CFBH Faculty, Research Support and Staff

Oliver Tom Massey, PhD

Associate Professor & CFBH Co-Division Director

ITRE Multiple Principal Investigator & Evaluation Director

Research Interests:

Effective behavioral health services for youth and transition age adults, implementation science and practice, program evaluation, integration and sustainability of evidence-based practices, behavioral health services in schools, academic-community partnerships, service learning

Cathy Sowell, MSW, LCSW

Associate in Research & CFBH Co-Division Director

Research Interests:
Child, adolescent, and family mental health and wellbeing, child welfare and mental health system innovation and implementation, suicide prevention; transition age youth and young adult services; mental and physical health service integration; social justice and service equity

Anna Abella, PhD

Assistant Research Professor

Research Interests:
Mental health services; child welfare systems; parent education; prevention and early intervention services; jail diversion programs; behavioral health equity

Donna Burton, PhD

Research Assistant Professor

ITRE Co-Investigator

Research Interests:
School based mental health services integration; child and adolescent behavioral health

Linda M. Callejas, PhD

Associate Research Professor

Research Interests:
Reducing the burden of inequities in communities that experience social marginalization; parents involved in child welfare systems

Ruby Joseph, MPA

Assistant In Research

Research Interests:
Service implementation of programs that benefit minority populations and communities; issues that affect the mental, educational, and social development of children and youth

Bruce Lubotsky Levin, DrPH, MPH

Associate Professor

ITRE Multiple Principal Investigator & Evaluation Director

Research Interests:
Mental health and substance abuse services delivery; behavioral health policy; mental health informatics; managed behavioral health care; translational research in adolescent behavioral health

Debra Mowery, PhD

Assistant Research Professor, CABH Program Director

Research Interests:
Children and families; behavioral health; system planning; behavior analysis; early childhood education; cultural competence and health disparities; community based research

Jessica Rice, PhD

Assistant Professor of Instruction

Research Interests:
Psychiatric hospitalization among youth; child and adolescent trauma; embedding trauma-informed care treatment practices into mental and behavioral health for young people

Roxann (McNeish) Taormina, PhD, MSw

Assistant Research Professor

Research Interests:
Mental Health and wellbeing among men and boys; child welfare systems change; prevention programs

Amy Vargo, PhD

Assistant Research Professor

Research Interests:
Child welfare systems change; identification of evidence-based and promising practices within child welfare and children’s behavioral health; childhood trauma