Carlyle Johnson, Ph.D.
Dr. Carlyle Johnson is the Director of Provider Network Strategy and Initiatives at Alliance Health, the agency responsible for managing behavioral health services for Medicaid-funded and uninsured individuals in Cumberland, Durham, Johnston, Mecklenburg, Orange, and Wake counties.
He was born and raised in Raleigh, NC, and attended UNC-Chapel Hill, where he received a bachelor’s degree in psychology, after which he received a Ph.D. in Clinical and Community Psychology from the University of South Carolina. Dr. Johnson has worked in the public behavioral health system since 1984 in South Carolina, Connecticut, and North Carolina, including positions in settings such as hospital emergency departments, state psychiatric hospitals, university clinics, Veterans Administration and prison psychiatric units, and community behavioral health programs. He has spent most of his career in the North Carolina public behavioral health system and has served as a manager of adult mental health programs at Wake County Human Services and Administrator for the Wake County Local Management Entity before its merger with Durham in 2012 to form Alliance Health.
At Alliance, Dr. Johnson is responsible for assessment of network adequacy, development of plans to address service gaps, promotion of evidence-based practices, and implementation of new services to address the opioid crisis. Since 2017, Dr. Johnson has led efforts at Alliance to expand treatment and recovery supports for opioid use disorder, including support for harm reduction, peer engagement services, and evidence-based treatment in community, forensic, hospital, and other settings.
cjohnson@alliancehealthplan.org
919-906-8089
www.alliancehealthplan.org
