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Rahn Kennedy Bailey

Advisor at SAMHSA

On July 1, 2019, Dr. Rahn Kennedy Bailey, M.D. was appointed Chief Medical Officer of Kedren Community Health Systems Inc. Additionally, Dr. Bailey has been appointed to Assistant Dean of Clinical Education at Charles R. Drew University. He has years of experience serving communities in need. By delivering outstanding clinical care and excellence in education, he seeks to advance his mission of lessening healthcare disparities.

Dr. Bailey has held a multitude of leadership roles academically and professionally and is the current Chairman of the NMA Cobb Institute Research Foundation and the 2019 M/UR Trustee Elect of the American Psychiatry Association.

Up until 2018, he was chair and professor at the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine Wake Forest School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, NC. He is a forensic psychiatrist and has written extensively on violence prevention, sexual violence, and gun violence. He wrote a book on gun violence.


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SAMHSA

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The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Adminstration (SAMHSA) is the agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that leads public health efforts to advance the behavioral health of the nation. Charged with reducing the impact of substance abuse and mental illnesses of America's communities, SAMHSA has made significant strides throughout its 22-year history and serves as a national and global leader in the field of behavioral health care. SAMHSA provides leadership and devotes its resources, including programs, policies, information and data, contracts and grants, to help the United States act on the knowledge that behavioral health is essential to health, prevention works, treatment is effective, and people recover from mental and substance use disorders.