The Center's staff and research team consists of Director Angela Beck, Deputy Director Matthew Boulton, investigators Brian Perron and Kyle Grazier, Program Manager Jessie Buche, Administrative Assistant Emma Maniere, and Research Assistants Phil Singer and Courtney Crawford. Our experience is diverse: areas of expertise range from the public health workforce to integrated care to global public health to state health policy to obesity prevention. We believe these assorted interests paired with a shared commitment to strengthening the behavioral health workforce will generate robust and scrupulous research. 

The BHWRC works with a national consortium of partners and experts in mental health, substance abuse, and health workforce research. The Consortium includes members from various organizations who set research priorities for the BHWRC and answer questions about the workforce in order to influence policies in a way that will strengthen the nation’s behavioral health care service delivery. Consortium members connect the Center's researchers to data, link researchers to professional associations and providers, provide project feedback, and assist in the dissemination of findings.                             more...