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Mailing Address
Peabody # 151
230 Appleton Place
Nashville, TN 37203-5721
Direct Phone
770-492-9977
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Ana Maria Brannan
Senior Research Associate
Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, 1996
Ana Maria Brannan, Ph.D., is a Senior Research Associate at the Center for Evaluation and Program Improvement. She has been conducting children's mental health services research since 1989. Dr. Brannan has been particularly interested in the role of the family in children's mental health services. She completed her pre-doctoral training in public policy at Vanderbilt University, followed by a post-doctoral fellowship at Rutgers' Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research. In the last several years, Dr. Brannan has been conducting research on children's mental health and substance abuse services and the family, child, provider, and system factors that influence utilization patterns and outcomes. In particular, she is applying a variety of techniques (e.g., structural equations modeling, linear and logistic regression) to model differences in service use patterns and predictive factors for children served in a variety of service systems including fee-for-service private insurance, traditional Medicaid, clinically case managed continuum of care, and Medicaid managed care.
Vita
Current Project:
Pine Belt System of Care (PBSOC) (10/06 - 9/12) This project is funded through an award to the Mississippi Department of Mental Health by the Center for Mental Health Services of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) under the Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children and Their Families Program. Vanderbilt University will provide the project evaluation. ($300K)
Project Completed:
Family Measurement In Children's Services Research (12/03-11/05) Funded by the National Institute of Mental Health. The purpose of the project is to refine the constructs of family empowerment and caregiver strain and to improve their measurement for use in children's mental health services research. Vanderbilt researchers are collaborating on this project with investigators from Michigan State University, University of South Florida, and Portland State University. ($300k)