Researchers/Faculty

Expertise: Organization and financing of alcohol, drug and mental health services; quality and effectiveness of behavioral health treatment

Expertise: Health services research, with a focus on substance use disorders and other behavioral health

Expertise: Health services research, utilization and diagnoses associated with military health care, public health policy, survey analysis, traumatic brain injury, co-occurring conditions, and health policy

Expertise: Health services research and community-based evaluation with a focus on behavioral health

Expertise: Qualitative research, prescription monitoring programs, addiction and behavioral health

Expertise: Qualitative research, behavioral health treatment systems, evaluation research, addiction services research, faith-based programs

Expertise: Behavioral health and social policy; substance use disorders and mental health prevention and treatment for minority populations; the impact of criminal justice involvement and behavioral health outcomes for marginalized adult and adolescent populations

Expertise: Managed care; health care quality; substance use disorder treatment services; insurance reform; performance measurement; healthcare datasets, survey data

Expertise: Health economics, managed care, economics of mental health and substance use disorders, prescription drug utilization

Expertise: Evaluating substance use disorders, violence, HIV prevention programs; evaluating initiatives for safer prescribing of controlled substances; Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMP)

Expertise: Prescription opioids and the heroin crisis, prescription drug utilization, public health policy 

Expertise: Prescription drug misuse, abuse, and diversion, with a particular emphasis on state prescription drug monitoring programs and the use of their data for public health surveillance and evaluation; program evaluation, especially in substance use disorder prevention and treatment; interagency network analysis; small geographic area measures and models

Expertise: Behavioral health services research; pain management; prescription opioid utilization; longitudinal data analysis; clinical trials; military health system; behavioral health of military members, veterans and families; harm reduction for out-of-treatment individuals; addiction treatment gap; evaluation of system change; adoption of evidence-based practice; web-training; academic detailing

Expertise: Quality of care, performance measures, substance use disorder treatment

Expertise: Parenting and mental illness, psychiatric rehabilitation; web-based interventions

Expertise: Statistical programming and management of large state and national databases, data analysis using statistical methods such as logistic regression, survival analysis, time series and hierarchical linear modeling

Expertise: Program management; qualitative research; prevention, health services, community-based, and training and technical assistance evaluations; topical focus areas include substance use disorders, prescription drug monitoring programs, homelessness, HIV/AIDS, trauma, criminal justice, minority health, and art-based interventions

Expertise: Statistics, quantitative methods, health services research

Expertise: Health services research, with a focus on financing, payment, organization and quality of behavioral health care; use of technology to improve access to and quality of behavioral health care

Expertise: Substance use disorders, prescription drug abuse, controlled substance prescribing

Expertise: Health Policy, health technology transfer, state health reform, prescription drug policy, addiction treatment, Medicare and Medicaid coverage