Allison Metz (she/her/hers)

Allison Metz is Professor of the Practice and Director of Implementation Practice at the School of Social Work and Faculty Fellow at the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute. She is also an Adjunct Professor at the School of Medicine at Trinity College Dublin. Metz is co-chair of the Institute on Implementation Practice and founding director of the Collaborative for Implementation Practice at UNC-Chapel Hill School of Social Work. She previously served as Director of the National Implementation Research Network and Lead of the Implementation Science Division at the FPG Child Development Institute where she also served as a Senior Research Scientist for 13 years.

Metz is a developmental psychologist with expertise in child development and family systems and a commitment to improving child and family outcomes and advancing equity. Metz specializes in the implementation of evidence to achieve social impact for children and families in a range of human service areas, with an emphasis on child welfare and early childhood service contexts.

Her research interests include the role of trust, power and relationships in evidence use, competencies for supporting implementation, and co-creation strategies to support sustainable change. She is particularly interested in the development of a workforce for supporting implementation in public systems.