Mandy Allison is a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. She is a pediatrician and health services researcher with 16 years of mentorship experience with medical students, residents, research fellows, and early career faculty as well as research services professionals. She was a Co-Director for the Primary Care Research Fellowship at ACCORDS from 2012 through 2019 and has conducted T3/T4 research since 2004 as a co-investigator or principal investigator on 23 grants funded by foundations, the CDC, AHRQ, and NIH. In December 2023 she became the Director of the Prevention Research Center (PRC; Prevention Research Center for Family & Child Health).  The PRC team conducts rigorous, mixed-methods research with a focus on intervention early in the life cycle to inform policy and practice for promoting the health of children, families, and their communities.  As PRC Co-Director and Director, her research as Principal Investigator includes a National Institute of Nursing Research-funded R01 to investigate the effectiveness of nurse home-visiting for women with previous live births and a National Heart Lung Blood Institute-funded cooperative agreement (UG3/UH3) to investigate the effectiveness of home-visiting to promote maternal and child cardiovascular health.  Her additional research with the PRC as a PI or co-investigator includes:  a mixed-methods formative study of Nurse Family Partnership (NFP) for women with previous live births, a qualitative study of health care experiences of mothers with a history of substance use disorder, a mixed methods study about collaboration and system integration of NFP with other community providers in achieving positive maternal-child health outcomes, and a quasi-experimental study of the effectiveness of NFP for multiparous women using health plan data. She has experience leading multi-disciplinary study teams, working with community partners, designing pragmatic trials, and conducting mixed-methods research.