Margaret McGladrey, PhD, is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Management and Policy at the University of Kentucky (UK) College of Public Health (CPH) who supports the work of the TCOM Implementation, Development, and Educational Support (TIDES) program, which trains child welfare and behavioral health practitioners on using the Center for Innovation in Population Health’s outcome management tools. Dr. McGladrey specializes in participatory health research, community engagement, and quality improvement in partnership with a wide variety of agencies and practitioners, including local health departments, cooperative extension, county and regional jails, child welfare agencies, treatment courts, and philanthropic, arts, social services, and recovery community nonprofit organizations.
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Research has shown that behavioral health conditions like mental illness and substance use disorders are closely linked with the social determinants of health — the non-medical conditions impacting health and wellbeing in the environments where people live, work and play.