Associate Vice President for Student Affairs
Director, Counseling and Mental Health Center
Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Educational Psychology
College of Education
Dr. Chris Brownson is an Associate Vice President for Student Affairs and Director of the Counseling and Mental Health Center at the University of Texas at Austin. His portfolio also includes University Health Services and the Center for Students in Recovery. Dr. Brownson was appointed as a Chancellor’s Health Fellow at the University of Texas System in 2014, and he currently leads a $5 million project implementing after hours crisis counseling in all 14 academic and health institutions in the UT System as well as bystander intervention, alcohol prevention and early intervention, and collegiate recovery centers at the 8 academic institutions in the UT System. Currently, Dr. Brownson is leading a longitudinal study with 18 other institutions of higher education looking at the intersection of psychological factors and academic success.
Dr. Brownson’s research includes college student suicide and suicide prevention, collaborative care models of behavioral health in primary care, the intersection of mental health and academic success, gender, race, and ethnicity in college student mental health, the roles of professional organizations within college mental health, collegiate recovery, and fatherhood.
View his coffee talk here.