Nathaniel Z Counts, J.D., is senior vice president of behavioral health innovation for Mental Health America (MHA) and clinical assistant professor in the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He also currently serves as the senior fellow in behavioral health policy at the Commonwealth Fund. At MHA, Counts leads policy research and advocacy centered around addressing social and economic determinants of behavioral health, prevention and population health strategies, and the economics of investing to improve behavioral health. He received his J.D. from Harvard Law School, where he was a Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy Student Fellow, and his B.A. in biology from Johns Hopkins University.