Emily is a collaborative, enthusiastic PhD student at the University of Toronto who specializes in Health Services Research. Emily is passionate about improving access to mental health services, which stems from her many years of work as a researcher, program manager, and social worker in the child and mental health system in the US and Canada.

 

Prior to beginning her PhD, Emily completed both a Master of Social Work and Master of Public Health at New York University. Upon graduating, she was a project manager at the McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Research at New York University for a multi-site study which implemented and evaluated an intervention for low-income children with behavioural difficulties.  Emily then served as the Manager of Implementation and Training at the Child Development Institute, where she oversaw the implementation and scaling of SNAP (Stop Now and Plan), which is a children’s mental health model designed specifically for children at risk of engaging in antisocial activities and/or experiencing disruptive behaviour problems at home, school, and in the community.

 

Emily has experience with providing therapeutic services to adults struggling with mental illness, and is also experienced in quantitative and qualitative research methods; evaluation; and program implementation and scaling. Emily has authored 17 peer-reviewed articles and one book chapter, and has presented her work at several national and international conferences. She has been granted the CIHR Canadian Graduate Scholarship Doctoral Award, the Restracomp PhD Scholarship  (SickKids’ Research Institute's graduate scholarship and fellowship program) and has been appointed as a Leong Scholar at the Leong Centre for Healthy Children.