Dr. Byron Powell

Byron is a Professor and Associate Dean for Research at the Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis (WashU), where he co-directs the Center for Mental Health Services Research. He holds secondary appointments in WashU’s Bursky School of Public Health and the School of Medicine, and serves as an Adjunct Professor of Public Health at University College Cork, Ireland.

Byron aims to improve health and social services by advancing implementation science. His scholarship has contributed to the development, specification, tailoring, and evaluation of implementation strategies, as well as methods for studying implementation processes, mechanisms, and outcomes.

Supported primarily by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), he has published more than 200 peer-reviewed articles and other scholarly works. His honors include a Fulbright Specialist Award, WashU’s Provost’s Research Excellence Award, and the Early Career Award from the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Dissemination and Implementation Special Interest Group.

Byron is committed to building capacity in implementation science through teaching, mentorship, and international collaboration. He co-directs the Brown School’s National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)-funded Training Program in Mental Health Services Research and serves as Director of the NIMH-funded Implementation Research Institute. He is a former President of the Society for Implementation Research Collaboration, Co-Editor-in-Chief of Implementation Research and Practice, a member of the editorial board of Implementation Science, and a standing member of the NIH Science of Implementation in Health and Healthcare Study Section.