Anna Duncan

Anna is a Program Operations Specialist at CoLab for Community & Behavioral Health Policy, which balances community expertise with research evidence to spark meaningful change in adolescent and family-serving behavioral health systems in Washington State. In her role, Anna coordinates initiatives aimed at strengthening the quality of publicly funded child and adolescent behavioral healthcare. These initiatives include increasing culturally responsive care, improving the quality of clinical supervision, embedding clinical coaching to improve the quality and scale up of effective services, addressing the workforce crisis, and developing clinical interventions to better support high-acuity adolescent mental health needs

 

The CoLab for Community & Behavioral Health Policy, housed within the University of Washington Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, reimagines how evidence can be integrated with community expertise to advance behavioral health policy. It supports a long-term research practice partnership with the state of Washington to improve access and quality in child and youth behavioral health services, in addition to conducting research on strategies to improve policy and system improvement with diverse sectors. This includes studies on the development and implementation of system innovation, evidence translation and synthesis services, and evidence-based policy and programmatic decision support.