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	Member Name			Department	School				Research Interests/Topics	IAS Research Groups
Headshot	Member Name	Degree	Title	Department	School	Email	Career Level	Bio	Research Interests/Topics	IAS Research Groups	IAS Title	USC Profile	NIH Profile
	Adam Matthew Leventhal, PhD	PhD	Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences, Director of IAS	PPHS	Keck School of Medicine	adam.leventhal@usc.edu	Faculty	Adam Leventhal, Ph.D., Professor of Preventive Medicine and Psychology at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine and USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, is an addiction psychologist and public health scientist. Dr. Leventhal is the Founding Director of the USC Health, Emotion, & Addiction Laboratory (USC-HEAL; heal.usc.edu), a group of six faculty investigators and 30 staff and trainees who study the causes, consequences, treatment, and prevention of addiction and mental illness across the lifespan. Having been awarded more than $40M in grant funding from the NIH and other agencies, USC-HEAL's current areas of focus are: (1) adolescent and young adult use of tobacco, cannabis, and opioids; (2) the co-occurrence of addiction and mental illness; (3) the development of new medications to promote smoking cessation; (4) science to inform public policies for regulating tobacco and other consumer products; and (5) cancer and cardiovascular disease prevention. Dr. Leventhal is also the Founding Director of the USC Institute for Addiction Science (USC-IAS; ias.usc.edu), a university-wide initiative that supports transdisciplinary science and education for a network of 40+ faculty addiction experts across 5 schools and colleges at USC.	Opioids; Policy; Tobacco; Psychiatric Comorbidity; Cannabis		IAS Director	https://keck.usc.edu/faculty-search/adam-matthew-leventhal/
	Adrian Huerta, PhD	PhD	Assistant Professor of Education	Education	Rossier School of Education	ahhuerta@rossier.usc.edu	Faculty	Adrian H. Huerta, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of education in the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California. His research focuses on boys and young men of color, college access and equity, and gang-associated populations. His research has been funded by the U.S. Department of Education, ECMC Foundation, Institute for Research on Poverty/JPB Foundation, and totals over $1.6 million dollars. His scholarship appears in Community College Review, Journal of College Student Development, Journal of the First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, Teachers College Record, The Urban Review, Urban Education, and other practitioner and scholarly journals.	Boys and young men of color, college access and equity, and gang-associated youth	PPHE	IAS Faculty Member	https://pullias.usc.edu/people/adrian-huerta/
	Alice Cepeda, PhD	PhD	Associate Professor of Social Work	Adult Mental Health and Wellness	Dworak-Peck School of Social Work	alicecep@usc.edu	Faculty	Dr. Alice Cepeda serves on the IAS Steering Committee & Co-Leader of the IAS Community Engagement & Dissemination research group/committee alongside IAS Member, Dr. Ricky Bluthenthal. IAS acknowledges that addiction service delivery is a complex phenomenon that requires scientific rigor to support evidence-based activities along the entire spectrum of service from prevention to sustaining recovery. The Institute is committed to counteracting racism and health equity through concerted community engagement efforts led by this group. Dr. Cepeda is an associate professor at the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work. She was previously in the Department of Sociology and the Associate Director of the Center for Drug and Social Policy Research at the University of Houston. Dr. Cepeda received her doctoral degree from the City University of New York, Graduate Center.	Social epidemiology of drug use, Mexican-Americans, Health Disparities	CED	IAS Community Engagement and Dissemination Co-Lead	https://dworakpeck.usc.edu/academics/faculty-directory/alice-cepeda
	Amanda Burkhardt, PhD	PhD	Assistant Professor of Clinical Pharmacy	Clinical Pharmacy	School of Pharmacy	aburkhar@usc.edu	Faculty	Dr. Amanda Burkhardt is an IAS faculty member. She Co-Director of the Rising STARS program alongside IAS Members Dr. Terry Church & Dr. Daryl Davies. This program is a cooperative science education initiative between USC and Francisco Bravo Medical Magnet High School in East Los Angeles. Dr. Burkhardt is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Pharmacy in the Titus Family Department of Clinical Pharmacy at USC Mann School of Pharmacy. At USC Mann, Dr. Burkhardt launched Trojan CALM, a student-led research project that measures stress in the university population through salivary cortisol testing and stress assessment surveys. She holds a BS in Microbiology from the University of California, San Diego, and a PhD in Immunology from the University of California, Irvine. Before joining USC, Dr. Burkhardt was an adjunct assistant professor at UC Irvine’s School of Medicine and a lecturer in the Department of Biological Sciences at California State University, Long Beach. Her research has focused on developing novel vaccines and adjuvants, discovering cytokines and chemokines, and fine-tuning immune responses using Toll-like receptor and nanoparticle-based adjuvants. She has extensive experience lecturing and mentoring doctoral, undergraduate, and medical students, developing engaging course curricula, and authoring multiple patents and journal articles.	Chemokines, Vaccine Immunology, Cytokines, Vaccines	Policy, PPHE	IAS Faculty Member	https://pharmacyschool.usc.edu/faculty/amanda-burkhardt-phd/
