Current Trainees
Daniel Alohan– PhD Candidate Behavioral, Social, and Health Education Sciences
– SUD-related research interest: Applying intersectionality and the minority stress framework to explore substance use and mental health outcomes, with a particular emphasis on racially and sexually minoritized populations
-Advanced Data Method:
Snigdha Peddireddy
– PhD Candidate Behavioral, Social, and Health Education Sciences
– SUD-related research interest: implementation of federal and state laws that impact the health of PWUD, with a focus on Black, Indigenous, and Latine/-x PWUD
– Advanced Data Method: Machine Learning & large administrative databases
Simone Wien– PhD Candidate Epidemiology
– SUD-related research interest: structural racism, the lived environment, and pregnant and postpartum PWUD patient-provider interactions
– Advanced Data Method: Geospatial Information Systems & large administrative databases
Past Fellows
Caroline Barry– PhD Candidate Behavioral, Social, and Health Education Sciences
– SUD-related research interest: social support and social network normative influence in relation to substance use and mental health among adolescents in the Cherokee Nation
– Advanced Data Method: Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning
Drew Walker– PhD Candidate Behavioral, Social, and Health Education Sciences
– SUD-related research interest: Quality-of-care outcomes for populations frequently prescribed opioids.
– Advanced Data Method: Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing
Erin Rogers– PhD Candidate Epidemiology
– SUD-related research interest: How SUDs influence treatment trajectories for individuals living with HIV
– Advanced Data Method: Machine Learning & Causal Inference
Carla Jones-Harrell – SUD-related research interest: Opioid-related outcomes.
– Advanced Data Method: Geospatial Information Systems
– Completed: Summer 2022
– PhD Behavioral, Social, and Health Education Services
Lauren Bertin
– Clinical Psychology
– SUD-related research interest: Alcohol & cannabis use disorders
– Advanced Data Method: Gene-Environment interactions
– Completed: Summer 2022
Joni Webster– SUD-related research interest: How Black Twitter users Discuss Mental & Emotional Wellbeing in Relation to Non-Medical Drug Use, Death, and Everyday Life
– PhD Sociology – Health