| Bio: |
For over 15 years, David Lambert has directed the Mental Health Program Area within the Cutler Institute for Health and Social Policy, Muskie School for Public Service, and served as a Senior Research Associate on the Rural Health Research Center. The Center's mission is to inform health care policymaking and the delivery of rural health services through high quality, policy relevant research, policy analysis, and technical assistance on rural health issues of regional and national significance. Lambert’s technical assistance and research areas focus on projects that improve access to, quality and effectiveness of mental health care to vulnerable populations, particularly access to mental health services in rural areas; coordination and integration of primary care and mental health; rural managed behavioral health programs; recovery models; and evidence-based practice. Much of Lambert’s research and publications focus on improving collaboration and coordination of family mental health services across service systems, including child welfare, mental health, substance abuse, and primary care. Lambert is also the Director of the evaluation of Northeast and Caribbean Child Welfare Implementation Center (NCIC); Co-director of evaluation activities for the National Child Welfare Resource Center for Organizational Improvement; and Principal Investigator on a national study of rural tele-mental health programs. |
