PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Andrew Busch is the Director of the Behavioral Health Equity Research Group. He holds a PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He completed his clinical internship and post-doctoral fellowship at Brown University. Dr. Busch is a Senior Psychologist in the Hennepin Healthcare Department of Medicine, Division of Behavioral Medicine & Pharmacology and leads the Hennepin Healthcare Tobacco Dependence Clinic. He is also a Professor of Medicine at the University of Minnesota Medical School. Dr. Busch’s current work includes 1) efforts to understanding physical health disparities among those with mental illness, 2) developing interventions that target improvement in both mental and physical health, and 3) developing counseling interventions to improve physical health among our most underserved communities (e.g., individuals who are homeless, incarcerated, or recent immigrants). Dr. Busch is an expert in Behavioral Activation-based counseling and applies this treatment in many of his ongoing studies.

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