Rebecca Hutcheson is a public health program manager and doctoral student studying Health Services Research at the University of Washington. She started her career as a social worker in inpatient psychiatric, county hospital, and community mental health settings before moving into public health program management where she has spent almost twenty years working in and with local and state HIV prevention and care programs. She is currently working with the Public Health - Seattle & King County HIV/STD program to develop community and cross-systems partnerships to better address the needs of persons with HIV who are living homeless in Seattle while working on a dissertation proposal focused on measurement of availability of mental health care for people insured through Medicaid. She obtained a Master of Social Work degree from the University of Washington and a Bachelor of Social Work degree from the University of Texas at Austin.