PhD, MA
Assistant Professor, Health Policy and Management
UNC-Chapel Hill
Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program
Area of Interest
Meghan C. O’Leary, PhD, MA, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. She is a decision and systems scientist and health services researcher with a particular interest in supporting and evaluating the implementation of cancer prevention and control interventions across implementation phases using mixed-method and systems approaches.
Her methodological skills include facilitating system mapping sessions with patients, clinical and community health professionals, and others to map workflows and care pathways, estimate resource use, and plan for sustainability; conducting health economic evaluations; and designing and evaluating decision support tools. She has applied these methods across a range of interest areas such as the implementation of cancer screening interventions in under-screened populations and lower-resourced settings, use of patient navigation to address barriers to follow-up care after abnormal screening tests, and implementation of remote symptom monitoring to improve care and health-related quality of life in surgical and oncology patients.
Awards and Honors
- Harry T. Phillips Award for Outstanding Teaching by a Doctoral Student, UNC Department of Health Policy and Management, 2022
- Jean G. Yates Outstanding Doctoral Student Award, UNC Department of Health Policy and Management, 2021
- Marci K. Campbell Dissertation Award, UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, 2021
