Elizabeth Sinclair Hancq is the director of research for the Treatment Advocacy Center. Elizabeth leads the organization’s Office of Research and Public Affairs (ORPA) and works with Treatment Advocacy Center staff and outside researchers to carry out its research agenda. She has co-authored multiple ORPA reports that have been cited in national media, including the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal, and has generated statistics that have been used as testimony by government officials in the highest levels of office. In addition, Elizabeth has published in prestigious academic journals including JAMA Psychiatry and Nature Communications.
Elizabeth joined ORPA as a part-time research assistant tasked with collecting state hospital bed information for the fourth state survey of psychiatric beds, Going, Going, Gone. Since then, her thoughtfulness, thoroughness and statistical training have made her a critical contributor to ORPA’s work and the mission of the Treatment Advocacy Center.
Elizabeth has previously worked in community health quality improvement and public health program implementation and evaluation in Washington, DC. Prior to her work in public health, Elizabeth served as a research assistant at Georgetown University Lombardi Cancer Center and as a research scientist at McGill University in behavioral neuroscience.
Elizabeth earned her masters of public health degree in prevention and community health from George Washington University in Washington, DC, and her bachelor’s degree in physiology and neuroscience from McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
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