Jill Mattia, Ph.D.

Dr. Jill Mattia is the Director of the Behavioral and Social Sciences (BSS) Research Program in the Behavioral and Social Sciences Research Branch at NIDCR. The BSS Research Program is focused on behavioral health promotion research in health care settings that ultimately impact dental, oral, and craniofacial health and their related indices. Such research includes (but is not limited to):

• Clinical trials, intervention trials, assessment, and evaluation
• Prevention, health promotion, and health maintenance
• Healthcare system and recording system change (e.g., technology, provider network interactions, clinician-driven aspects to behavioral health care, etc.)
• Test construction 
• Readiness for treatment and family collaboration

Prior to joining NIDCR, Dr. Mattia was an Evaluation Officer and a Review Policy Subject Matter Expert in the Office of Extramural Programs (OER) in the NIH Office of the Director. While in OER, she led program evaluations and analysis initiatives regarding award portfolios, policy, and business unit processes receiving competitive evaluations funds. Before joining OER, Dr. Mattia was responsible for scientific strategic planning and policy analysis at the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities as well as trans-NIH plans and reports on minority health and health disparities produced for the White House and Congress.

Dr. Mattia is a Clinical Psychologist with approximately 20 years of experience in clinical research. She received her undergraduate and graduate degrees from The University of Connecticut and the State University of New York at Albany, respectively, and completed a clinical psychology internship at the Eastern Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute at the Medical College of Pennsylvania. She went on to a postdoctoral fellowship at the Brown University Clinical Psychology Training Consortium and stayed at the Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University as an Assistant Professor (Research), Rhode Island Hospital and Butler Hospital.

Dr. Mattia’s extramural research focused on psychiatric disorder assessment; cognitive-behavioral therapy; anxiety, mood, and personality disorders; with three extramural National Institute of Mental Health grants in psychiatric diagnostic assessment. Her background includes expertise in research design and quantitative methods, comparative treatment outcome investigations, diagnostic assessment, psychiatric nosological boundaries, and surveys and test construction.