	Andrea Kovacs, MD	MD	Professor of Pediatrics and Pathology/Chief of Pediatric Infectious Diseases	Pediatrics, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and PPHS	Keck School of Medicine	akovacs@usc.edu	Faculty	Her work has focused on the social epidemiology of drug use and the related health risk behaviors that disproportionately affect urban Mexican-origin minority populations, including violence, HIV/STI infection risks and mental health conditions. Dr. Cepeda’s research has also highlighted the unique gendered experiences encountered by females within this cultural context. Her research publications have explored the complex of social determinants, including familial, neighborhood and socio-ecological factors that contribute to drug use and negative social and health outcomes among vulnerable minority populations.	Pediatric infectious diseases, pathogenesis of HIV and HCV contagious women	Policy, PPHE	IAS Faculty Member	https://keck.usc.edu/faculty-search/andrea-az-kovacs/
	Antoine Bechara, PhD	PhD	Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience	Psychology	Dornsife College of Letters/Arts/Sciences	bechara@usc.edu	Faculty	Antoine Bechara is an American neuroscientist, academic and researcher. He is currently a professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Southern California. Bechara studied at the University of Toronto and earned his Doctoral degree in 1991. He then completed his Fellowship in Behavioral Neurology from the University of Iowa in 1996. Following his Postdoctoral fellowship, Bechara held appointment as an assistant professor of neurology at the University of Iowa College of Medicine in 1997, and was promoted to associate professor of Neurology in 2004. In 2005, he joined the University of Southern California as an associate professor of Psychology and Neuroscience and became Professor in 2008. Bechara is the Editor of Frontiers in Psychology: Psychopathology Section and also served on the editorial board of several scientific journals, including Neuropsychology, Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economics, and Journal of Behavioral Decision Making. Bechara has published over 400 papers, has been cited over 79,000 times, and has a Google Scholar H-index of 113. His work is focused on understanding the neural processes underlying how we make decisions and choices. He has co-edited a book entitled, Obesity Prevention: The Role of Brain and Society on Individual Behavior.	Neuroscience - the neural processes underlying how we make decisions and choices, gambling, food addiction, social media addiction, substance use disorders	Biopsych	IAS Faculty Member	https://dornsife.usc.edu/cf/psyc/psyc_faculty_display.cfm?person_id=1008327
	Artur Galimov (2024 NEW), PhD	PhD	Assistant Professor of Clinical	PPHS	Keck School of Medicine	galimov@usc.edu	Faculty	Dr. Galimov is a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences at the Keck School of Medicine at USC. He is a clinical physician and public health scientist by training with a focus on public health policy and addictions broadly defined. He possesses extensive expertise in qualitative data analysis.	Health policy, addictions, implementation science, scoial media, AI data analysis, diet and physical activity	PPHE, CED, Policy	IAS Faculty Member
	Ashraf Elmashat, MD	MD	Clinical Professor of Psychiatry	Psychiatry and The Behavioral Sciences	Keck School of Medicine	ashraf.elmashat@med.usc.edu	Faculty		Schizophrenia, Treatment-resistant mood disorders, Application of non-psychopharmacological treatment approaches using Vagus Nerve Stimulation (VNS) and Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS)	PPHE	IAS Faculty Member	https://keck.usc.edu/faculty-search/ashraf-elmashat/
	Avelardo Valdez, PhD	PhD	Professor of Practice, Policy, Research and Advocacy for the Latino Population	Adult Mental Health and Wellness	Dworak-Peck School of Social Work	avelardv@usc.edu	Faculty	Avelardo Valdez is currently the Cleofas and Victor Ramirez Professor of Practice, Policy, Research and Advocacy for the Latino Population at the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work. He was previously a professor at the Graduate College of Social Work at the University of Houston and director of the Center for Drug & Social Policy Research. He obtained his Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. A primary focus of his research has been on the relationship between substance abuse and violence and health issues among high-risk groups. His research projects have been among “hidden populations” such as youth and prison gang members, heroin users, sex workers, aging drug users, and crack users. He is a nationally and internationally recognized scholar with an extensive publication record in his field of research. His most recent book is titled Mexican American Girls and Gang Violence: Beyond Risk.	Substance Abuse, Social development/policy, HIV/AIDS, Behavioral Health	PPHE	IAS Faculty Member	https://dworakpeck.usc.edu/academics/faculty-directory/avelardo-valdez
