Sarah Cusworth Walker, PhD
Director

Sarah Cusworth Walker, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington School of Medicine where she founded the CoLab for Community and Behavioral Health Policy and directs the Evidence-Based Practice Institute, a legislatively-established center focused on promoting effective children's mental health treatment. Dr. Walker’s lab studies methods of integrating knowledge and expertise from science and practice communities to improve population behavioral health. She received a Health Equity award with her colleague, Kevin Williams, in 2019 from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and a Champion for Change award in 2014 from the MacArthur Foundation.