, program and practice evaluations

Debra Haire-Joshu, Ph.D.

  • Joyce Wood Professor
  • Areas of interest: Health policy, transdisciplinary approaches to biomedical, behavioral, and public health research

Barton H. Hamilton, Ph.D.

  • Robert Brookings Smith Distinguished Professor of Economics
  • Areas of interest: Health economics and policy,risk adjustment and healthcare costs

Jenine Harris, Ph.D.

  • Associate Professor
  • Areas of interest: Dissemination research; social network analysis, systems science; social media

Darrel Hudson, Ph.D.

  • Associate Professor
  • Areas of interest: Health disparities, mental health

Aimee James, Ph.D., M.P.H.

  • Associate Professor of Surgery
  • Areas of interest: Health disparities, community-based research

Sean Joe, Ph.D.

  • Benjamin E. Youngdahl Professor of Social Development
  • Areas of interest: Health disparities, suicide, African American mental health

Melissa Jonson-Reid, Ph.D.

  • Ralph and Muriel Pumphrey Professor of Social Work Research
  • Areas of interest: Child welfare research, children’s public sector services and policy, interagency administrative data research 

Andrew Knight, Ph.D.

  • Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior
  • Areas of interest: Healthcare organizations

Patricia Kohl, Ph.D.

  • Associate Professor
  • Associate Dean of Social Work
  • Areas of interest: Intersection of child welfare and mental health, evidence-based parent training programs

Matthew Kreuter, Ph.D.

  • Kahn Family Professor of Public Health
  • Areas of interest: Health communication, cancer prevention and control, integrating health and social services

Edward Lawlor, Ph.D.

  • William E. Gordon Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Special Assistant to the Provost
  • Areas of interest: Aging, health policy, policy analysis, social services

Eric Lenze, M.D.

  • Professor of Psychiatry
  • Areas of interest: Anxiety and depression intervention in geriatrics, elderly persons’ mental health during rehabilitation after a disabling medical event

Shannon Lenze, Ph.D.

  • Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
  • Areas of interest: Mood and anxiety disorders in adults, implementation science

Rebecca Lester, Ph.D.

  • Associate Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology
  • Areas of interest: Personality disorders, eating disorders; suicide, ethnographic methods

Douglas Luke, Ph.D.

  • Professor
  • Areas of interest: Evaluation of public health programs, tobacco control and prevention policy

Timothy McBride, Ph.D.

  • Professor
  • Areas of interest: Health policy and health economics, health insurance, Medicare and Medicaid policy, rural health care

Ginger McKay, Ph.D.

  • Research Assistant Professor
  • Areas of interest: Dissemination and implementation of evidence-based practices to enhance HIV prevention services

Mary McKay, Ph.D.

  • Neidorff Family and Centene Corporation Dean
  • Areas of interest: Child mental health services, public health interventions to strengthen families, communities and systems 

Molly Metzger, Ph.D.

  • Assistant Professor
  • Areas of interest: Fair and affordable housing, social policy, segregation and inequality 

Nancy Morrow-Howell, Ph.D.

  • Bettie Bofinger Brown Distinguished Professor of Social Policy
  • Areas of interest: Productive and civic engagement in later life, social engagement in later life 

Ginger Nicol, M.D.

  • Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
  • Areas of interest: Cardiometabolic risk in mentally ill children, psychopharmacology

Margaret A. Olsen, Ph.D., M.P.H.

  • Professor of Medicine
  • Areas of interest: Administrative data research, Medicare and Medicaid, claims data analysis

Robert A. Pollak, Ph.D.

  • Hernreich Distinguished Professor of Economics – joint with Arts & Sciences
  • Areas of interest: Health economics, long-term care of the disabled elderly, families and social policy

William G. Powderly, M.D.

  • J. William Campbell Professor of Medicine
  • Areas of interest: Global health, clinical trials for HIV/AIDS

Jason Purnell, Ph.D.

  • Associate Professor
  • Areas of interest: Health equity, social determinants of health, research translation for population health improvement

Alex Ramsey, Ph.D.

  • Instructor in Psychiatry
  • Areas of interest: Implementation of evidence-based treatments for substance use disorders

Bradley P. Stoner, M.D., Ph.D.

  • Associate Professor of Medicine
  • Areas of interest: Health care delivery, care- seeking for STD testing, psychosocial effects of STD’s

Vetta Thompson, Ph.D.

  • Professor
  • Areas of interest: Racial identity, psychosocial implications of race and ethnicity in health and mental health

Jean-Francois Trani, Ph.D.

  • Associate Professor
  • Areas of interest: Mental health, disabilities, global health and mental health

Fred Ssewamala, Ph.D.

  1. William E. Gordon Distinguished Professor
  2. Areas of interest: Microfinance, Asset-based social programs, Disadvantaged children, Social and economic development policy, & Children and adolescent health
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