Mary McKay, PhD

Brown School

Research Topics

  • Children’s mental health
  • Implementation science
  • Policy research
  • Global health
  • HIV prevention and care

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  2017 Office of Neuroscience Research Conference speaker:
“IT TAKES A VILLAGE (of youth, parent advocates, peers, clinicians and services researchers) to create, deliver and test child and family-focused prevention programs and mental health services.”

  Watch Mary McKay’s 2017 ONR Conference talk.


Publications on brain development, law, and policy

Barriers to Service Utilization and Child Mental Health Treatment Attendance Among Poverty-Affected Families

Lindsay A. Bornheimer , Mary C. Acri, Geetha Gopalan, Mary M. McKay. (2018) Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.), 69 (10), pp. 1101-1104.