Dr. McGinty is the Livingston Farrand Professor of Public Health and Chief of the Division of Health Policy and Economics. She conducts research focused on how health policies affect populations with complex health and social needs, including people experiencing mental illness, substance use disorder, chronic pain, and others. Her work is characterized by integrating approaches from the fields of public policy, health economics, and implementation science to understand how policies affect population health. Dr. McGinty has served on multiple prominent advisory groups, including a United National Technical Consultation Panel on Stigma Reduction and Drug Use, a White House Task Force on suicide prevention, and on the Joseph R. Biden Campaign Behavioral Health Committee. Dr. McGinty holds a Master of Science from Columbia University and a doctorate in health and public policy from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Previously, she was a professor and the associate chair for research and practice in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, as well as the director of the Center for Mental Health and Addiction Policy and the ALACRITY Center for Health and Longevity in Mental Illness.