Dr. Kayla Tormohlen is a senior research associate in the Division of Health Policy and Economics in the Department of Population Health Sciences at Weill Cornell Medicine. Dr. Tormohlen conducts research in the area of substance use and mental health services and policy. Her work focuses on how health policies impact persons with complex health and social needs, and how we can utilize policy levers to address barriers to health service access and utilization.

Dr. Tormohlen received her PhD and MPH in public mental health and substance use epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Prior to joining the division, she was an assistant scientist in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, as well as faculty at the Center for Mental Health and Addiction Policy.