Megan A O'Grady
Research Area(s) of Interest: Addiction Health Services Research and Implementation Science
Dr. Megan O’Grady is an Associate Professor of Public Health Sciences. She is an applied social psychologist and health services researcher with a focus on implementation science. Her research and evaluation program aims to improve the system of care for and prevention of substance use disorders. Specifically, she is interested in how to better integrate care for behavioral and physical health, how technology can improve implementation of services for substance use disorder, and how to implement system-level quality improvements in substance use prevention and treatment settings. Dr. O’Grady is currently the principal investigator on an NIH-funded study examining the implementation of a text messaging program for unhealthy alcohol use in emergency departments. She is also principal investigator on a seed grant that will identify barriers and facilitators to implementation of long-acting injectable medications for opioid use disorder in Community-Based Behavioral Health Clinics. Dr. O’Grady is a co-investigator on 1 PCORI-funded and 5 NIH-funded studies on substance use services development and implementation. She is also lead evaluator on several SAMHSA- and State-funded projects in partnership with New York State and the State of Connecticut that study implementation of new services for substance use prevention and treatment. In addition, she directs the Center for Prevention Evaluation and Statistics (CPES) at UConn Health and is co-chair of Connecticut’s State Epidemiological Outcomes Workgroup. She received her PhD at Colorado State University and was a post-doctoral fellow in UConn Health’s Alcohol Research Center.
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