Byron Powell , PhD, MSW

Byron Powell is an Assistant Professor at the Brown School and School of Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis where he serves as Co-Director of the Center for Mental Health Services Research. He aims to improve the quality of behavioral health services by identifying barriers and facilitators to implementing evidence-based practices; designing, tailoring, and assessing the effectiveness of implementation strategies; and advancing implementation research methods. Byron is President of the Society for Implementation Research Collaboration, and he is on the editorial boards of Implementation Science and Implementation Research and Practice. In addition to serving as a core faculty member for HIGH-IRI, he is on the core faculty of the Implementation Research Institute (IRI), Training Institute for Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (TIDIRH)-Australia; and TIDIRH-Ireland.