Focused on community-engaged, cross-system health services and implementation research in community settings including federally qualified health centers, low-and-middle income countries, publicly-funded mental health services, and HIV/AIDS care programs.
Current Team Members

Nicole Stadnick
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Dr. Nicole Stadnick, PhD., MPH., is the Lab Director. She is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at UC San Diego, Director of Dissemination and Evaluation of the UC San Diego Dissemination and Implementation Science Center, researcher at the Child and Adolescent Services Research Center and a licensed psychologist. Her program of federally, state and privately funded research focuses on evaluating the effectiveness and implementation of evidence-based practices intended for individuals seeking community-based health or mental health services. She has received NIH-funded fellowships from the Child, Intervention, Prevention, and Services Research Mentoring Network (2015-2016, the Implementation Research Institute (2017-2018) and the Mixed Methods Training Program for the Health Sciences (2019-2020). Her implementation science research is supported by NIMH, NIEHS, NIMHD, NHLBI and NIAID.
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Hannah Edwards
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Hannah Edwards is a research assistant at the Child and Adolescent Services Research Center (CASRC). She received her B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies in Three Departments (Biology, Public Health, & Rhetoric and Writing Studies) from San Diego State University. Broadly, Hannah is interested in using implementation science to promote equitable access to care for children and their families, particularly in the pediatric primary care and mental health service areas.