
Robert Bohler
Robert Bohler, MPH, MA is a PhD candidate and NIAAA pre-doctoral trainee studying behavioral health policy. He recently served as a Rappaport Policy Fellow through the Harvard Kennedy School of Government at the Massachusetts State House, and as the lead researcher for a report and community forum held by the Massachusetts Health Policy Forum on the impact of opioids on rural and small communities in Western Massachusetts. Mr. Bohler is currently working on several research projects at Heller, including payment and policy tracking projects that are part of the HEALing Communities Study and the Brandeis Opioid Resource Connector, a website that highlights innovative community-based interventions to address the opioid crisis. Before coming to Brandeis, Mr. Bohler received an MPH with an emphasis in Epidemiology from the Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health at Georgia Southern University and received an AB in Economics from the University of Georgia. He worked in collegiate recovery and community-based efforts to address substance use disorder (SUD), serving as a grant writer for a proposal to establish a recovery community organization in his community. He has published on the SUD continuum of care and recovery science and his research interests are in opioid policy, medications for opioid use disorder, recovery trajectories, financing and delivery of SUD treatment, and developing effective SUD treatment systems. Mr. Bohler is also a consultant for the Recovery Research Institute at MGH/Harvard Medical School and is actively involved in the Massachusetts Organization for Addiction Recovery (MOAR).

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Adam Vose-O'Neal
Adam Vose-O'Neal is a PhD candidate in the Behavioral Health concentration. For the last several years, licensed clinical social worker Adam Vose-O’Neal has worked in a clinical practice in Providence, R.I. where he specializes in treating clients with addictions. Now, Vose-O’Neal is enrolled in the Heller PhD program with a concentration in behavioral health, and is a National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) Fellow. He continues to treat clients in Providence, and hopes to maintain a clinical practice while pursuing a research career. For his dissertation research, he plans to pursue deeper questions of addiction, sobriety and social networks informed by his experience as a clinician.
“Something that’s come up in my practice is seeing how people get sober. One interesting thing is that they don’t always do it through conventional treatment. I’ve seen clients that disconnect or connect with people in their lives—change jobs, move, start a new relationship, get out of a relationship—and it’s had an impact on their path not just to sobriety, but sustained sobriety. That’s interesting to me. Not just how people get sober, but stay sober.”