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Lydia A. Chwastiak, MD, MPH (she/her/hers)

Professor
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington

Lydia Chwastiak MD, MPH is a psychiatrist, internist and health services researcher who is Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Global Health at the University of Washington. She received her BS in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale University, her MD degree from the University of Pennsylvania and her MPH from UW, where she completed a health services research fellowship in psychiatry and primary care. Her research over the past 21 years has aimed to improve care and outcomes for people with complex needs in low resource settings, such as low-barrier primary care clinics and community mental health centers in the US, and primary and secondary medical settings in India, Nepal and Cambodia.

Dr. Chwastiak has authored more than 90 peer-reviewed publications and has been the Principal Investigator or a co-Investigator on eight federally funded research projects to develop and implement integrated care interventions for people with chronic medical conditions and serious mental illness who receive care in low resource settings. She is the co-director of the UW Behavioral Research in HIV (BIRCH) Center, an NIMH-funded AIDS Research Center and Director of the WHO Collaborating Center for Mental Health at UW. Her current projects include the implementation of integrated behavioral healthcare interventions for complex patients in low barrier primary care and HIV care settings and the development of a learning collaborative to build capacity for HIV prevention services in King County behavioral health organizations.

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