Byron Powell, PhD
Assistant Professor
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
135 Dauer Drive
Campus Box 7411
Chapel Hill,
NC
USA
27599-7411
Email:
byronjpowell@gmail.com
Biographical Sketch: Byron Powell is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. His research focuses on efforts to improve the quality of mental health and social services that are provided in community settings. Specifically, he is working to develop a better understanding of the types of strategies that can be used to implement effective services, and the organizational and systemic factors that can facilitate or impede implementation and quality improvement.
Prior to coming to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Byron received a BA in psychology from Taylor University, an AM in clinical social work from the University of Chicago, and a PhD in social work from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Mental Health Policy and Services Research. At Washington University in St. Louis, he received National Institutes of Health-funded training through fellowships in mental health services research (NIMH T32MH19960) and clinical research (NCRR TL1RR024995). Byron’s dissertation was a mixed methods multiple case study of six children’s mental health organizations that afforded the opportunity to learn from organizational leaders and providers and to evaluate the extent to which “implementation as usual” reflected emerging best practices specified in the literature. The study received funding from National Institute of Mental Health (F31MH098478), the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (Fellowship for the Advancement of Child Well-Being), and the Fahs-Beck Fund for Research and Experimentation.
Papers:
PM10
INTRODUCTION TO IMPLEMENTATION SCIENCE