Dr. Katie McCormick is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with a dual appointment at the Addiction Research Institute and the Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research in the College of Natural Sciences. Dr. McCormick is a proud first-generation college graduate who earned her BSW from Baylor University (2017), her MSW from the University of Houston (2018), and her Ph.D. in Social Work from UT Austin (2024).
Dr. McCormick is passionate about leveraging community-engaged research methods and translational science to improve the occupational well-being of the community-based behavioral health workforce to ultimately strengthen the broader system of care for people who use drugs and people living with HIV. Her program of research focuses on three primary lines of inquiry: 1) identifying gaps in harm reduction service implementation; 2) understanding occupational stressors and conditions of the substance use peer and harm reduction workforce; and 3) applying this knowledge to adapt and test interventions to improve occupational outcomes for workers with lived experience.
Professional Interests
Harm reduction, implementation science, community-based participatory research, multi-level interventions.