Megan Pope has over 15 years of mental health research experience, primarily in the fields of early intervention in psychosis and youth and global mental health. Her work has been largely focused on conducting and coordinating research projects sharing the overarching aims of enhancing the design and delivery of mental health services, improving outcomes among youth with serious mental illnesses, and eliminating unjust disparities in mental health, particularly those caused or perpetuated by the social determinants of mental health.
Megan hails from Quebec, Canada and received a BA (Honours) in Psychology from Bishop’s University in 2008, after which she worked for several years as a research project coordinator at the Prevention and Early Intervention Program for Psychoses in Montreal, Canada. She obtained an MSc in Psychiatry from McGill University in 2016; a three-year research-intensive thesis program for which she was awarded highly competitive provincial and federal fellowships. She has extensive experience designing, conducting, and coordinating clinical mental health research projects, including multi-stakeholder, multi-site, and international research projects, having worked with colleagues across Canada, India, the USA, and the UK. She also has experience with youth mental health service implementation and program evaluation at a national scale in Canada. Megan has expertise in qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods research; knowledge synthesis and knowledge translation; and the use of clinical-research interview and rating scales. She has authored/co-authored several articles published in leading peer-reviewed journals and has shared research findings with academic and lay audiences at international and local conferences, with the goal of facilitating the uptake and implementation of research knowledge.