National Jewish Health Welcomes Maggie Britton, PhD, as Clinical Director of Health Initiatives


DENVER - National Jewish Health has welcomed Maggie Britton, PhD, a behavioral health and tobacco treatment expert, to the Department of Health Initiatives, where she will serve as director of Clinical Programs & Quality. In this role, she will support the organization’s nationally recognized tobacco cessation programs, which assist individuals across 26 states in their efforts to quit tobacco and nicotine. Her work will include strengthening coach training and quality assurance processes, as well as ensuring care delivery aligns with best practices.

Before joining National Jewish Health, Dr. Britton served as an assistant professor at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and the University of Houston. From these roles, Dr. Britton brings extensive experience in developing, implementing and evaluating tobacco-free workplace initiatives that strengthened tobacco dependence care across a wide range of health care and community settings in Texas, through coordinated policy, education and clinical initiatives.

Dr. Britton’s experience in tobacco cessation has also given her a deep appreciation for the vital role of quitlines in providing accessible, life-changing support and in reducing disparities in tobacco treatment. She is excited to now contribute from an operational perspective, helping strengthen and expand this impact.

Dr. Britton earned her Doctor of Philosophy in social and health psychology, with a minor in quantitative methods, from the University of Houston. During her doctoral training, Dr. Britton was awarded a National Institutes of Health National Research Service Award for her dissertation work and completed a competitive health disparities fellowship at MD Anderson Cancer Center. She also earned a Master of Arts in psychology from the University of Houston and a Bachelor of arts in Psychology, with a minor in Spanish, from Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan.

Her areas of expertise include tobacco dependence treatment, behavioral health systems, health equity, community-based program delivery and mixed-methods research.
 

National Jewish Health is the leading respiratory hospital in the nation delivering excellence in multispecialty care and world class research. Founded in 1899 as a nonprofit hospital, National Jewish Health today is the only facility in the world dedicated exclusively to groundbreaking medical research and treatment of children and adults with respiratory, cardiac, immune and related disorders. Patients and families come to National Jewish Health from around the world to receive cutting-edge, comprehensive, coordinated care. To learn more, visit njhealth.org or the media resources page.


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