Dr. Susan McLaughlin is a licensed clinical psychologist with more than 20years of leadership experience in health, behavioral health, and social services as a clinician, researcher, and policy administrator. McLaughlin started her career in youth mental health and later served as the Health and Human Services Administrator at DCHS in BHRD where she led multiple initiatives to improve public policy and programmatic outcomes for individuals with mental health and substance use treatment needs in the region.

Since then, McLaughlin served as the founding Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer at HealthierHere, a nonprofit collaborative dedicated to eliminating health disparities in King County through the Accountable Community of Health (ACH). Most recently, she was the Director of the University of Washington Medicine Behavioral Health Institute (BHI) at Harborview Medical Center, focused on addressing the challenges facing Washington’s behavioral health system through clinical innovation, training and workforce development, and research and evaluation. The BHI also serves as a regional resource for advancing behavioral health outcomes and policy to support sustainable system change. Read more.