Mandy Allison MAEd, MD, MSPH

Mandy Allison is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. She has taught residents, medical students, and advanced practice provider students and provided clinical care to linguistically, ethnically, and culturally diverse patients since 2004. She has served as a Principal Investigator and Co-Investigator on foundation-funded grants and federal grants from AHRQ, CDC, and NIH in the areas of immunization delivery, school health, and early childhood development. She served as the Co-Director of the Prevention Research Center for Family and Child Health (PRC) with Dr. David Olds, Nurse Family Partnership (NFP) founder, from 2019 through 2023 and became the Director of the PRC in 2024. Her recent and current research includes a formative study of home-visiting for women with previous live births and a qualitative study of health care experiences of mothers with a history of substance use disorder. She was a coinvestigator on a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded project (Dr. Venice Williams, PI) examining the role of collaboration and system integration of home-visiting with other community providers in achieving positive maternal-child health outcomes. Finally, she is currently a multiple principal investigator on two pragmatic trials. One is a trial of Nurse Family Partnership home-visiting for people with previous live births, and the other is a trial of enriching home-visiting to improve maternal and child cardiovascular health.