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Robin Peth-Pierce is the CEO and founder of Public Health Communications Consulting (PHCC), LLC.
For over two decades, Ms. Peth-Pierce has provided comprehensive science writing and intensive research support to research teams to accelerate the speed of scientific discovery. Her master’s-level coursework in public policy at The Ohio State University, and her two-year Presidential Management Fellowship at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) provided training and hands-on experience in all aspects of scientific research administration at the nation’s largest biomedical research enterprise, including public affairs, legislation and policy, grants, contracting, budget and community engagement. For over two decades, her work has focused on supporting academic researchers in federal agencies, non-profit organizations, and in university-based research settings to obtain federal and philanthropic funding to build a better science in children’s mental health services research, including improving the implementation and dissemination of evidence-based practices in child-serving state and local human services systems. She has also worked collaboratively with university-based research teams to translate their research findings to parents, clinical providers, and policymakers, with the goal of improving mental health outcomes for children and their families.
Ms. Peth-Pierce was the Communications Director of a National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)-funded ALACRITY Center (Advanced Laboratories for Accelerating the Reach and Impact of Treatments for Youth and Adults with Mental Illness (ALACRITY), called IDEAS (P50MH11366201; $6.8 million) at New York University. She also served as the Communications Director for the IDEAS Center predecessors, also NIMH-funded centers (Advanced Center, P50MH113662; Developing Center, P20MH078178; Principal Investigators Kimberly Hoagwood, PhD, Professor, New York University (NYU), Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (DCAP) and Mary McKay, PhD, Dean, Brown School of Social Work, Washington University). In this communications role, she was been responsible for the Center’s internal and external communications products, has served as a writer and senior editor on multiple NIH and private foundation grant applications (totaling $35 million over two decades), editing and/or co-authoring peer-reviewed journal article submissions, website content development, and the development of both internal and external Center newsletters. She has collaborated with Center PIs Hoagwood and McKay and Co-investigators Serene Olin, PhD (Assistant Vice President, National Committee for Quality Assurance, and Sarah Horwitz, PhD (Professor, NYU, DCAP) and other center colleagues over the last two decades on a variety of science writing projects, including the development of clinical trial materials (e.g. recruitment, manuals) for several large NIMH or New York University funded interventions (e.g. STRONG MOM, Family-to-Family, The ROSE Project, Reining in Anxiety), which have tested innovative ways to improve the outcomes of youth with mental health disorders
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