Dr. Claire R. McNellan is an Assistant Professor in the Colorado School of Public Health's Department of Health Systems, Management and Policy at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. She studies public child- & family-serving systems, child maltreatment epidemiology, and the role of social policy in promoting maternal & child health. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Social Work. In 2017, she completed an MPH at the University of Washington concurrently with a three-year public health and data science fellowship at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. She attended Colorado College and graduated with distinction in Neuroscience.