	Barbara Turner, MD, PhD	MD, PhD	Clinical Professor of Medicine	Medicine (General Internist)	Keck School of Medicine	turnerb@usc.edu	Faculty	Barbara Turner, PhD, is a professor of medicine in the Gehr Family Center for Health Systems Science at the University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine. She is a practicing general internist with 35 years of experience in health disparities research and community-partnered research. In 2010, she established the Center for Research to Advance Community Health (ReACH) as a partnership between the University of Texas (UT) Health San Antonio and the UT School of Public Health (UTSPH). ReACH now has 29 Scholars from multiple disciplines and institutions who share the mission of improving health outcomes through community-oriented research focusing on the low-income, Hispanic residents of South Texas. Her research has focused on health disparities through administrative database studies, randomized trials, and implementation & dissemination projects. The subject areas for her health disparities research are diverse including preventive care, chronic disease management, community-engagement, and implementation of evidence-based models of care. Recently, Dr. Turner has been principal investigator (PI) on four federal- and state-funded projects to implement HCV screening and management in diverse primary care practices. She has over 175 peer-reviewed publications and editorials from research funded by the NIH, the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (AHRQ), Robert Wood Johnson (RWJ) Foundation, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). She is the lead author on a Handbook for Community Engagement of Underserved Populations completed as part of a PCORI grant which is being published by the Society of Public Health Educators. For eight years, Dr. Turner served as director of a primary care physician-scientist fellowship funded by Health Resources and Services Administration’s National Research Service Award at the University of Pennsylvania. She has mentored over 50 individuals at all levels of training from college to faculty. In regard to leadership positions, She has served as Regent of the American College of Physicians (ACP) and President of the Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM). Dr. Turner completed an MD (1987) and a MSEd (1984) at the University of Pennsylvania, an MA (1973) from Harvard University and a BA (1972) from Wellesley College.	Primary Care and Health Disparities focusing on improving management and outcomes for chronic pain and chronic hepatitis C infection.	Policy, PPHE	IAS Faculty Member	https://healthpolicy.usc.edu/author/barbara-turner-md-msed-ma-macp/
	Bradley Peterson, MD	MD	Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry	Pediatrics	Keck School of Medicine	bpeterson@chla.usc.edu	Faculty	Bradley S. Peterson, MD, is the inaugural director of the Institute for the Developing Mind at Children's Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA), as well as Vice Chair for Research and Chief of the Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry at the Keck School of Medicine and the University of Southern California. He joined CHLA and USC in July 2014 after 13 years at Columbia University, where he served as the director of the Center for Developmental Neuropsychiatry, the founding director of the MRI Research Program, and the Chief of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. Before that, he spent 12 years at Yale University, where he served as Director of Neuroimaging at the Yale Child Study Center. His research involves the development and use of neuroimaging technologies to identify the brain bases of psychiatric disorders and the mechanisms of therapeutic response across the life span. Specific disease processes that he studies include Autism, Depression, Bipolar Disorder, ADHD, Tourette syndrome, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Schizophrenia, eating disorders, stuttering, premature birth, and the effects of environmental toxins on brain development.	Neuroimaging Technologies, Mechanisms of Therapeutic Response, Autism, Depression, BPD, ADHD, Tourette Syndrome, OCD, Schizophrenia, Eating Disorders, Stuttering	PPHE	IAS Faculty Member	https://keck.usc.edu/faculty-search/bradley-peterson/
	Brian Lee, MD	MD	Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine	Medicine (Hepatologist)	Keck School of Medicine	brian.lee@med.usc.edu	Faculty	Dr. Lee is a transplant hepatologist who treats patients before and after liver transplant. His NIAAA-funded research program focuses on improving health for patients with alcohol use and liver disease, through: 1) early transplant in alcohol hepatitis; 2) intersection of alcohol and obesity in the liver; 3) health inequities; 4) public policy and advocacy; 5) novel therapies and translational science. His research has led to first-author studies in Annals of Internal Medicine, Lancet Public Health, JAMA Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology, Journal of Hepatology, among others. His research has featured in New York Times, Washington Post, NBC Nightly News, Today Show, NPR, CNN, Forbes, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, among others. He has led advocacy initiatives that successfully changed national- and state-wide transplant and insurance policies to improve healthcare access for patients. His research has incorporated into practice guidelines across North America, Europe, Latin America, and Asia. He serves as a voting member on the FDA Gastrointestinal Drugs Advisory Committee.	Alcohol-Associated Liver Disease	Policy	IAS Faculty Member	https://keck.usc.edu/faculty-search/brian-p-lee/
