Senior Behavioral Scientist, RAND; Professor of Policy Analysis, RAND School of Public Policy
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Lisa Meredith is a senior behavioral scientist at RAND and a professor of policy analysis at the RAND School of Public Policy. She has over 40 years of experience as a mental health services researcher. Her current work addresses collaborative care for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, and opioid use disorder; and health care provider experiences. She is currently leading two multi-site randomized controlled trials. One trial, funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), is evaluating the effectiveness of delivering Written Exposure Therapy as part of collaborative care to improve the management of PTSD among underserved patients in Federally Qualified Health Centers. Another trial, funded by the National Institute of Minority and Health Disparities (NIMHD), is evaluating a community health worker–delivered intervention to increase uptake of COVID-19 and influenza vaccination for those with common medical and mental health disorders. She is also a key investigator on a recently completed trial funded by NIMH to test collaborative care for patients with opioid use disorder co-occurring with depression and/or PTSD, and another current study funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to test a brief motivational intervention in primary care settings to prevent substance abuse for teens ages 12–17. She also led a recently completed PCORI trial that tested the effectiveness of Stress First Aid for healthcare workers to improve their well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Meredith has published over 200 peer-reviewed publications. She earned her Ph.D. in social psychology from Claremont Graduate University.
Ph.D. in applied social psychology, Claremont Graduate University; M.A. in general experimental psychology, California State University, Northridge; B.A. in psychology, California State University, Northridge
