Brandy Farrar

Brandy Farrar, Ph.D., is a managing director in the Health Division at AIR. She has over 20 years of experience identifying evidence-based best practices for designing and implementing policies and programs aimed at improving the quality of access to, and capacity of health and human services. She serves as a subject matter expert in the social and structural determinants of wellbeing, inequality, workforce wellbeing and capacity, and community and stakeholder engagement in policy, programs, and research. She serves as a methodological expert in qualitative, mixed, and evaluation methods. 

Dr. Farrar’s research and technical assistance work is informed by her training as a sociologist specializing in the intersection between individual-level social psychology and system-level structures and processes. Dr. Farrar is an adjunct professor at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health.