	Bridgid Mariko Conn, PhD	PhD	Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics	Pediatrics	Keck School of Medicine	bconn@usc.edu	Faculty	Bridgid M. Conn, PhD, ABPP is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics in the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California. She is a diplomate at the Academy of Cognitive Therapy. Her research focuses on adolescent and young adult mental health, particularly among marginalized and minoritized communities.	Pediatrics, LGBTQIA+, Cannabis	PPHE, Biopsych	IAS Faculty Member	https://keck.usc.edu/faculty-search/bridgid-conn/
	Cameron Kaplan, PhD	PhD	Assistant Professor of Medicine	Gehr Family Center for Health Systems Science + PPHS	Keck School of Medicine	kaplanc@usc.edu	Faculty	Cameron Kaplan, PhD, is a health economist and Assistant Professor of Medicine at the USC Gehr Family Center for Health Systems Science. His work focuses on the impact of health policy and insurance benefit design on healthcare utilization, health outcomes, and disparities. Kaplan received his PhD in economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2011. Following his PhD, Dr. Kaplan completed a two-year post-doctoral program in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the University of Pittsburgh. He most recently joined USC from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis. He is currently the principal investigator of two large research grants: an R01 from NIA examining the impact of the Medicare prescription drug donut hole closure on medication adherence and health outcomes, and a research scholar grant from the American Cancer Society examining the impact of premium surcharges for tobacco uses in the ACA health insurance exchanges on enrollment.	Tobacco; Health Economics; Policy	Policy	IAS Faculty Member	https://healthpolicy.usc.edu/author/cameron-kaplan/
	Carolyn F. Wong, PhD	PhD	Associate Professor of Research Pediatrics	Pediatrics	Keck School of Medicine	cawong@chla.usc.edu	Faculty	As a Social Health Psychologist, much of Dr. Wong’s scientific work has been devoted to understanding how developmental risk factors, trauma, and stress (e.g., discrimination, violence and victimization) lead to maladaptive coping behaviors (e.g., substance use, sexual risk-taking) and how that translates to poor mental and physical health outcomes. She is also interested in investigating how psychosocial protective factors (e.g., resilience and social support, access to health programs) from different spheres of life might impact these associations. Major areas of research includes: 1. Cannabis, tobacco, alcohol, and their co-use, other substance use, policy impacts, and health outcomes 2. HIV risk, substance use, mental health among sexual-minority and gender-minority adolescents and young adults 3. Translation science: how best to utilize research to inform programs and interventions 4. Health disparities among underserved and vulnerable populations 5. Tailored intervention development for high-risk adolescents and young adults Dr. Wong is currently an Associate Professor of Research in the Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Department of Pediatrics at Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Keck School of Medicine at USC.	Cannabis, tobacco, alcohol, and their co-use, other substance use, policy impacts, and health outcomes. HIV risk, substance use, mental health among sexual-minority and gender-minority adolescents and young adults. Translation science: how best to utilize research to inform programs and interventions. Health disparities among underserved and vulnerable populations. Tailored intervention development for high-risk adolescents and young adults	Biopysch	IAS Faculty Member	https://keck.usc.edu/faculty-search/carolyn-f-wong/
	Caryn Lerman, PhD	PhD	Director of the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center	Cancer	Keck School of Medicine	clerman@usc.edu	Faculty	Dr. Caryn Lerman is the Director of the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Associate Dean for Cancer Programs, and the H. Leslie and Elaine S. Hoffman Cancer Research Chair at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. She is recognized for her cancer prevention research that bridges the fields of neuroscience, genomics, pharmacology, and population science. A major unifying focus of her research is biology-driven science to reduce cancer risk behaviors. This work has spawned novel lines of investigation, including: the behavioral epidemiology of cancer genetic susceptibility testing; pharmacogenomic approaches to tobacco dependence leading to the first prospective stratified pharmacogenomic trial in this area; and neuroscience-based interventions to reduce tobacco dependence. An elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, Dr. Lerman has served as a member of the NCI Board of Scientific Advisors, the National Human Genome Research Advisory Council, and the National Institutes on Drug Abuse Advisory Council. She is the current Vice President/President-Elect of the Association of American Cancer Institutes and a past president of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco. Additional awards and honors include the American Cancer Society Cancer Control Award, the American Society of Preventive Oncology Joseph Cullen Award, the Alton Ochsner Award Relating Smoking and Health, the NIH Matilda White Riley Award, and the Los Angeles Business Journal award for Women Leaders in Healthcare.	Cancer Prevention	Policy, PPHE	IAS Faculty Member	https://keck.usc.edu/faculty-search/caryn-lerman/
