Biography

Rosemary Meza, PhD, MS, is a clinical psychologist and implementation scientist focused on reducing the gap in access to quality mental health services in community-based settings. Her work centers on developing new solutions or optimizing existing solutions to improve the quality of mental health services. Within this work, Dr. Meza emphasizes community engagement, practical solutions, and sustainability.

At Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, Dr. Meza is a collaborative researcher on 2 P50 center grants that aim to advance methods to identify barriers and facilitators of implementation success, match strategies to address those barriers, and optimize strategies to improve implementation of health innovations.  These studies aim to advance the use of evidence-based innovation in cancer care and youth mental health. Dr. Meza is also leading a pilot study to advance knowledge of how peer-support interventions work to improve mental health services for youth and to optimize a peer-support intervention to improve cognitive behavioral therapy delivery in the context of Medicaid-funded youth mental health services in Washington state.

Dr. Meza completed her pre-doctoral and post-doctoral training at the University of Washington. Her work centered on optimizing leadership and supervision to improve the delivery of mental health services for youth in Washington state. Supported by a National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) diversity supplement, she leveraged participatory methods to engage stakeholders in identifying practical solutions to address barriers to implementing a trauma-focused treatment in schools in Western Kenya. Dr. Meza also completed her clinical internship at Seattle Children’s Hospital and specializes in the treatment of child and adolescent anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and parent training to address a variety of youth behavioral challenges.