Dan Stallard, PhD

Get Better Together Lead Site Coordinator, Suicide CPR Initiative
Department of Psychiatry
Uniformed Services University

Dan Stallard is a Co-investigator, the Lead Site Coordinator for the Get Better Together RCT Study. He served 36 years in the Marine Corps (enlisted) and Navy (Chaplain) retiring in May 2020. Dan was hired by the Navy as a Civil Servant in February 2021 to be the first Navy Culture and Force Resilience office Resilience Program Manager and to help develop the Navy’s inaugural Integrated Primary Prevention program. In this position Dan was one of DoD’s first credentialed Level 5 Prevention Program Managers. He earned his PhD in Health Psychology in May 2014 with Walden University where he conducted a mixed-method study with combat Marines entitled “Resilient Warrior: Coping Positively with Combat Stress Exposure.”

Dan’s professional interests are transcendental phenomenology, human flourishing, and a wholistic approach to theology-biology-psychology-sociology.