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Dr. John S. Lyons is the Director of the Center for Innovation in Population Health and Professor of Health Management and Policy.

Dr. Lyons has published more than 200 peer reviewed publications and six books including Redressing the Emperor: improving our children's public mental health system and Communimetrics.

Dr. Lyons has created and supported the use of evidence-based assessments used worldwide including the Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS), Family Advocacy and Support Tool (FAST) and Adult Needs and Strengths Assessment (ANSA).

He actively works at the interface between practice and policy in mental health, child welfare, education, and justice.

Education

  • PhD and MS, Clinical Psychology and Methods and Measurement
    • University of Illinois at Chicago
  • BA, Psychology
    • Butler University

In the News

A Data Talk with Dr. John Lyons on AI

At a recent Community Data Roundtable’s ‘Data Talk,’

NPCS Highlights Progress Toward Integrating Safety Science into Child Welfare Systems

One year after announcing the formation of the National Partnership for Child Safety (NPCS), the partnership

The Center for Innovation in Population Health Explores How People Change Through a New Podcast

The Center for Innovation in Population Health (IPH Center), housed in the University of Kentucky College of Pub