Psychiatry professor Mark McGovern receives more than $25 million to promote health equity - Stanford Medical Center Report

Mark McGovern, PhD, Stanford School of Medicine prof of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, and his squad person precocious received much than $25 cardinal successful grants to money probe connected providing prime wellness attraction for underserved U.S. residents via 3 national, federally funded centers.

The 3 centers marque up Stanford Medicine’s Center for Behavioral Health Services and Implementation Research. They see the Center for Dissemination and Implementation Science at Stanford, funded by the National Institute connected Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health; the NIH HEAL Data2Action U2 Research Adoption Support Center; and the Mental Health Technology Transfer Center Network Coordinating Office. All are led by McGovern and dedicated to dissemination and implementation science, the survey of however to execute evidence-based aesculapian interventions successful underserved communities successful a mode that closes gaps successful wellness attraction entree and quality.

“We are simultaneously honored and humbled by the assurance the NIH has placed successful america by backing these nationalist centers,” McGovern said. “Over the past fewer years, dissemination and implementation subject has gained tremendous involvement and value. It is present wide recognized that — though determination is inactive large country for caller discoveries — galore highly effectual interventions beryllium for communal conditions but are not wide disposable to the radical who request them.”

In August, the NIH awarded $13 cardinal to money the Center for Dissemination and Implementation, which brings unneurotic a nationalist squad of experts to pb 3 probe projects to mitigate the U.S. opioid and stimulant epidemic. The projects are focused connected reducing overdose deaths successful 3 highly impacted counties successful the United States, implementing psychosocial treatments for stimulant usage disorders successful specialty care, and sustaining integer interventions for substance usage problems successful superior care.

This assistance volition assistance “advance the science, mentor and bid the adjacent procreation of implementation researchers, and fundamentally amended equitable entree to evidence-based treatments for addiction,” according to the NIH.  

In September, McGovern and his squad received different assistance from the NIH: $13.6 cardinal to enactment the NIH Research Adoption Support Center. This halfway focuses connected warring the nation’s opioid and stimulant (methamphetamine and cocaine) epidemics by translating probe findings into regular objective signifier settings.

These caller centers adhd important caller NIH resources to McGovern’s team, which had antecedently received $3 cardinal to enactment the translation of evidence-based intelligence wellness prevention and attraction services successful the U.S. nationalist wellness attraction system, and a $2.5 cardinal NIH-funded survey to bring addiction medications to standard successful a statewide strategy of superior and specialty attraction clinics.

“The spread successful entree to proven treatments is amplified for definite groups of people, specified arsenic radical and taste minorities, and those surviving successful under-resourced communities, municipality oregon rural,” McGovern said. “D&I subject holds the cardinal to adjacent the gaps successful entree to equitable attraction and prime care. I americium tremendously fortunate to beryllium joined by a squad of colleagues from institutions, wellness attraction organizations and communities crossed the U.S. who are arsenic passionate astir utilizing D&I subject to lick these entree problems.”

McGovern is besides a co-chief of the Stanford Medicine Division of Public Mental Health and Population Sciences, manager of implementation probe for the Department of Psychiatry, and past aesculapian manager of integrated behavioral wellness successful the Division of Primary Care and Population Health.