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About Morgan Shields

Morgan Shields, M.Sc., M.A., is finishing her Ph.D. in behavioral health services and policy at Brandeis University's Heller School for Social Policy and Management, where she is a National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism T32 fellow. Morgan received her masters in public health from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and B.A. in psychology from Kent State University. She was a Harvard Kennedy School Rappaport Doctoral Public Policy Fellow in 2017, during which she worked at the Massachusetts statehouse on a piece of community mental health legislation, as well as a report on the quality of inpatient psychiatric care in the state. Her research has been published in peer-reviewed outlets such as Health Affairs, Psychiatric Services, and Medical Care Research and Review. Her research on inpatient psychiatry has had demonstrable impact, prompting internal investigations and interventions at the Veteran's Health Administration as well as the implementation of a revised critical incident monitoring system at the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health. Morgan will soon transition (July, 2020) into a NIMH T32 postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania, in the Center for Mental Health (CMH), Department of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine.