Thomas Byrne is an Associate Professor at the Boston College School of Social Work, and an Investigator with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs National Center for Homelessness among Veterans and Center for Health Optimization and Implementation Research. His research focuses broadly on the causes, consequences and policy solutions to housing insecurity and homelessness. Dr. Byrne’s work primarily employs quantitative and quasi-experimental methods to explore policy-relevant questions, including how housing market dynamics and interventions shape community-level homelessness rates; the effectiveness of prevention-focused approaches; and the interrelationships between housing insecurity, housing assistance and health. Dr. Byrne’s work has been supported by numerous public and private sources and his research has been published in high-impact journals that span a number of fields, including The American Journal of Public Health, Health Affairs, Housing Policy Debate, Journal of General Internal Medicine, Social Service Review and the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. His work has also been featured in local and national media outlets, including The Boston Globe, Time Magazine, NPR and the New York Times. He holds a B.A. in economics from Boston College and an MSW and Ph.D. in Social Welfare from the University of Pennsylvania.