Alyssa J. Mansfield is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management in the Gillings School of Global Public Health at UNC-Chapel Hill, and a research fellow at the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research.

Her clinical and research experience has focused primarily on the psychological and behavioral aspects associated with health and healthcare, including access and utilization, and in work with special populations including adolescents, women, and military and veteran communities. Her expertise in health services includes complex statistical methods, operational analytics, data management and visualization, predictive modeling, program evaluation, and patient-reported outcomes from a broad range of research designs. She teaches graduate-level courses in statistics, operations research, and data visualization.

Dr. Mansfield received her PhD in Epidemiology, her MHA in Health Policy and Management, and her MPH in Health Behavior and Health Education, all from UNC-Chapel Hill’s Gillings School of Global Public Health. Prior to academia, she worked as an epidemiologist and researcher with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in Honolulu, Hawaii; the U.S. Department of Defense at both Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland and in Landstuhl, Germany; and at RTI International.