Brianna Lombardi, PhD, MSW
Dr. Lombardi holds faculty appointments at UNC as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and as a Research Assistant Professor at the School of Social Work. Dr. Lombardi received her master’s degree in Social Work at the University of Pittsburgh and her PhD in Social Work from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Lombardi’s work seeks to understand how health care practices and health systems deploy teams of providers to address the physical health, behavioral health, and social needs of vulnerable individuals through integrated models of care. She is an expert in social worker roles on integrated health teams and uses innovative methods to study the expanding role of social workers in integrated primary care. Dr. Lombardi’s work has evaluated how rapidly changing payment and practice models impact the health workforce and shift roles in team-based models of care. She has been funded through research and workforce training grants through the Health Resources and Services Administration, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, and the Behavioral Health Workforce Research Center at the University of Michigan.
Latest Work
- Varying Estimates of Social Workers in the United States: Which Data Source to Use? published in Medical Care Research and Review
- When Interruption Becomes Innovation: How Integrated Behavioral Health in Primary Care Adapted During COVID-19 published in Family Medicine
- NC Health Workforce Blog: How does the racial and ethnic diversity of NC health professionals compare to the racial and ethnic diversity of the state population?
- NC Health Workforce Blog: Trends in the racial and ethnic diversity of NC health professions
- Are DEA-waivered buprenorphine prescribers colocated with behavioral health clinicians? published in the American Journal on Addictions
- Co-Location of DEA-Waivered Buprenorphine Prescribers and Behavioral Health Clinicians presented at the Society for Social Work and Research 2024 Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.
Contact
Email: brianna_lombardi@med.unc.edu
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