Paul Lanier

Paul Lanier

Paul Lanier, MSW, PhD is a Professor in the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the Associate Director of the Jordan Institute for Families and a Director for Behavioral Health Services and Systems Research at the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services research. Dr. Lanier received his doctoral degree from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis and was a fellow with the national Doris Duke Fellowship for the Promotion of Child Well-Being. His research focuses on developing, evaluating, and scaling-up evidence-based prevention programs and policies in child welfare, mental health, and early childhood systems.