Dr. Carrie Brown is the Chief Medical Officer for Behavioral Health & IDD (Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities) for the NC Department of Health and Human Services.

A graduate of Princeton University, she received her medical degree from Duke University’s School of Medicine, a Master’s in Public Health from the the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health and trained in psychiatry at Duke University Hospital.

She has experience within the North Carolina state psychiatric hospital and prison systems and with various evidence-based community treatment models, such as Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) and integrated behavioral health/primary care programs.

She has published health services research on various topics, such as de-escalating aggressive behavior and quality measures in serious mental illness. She is an associate professor of psychiatry at UNC, a consulting assistant professor of psychiatry at Duke, and a research fellow with the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research at UNC.