Alene Kennedy-Hendricks is Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management, with a joint appointment in the Department of Mental Health, at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She also serves as Director of Research at the Johns Hopkins Center for Mental Health and Addiction Policy. Trained as a health policy and health services research, Dr. Kennedy-Hendricks' research focuses on understanding how health and social policies affect populations with substance use and mental health conditions. Dr. Kennedy-Hendricks' research leverages data linkages across service sectors to inform policy solutions to the challenges facing populations interacting with multiple systems, including health care payors and providers, social welfare programs such as housing assistance, and the child welfare and criminal legal systems.

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