Kathleen West, Dr.P.H.

Kathleen
West

Senior Program Director, CTTAC

Kathleen West, Dr.P.H., is a senior program director for Advocates for Human Potential (AHP) with more than 30 years of experience in the areas of behavioral health (BH), substance use disorders (SUD), military and veterans, treatment courts, intergenerational trauma, epigenetics, gender-appropriate services, disaster and emergency preparedness, and medication-assisted treatment (MAT). She is currently the senior manager for the Small Business and Innovation Research (SBIR) and international portfolios in AHP’s federal strategies and business development. She also served as the project director for AHP’s Behavioral Health Workforce Development (BHWD) initiative with the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS), helping to expand access to equitable behavioral health care for underserved populations across the state. Dr. West also served as the project director for the California State Opioid Response (SOR) II Hub and Spoke System (H&SS) project working with the state’s Narcotic Treatment Programs and buprenorphine prescribers to help enhance services and expand MAT access in California. She also served as the co-director for TTA for the Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse Program (COSSAP), funded through the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), to support COSSAP grantees as well as other programs throughout the United States interested in expanding MAT to jail populations and community correctional staff and reentry programming. She also served as AHP’s project director for the Narcotic Treatment Program Resource Expansion, Access and Collaboration for Health (NTP REACH) project to support California NTPs to expand MAT accessibility especially in the context of the Covid-19 epidemic. Dr. West received her Dr.P.H. in population and family health, epidemiology, and health policy from the University of California, Los Angeles.