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Paul Lanier

Associate Professor

Paul Lanier

Contact

Tate-Turner-Kuralt Building

548-K

325 Pittsboro Street

Chapel Hill, NC 27599

planier@email.unc.edu

O: 919-962-6446

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Paul Lanier, MSW, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he teaches courses in social policy and program evaluation. He is also a research fellow at the UNC Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services research and the UNC Injury Prevention Research Center. Dr. Lanier received his doctoral degree from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis. His current research focuses on developing, evaluating, and scaling-up evidence-based prevention programs in child welfare, mental health, and early childhood systems.

Degrees and Licenses

PhD, Washington University in St. Louis
MSW, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
BA, BS, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Research and Professional Interests

Child Well-Being
Children's Mental Health
Health Services Research

Other Projects

NC MIECHV Needs Assessment

Building Bridges Initiative Pilot Evaluation

Recent Publications

Screening children for social determinants of health: A systematic review

Innovative solutions for state Medicaid programs to leverage their data, build their analytic capacity, and create evidence-based policy

A quasi-experimental effectiveness study of Triple P on child maltreatment

Preventing infant maltreatment with predictive analytics: applying ethical principles to evidence-based child welfare policy

A quasi-experimental study of Circle of Parents with fathers of children in Head Start

Courses

SOWO 530

Social Policy

SOWO 810

Program Evaluation