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Assistant Professor

Biographical Information

Brianna M. Lombardi, PhD, MSW, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine. She directs the SAMHSA/HRSA funded Behavioral Health Workforce Research Center and she also serves as the Deputy Director for the Carolina Health Workforce Research Center at the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research. She is a Research Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work.

Areas of Interest

Dr. Lombardi’s research focuses on understanding how health systems deploy teams of providers to address the physical health, behavioral health, and social needs of marginalized populations through integrated models of care. She is considered an expert in social worker roles on integrated health care teams and uses innovative methods to study the expanding role of social workers in integrated primary care. Her research explores how teams of interprofessional health providers can work together to improve health, identifies the workforce needed to build diverse teams, and evaluates the payment and policy mechanisms to support these changes in health systems.

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