Marcela Horvitz-Lennon is a senior physician policy researcher at RAND and a professor of policy analysis at the RAND School of Public Policy. She is also an associate professor of psychiatry (part-time) at Harvard Medical School, and a senior scientist at the Health Evaluation Research Laboratory, Cambridge Health Alliance, a safety-net hospital where she is also a practicing psychiatrist. She has research experience in various topics of relevance to individuals with serious mental illness, whose high disease burden is compounded by social disadvantage. Topics include health care access, quality, and costs; racial, ethnic, and geographic disparities; effectiveness and safety of treatments; underuse/overuse of mental health interventions; integration of physical and mental health care; diffusion of innovations; impacts of harmful social determinants of health; and Medicaid and federal health care policy. Horvitz-Lennon has led NIH-funded investigations and publicly-funded contract work to advance knowledge on these topics and evaluate clinical and policy strategies seeking to improve care and outcomes for this vulnerable population. She has served as reviewer and chair at standing and ad-hoc NIH study sections, and is a longtime member of the American Psychiatric Association's Clinical Guideline Writing Group. Horvitz-Lennon has mentored pre-doctoral students and served as member/director of Ph.D. dissertation committees. Horvitz-Lennon earned her M.D. in Santiago, Chile, and a Master's degree in public health at Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health. She completed her psychiatric residency training at the University of Maryland Medical School and a fellowship in community psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Medical School.
M.D. in medicine with intern, Pontifical Catholic University; M.P.H. in public health, Johns Hopkins University
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Associate Professor (part-Time), Harvard Medical School
