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Dr. Briana S. Last


University of Pennsylvania (2022)
 
Dr. Briana Last will be reviewing graduate student applications for the 2024-2025 academic year.

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Contact:

Briana.last@stonybrook.edu 
Office: Psychology B-356
Phone: (631) 632-7845

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Research Interests:

The social determinants of mental health; mental health services and policy research; implementation science; clinical decision-making; mental health workforce development; health equity; mixed methods; and community-based participatory research.

Current Research:  

My academic mission is to improve population-level mental health and to increase the availability of quality mental health services to all who need them. Trained as an implementation scientist and clinical psychologist, my mental health services and policy research is inherently interdisciplinary and uses both qualitative and quantitative methods.

My research straddles three overlapping domains of inquiry:

  1. Examining the social, political, and economic determinants of mental health and mental health service provision
  2. Investigating implementation efforts to improve mental health service access and quality
  3. Understanding and improving the structural and organizational factors that influence clinicians' decision-making.

 

Representative Publications:

Last, B.S. & Wuest, J.W. (2022). Science on Trial: Policy Disputes Over Evidence Based Care for Sexual and Gender Minorities. the Behavior Therapist, 45(8), 285-297.

Last, B.S., Schriger, S.H., Becker-Haimes, E.M., Fernandez-Marcote, S., Dallard, N., Jones, B., Beidas, R.S. (2021). Economic precarity, financial strain, and job-related stress among Philadelphia’s public mental health clinicians. Psychiatric Services, 73(7), 774-786.

Last. B.S., Schriger, S.H., Timon, C.E., Frank, H.E., Buttenheim, A.M., Rudd, B.N., Fernandez-Marcote, S., Comeau, C., Shoyinka, S., & Beidas, R.S. (2021). Using behavioral insights to design implementation strategies in public mental health settings: a qualitative study of clinical decision-making. Implementation Science Communications, 2(1), 1-16.

Last, B.S., Rudd, B.N., Gregor, C.A., Kratz, H.E., Jackson, K., Berkowitz, S., Zinny, A., Cliggitt, L.P., Adams, D.R., Walsh, L.M., & Beidas, R.S. (2020). Sociodemographic characteristics of youth in a trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy effectiveness trial in the city of Philadelphia. Journal of Community Psychology48(4), 1273-1293.

Full publication history available here.