Michael Lindsey
Michael A. Lindsey, PhD, MSW, MPH is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Work, and is a faculty affiliate with the Center for School Mental Health. Michael completed a his PhD (Social Work) and MPH at the University of Pittsburgh, his MSW at Howard University, and earned a B.A. (Sociology) from Morehouse College. Michael also completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University. Michael’s work examines the prohibitive factors that lead to unmet mental health need among vulnerable youth with serious psychiatric illnesses. He is particularly interested in the processes underlying how the social networks (e.g. family, friends) of ethnic minority youth facilitate or deter their mental health service use, and has previously received NIMH funding to examine the social network influences on perceptual and actual barriers to mental health care among African American adolescent males with depression. Michael’s current NIH-funded work involves the development and testing of a treatment engagement intervention targeting depressed adolescents in school-based treatment.
