Affiliate Faculty
Alison Athey, PhD
Alison Athey, PhD is a licensed clinical psychologist and a part-time Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She is an Assistant Professor in the Case Western Reserve University Department of Psychological Sciences. Her research focuses on responding to life-threatening behaviors, especially suicide. Dr. Athey has received funding from the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention to study risk for suicide and overdose, suicide postvention, and healthcare access among high-risk groups. She uses a range of methods drawn from psychology, psychiatric epidemiology, and community-based participatory research. In her clinical work, Dr. Athey works with adults who experience serious mental illness, substance misuse, trauma, and bereavement.