By Geoffrey Melada | Nov. 18, 2025 The Meadows Institute was proud to serve as the premier policy partner for Behavioral Health Tech 2025, the nation’s largest conference dedicated to expanding access to mental health care through technology, health equity…
December 4, 2025 – Joe Straus, the former Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, published a column in the Dallas Morning News praising the lifelong leadership and public service of Tom Luce, the founding CEO of the Meadows Institute. …
October 29, 2025 – The Meadows Institute’s chief innovation officer, Kacie Kelly, was featured on Behavioral Health Tech’s Expanding Access podcast to discuss the impact of policy on behavioral health innovation. Kelly discusses topics such as AI in mental health,…
A Conversation with Enrique Mata, Executive Director of the Meadows Institute’s Paso del Norte Center By Rebecca Tharp | June 6, 2025 Enrique Mata, executive director of the Paso del Norte Center at the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute In…
This article was originally published in The Texas Tribune on June 2, 2025. In a world that pretends the brain is not part of the body, this bill will put tools in the hands of children, parents and teachers to…
In an op-ed for the Dallas Morning News, Miriam Pearsall, the chief of staff for policy and population health at the Meadows Institute, tells the story of her late cousin, Daryl, who died at the age of 37 after battling pain, substance…
Five Takeaways from the HIMSS Global Health Conference and Exhibition Behavioral Health Pre-Conference Forum By Geoffrey Melada | May 7, 2025 From left: Meadows Institute Chief Policy Officer John Snook, Meadows Institute Chief Innovation Officer Kacie Kelly, Northwestern University psychiatrist…
Artificial Intelligence & Health Care Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most transformative technological advancements of our time. It has become a part of our daily lives, from voice assistants on our smartphones to email classification to recommended ads.…
By Geoffrey Melada | May 23, 2024 From left: Josie Cooper, executive director of the Alliance for Patient Access, Reyna Taylor, senior vice president of public policy at the National Council for Mental Wellbeing, Meadows Institute Vice President of Health…
By Geoffrey Melada | December, 2023 Jason Richie, director of public health, Milken Institute (l), and Meadows Institute’s Vice President of Care Innovation Clare McNutt field questions from the audience at the Advancing Behavioral Health and Policy Summit in Washington,…
A diverse array of behavioral health providers, health plans, investment firms, startups, as well as some of the leading minds in national mental health policy, flocked to Phoenix, Arizona last week for the 2023 Behavioral Health Tech Conference, the largest…
The Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute proudly partnered with Going Digital: Behavioral Health Tech to lead the first ever policy track at the 2023 Behavioral Health Tech Conference, held Nov. 15 – 17 in Phoenix, Arizona. The conference is the largest…
On July 26, the Meadows Institute participated in a kickoff event to introduce a new Multisystemic Therapy (MST) specialized response team supporting at-risk youth in Uvalde, Comal, and Hays Counties. The event, hosted by Hill Country Mental Health and Developmental…
AUSTIN, Texas – Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute President and CEO Andy Keller, PhD, today gave invited testimony before the Texas House Higher Education Committee on the importance of legislation to create the Mental Health and Brain Research Institute of…
Ongoing criticisms that Texas is lagging behind the rest of the country in mental health, and that our leaders haven’t taken it seriously enough and made it a priority, are not only wrong, they are counterproductive. — Andy Keller, PhD When…
This article was originally published by Mindsite News on March 31, 2022. Senate finance committee goes to bat for mental health parity The United States Senate Committee on Finance held its third hearing on mental health yesterday in a bipartisan…
This article was originally published by the Hays Free Press on March 30, 2022. HAYS COUNTY — Hays County is making progress in addressing the area’s mental health needs. On March 22, the Hays County Commissioners Court unanimously approved awarding…
This article was originally published by Behavioral Health Business on March 30, 2022. Members of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee put insurers on notice as they explored ways to better enforce the 13-year-old parity enforcement law meant to be a…
This article was written by Bill Smith and Meadows Institute CEO Andy Keller and was originally published by Dallas Morning News on November 5, 2021. The exacerbation of mental health needs during the COVID-19 pandemic has put even more strain…
AUSTIN – Senator Jane Nelson, whose contributions to better mental health policy, particularly for children, have helped Texas vastly improve its mental health care systems, was named the first recipient of The Tom Luce Award for Mental Health Policy Transformation,…