Dr. Brian Ahmedani received his Ph.D. and MSW degrees from Michigan State University. He is a fully licensed clinical and macro masters-level social worker in the State of Michigan. Dr. Ahmedani also completed a NIH/NIDA-funded fellowship program in Drug Dependence Epidemiology. He joined the Center for Health Policy and Health Services Research at Henry Ford Health System (Henry Ford Health) in 2010 and was appointed Director of the Center in September of 2018.

Dr. Ahmedani was appointed to Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s Suicide Prevention Commission from April 3, 2020 to April 2, 2024. The Commission works with state departments and agencies and nonprofit organizations to research the causes and possible underlying factors of suicide in Michigan.

Currently, he is the Henry Ford Health Site-PI for the NIMH-funded Mental Health Research Network and the Health Systems Node of the NIDA Clinical Trials Network. He is PI/Co-PI for two large multi-site studies on suicide prevention – the first investigating healthcare use patterns before suicide and the second evaluating implementation of the Zero Suicide Model across health systems. He is also Co-PI for the Trans-America Consortium of the NIH All of Us Research Program and serves as Co-I on several other projects.