Julie Angerhofer, PhD, MPH, is passionate about improving care for mental health and substance use in partnership with people who provide and receive health care. She applies qualitative methods to inform what research questions we should be asking and how we should consider answering them. She employs statistical methods to inform implementation evaluations with a goal of optimizing care delivery and improving clinical practice effectiveness and patient outcomes. 

Dr. Angerhofer has received grants from the National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, and Kaiser Permanente Center for Gun Violence Research and Education to research suicide prevention in health care systems via user-centered design and community-based participatory approaches. She also collaborates with multidisciplinary teams on a variety of mental health and addiction research projects, supports care delivery research partnerships, and mentors students at the University of Washington as an affiliate assistant professor.