	Chanita Hughes-Halbert, PhD	PhD	Associate Director of the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Cancer Equity	Cancer	Keck School of Medicine	hughesha@usc.edu	Faculty	r. Hughes-Halbert serves as the Associate Director for Cancer Equity. She is a nationally recognized leader in cancer prevention and minority health research. She has dedicated her career to reducing the disparities in cancer outcomes that affect patients from underrepresented communities, with a primary focus on African American communities. Among her many achievements, she has identified sociocultural, psychological, genetic and environmental determinants of cancer health disparities and translates this information into interventions to improve health equity among racially and ethnically diverse populations, as well as other medically underserved groups.For her many contributions, Hughes-Halbert was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2017. In addition to her election to the National Academy of Medicine, Hughes-Halbert received the American Cancer Society’s Cancer Control Award in 2010. President Barack Obama appointed her to the National Cancer Institute’s Board of Scientific Advisors in 2012, and in 2014 she joined the National Advisory Council of the National Human Genome Research Institute. The American Association for Cancer Research named her chair of its Minorities in Cancer Research Council the same year, and she received the AACR Distinguished Lecture Award on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities, funded by the Susan G. Komen Foundation, in 2018. She earned her master’s and doctoral degrees from Howard University after graduating summa cum laude from Hampton University.	Cancer, lung cancer, health equity, minority health, African American communities			https://uscnorriscancer.usc.edu/chanita-hughes-halbert-phd/
	Claradina Soto, PhD	PhD	Assistant Professor of Clinical Population and Public Health Sciences	PPHS	Keck School of Medicine	toya@usc.edu	Faculty	Dr. Claradina Soto (Navajo/Jemez Pueblo) is an Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine in the Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research. She has over 20 years working with American Indian and Alaska Native populations in public health, collaborating with urban and Tribal communities in CA to reduce and prevent mental health disparities, cancer prevalence, commercial tobacco use, and substance use and opioid use disorders. She collaborates on several research projects funded by NIH/FDA, Tobacco Related Disease Research Program (TRDRP), Department of Health Care Services, California Tobacco Control Programs and the Office of Health Equity. She teaches courses in the Master of Public Health and Health Promotion programs at USC and mentors undergraduate and graduate students. Dr. Soto is a longtime advocate for the AI/AN communities and other priority populations to advance health equity and reduce health disparities.	Diversity/ Cross Cultural; Tobacco; Opioids	PPHE	IAS Faculty Member	https://keck.usc.edu/faculty-search/claradina-soto/
	Daryl Davies, PhD	PhD	Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education & Professor of Clinical Pharmacy	Clinical Pharmacy	School of Pharmacy	ddavies@usc.edu	Faculty	Dr. Daryl Davies serves on the IAS Executive Leadership Council. He is Co-Leader of the IAS Mechanisms and Treatment Development research group/committee alongside IAS Member, Dr. John Monterosso. The goal of the research group is to bring together psychobiologists to bridge the gap between bench and bedside, and to facilitate the flow of scientific discovery to practical application. He is a Co-Director of the Rising STARS program alongside IAS Members Dr. Terry Church & Dr. Amanda Burkhardt. This program is a cooperative science education initiative between USC and Francisco Bravo Medical Magnet High School in East Los Angeles. Dr. Davies is Associate Dean of undergraduate education and professor at USC Mann's Titus Family Department of Clinical Pharmacy where he oversees undergraduate majors/minors. He also directs the master's program in drug development management and advises the TAP program. Hr leads a research team at USC that works to discover and develop novel therapeutics for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases and alcoholism. He is considered a pioneer in the field of purinergic receptors and their role in central nervous system regulation of alcohol-induced changes in alcohol intake and signaling. He is a firm believer in using an interdisciplinary approach. To this end, his group works with a team of collaborators that use a combination of pharmacological, toxicological, electrophysiological, molecular, computational chemistry, molecular modeling, and regulatory expertise to discover and develop new drugs.	Pharmacology, Substance Abuse, Alcoholism	Biopsych	IAS Associate Director	https://pharmacyschool.usc.edu/faculty/daryl-l-davies-phd/
	David Black, PhD, MPH	PhD, MPH	Associate Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences	PPHS	Keck School of Medicine	davidbla@usc.edu	Faculty	Dr. Black an Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He is also a member of the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center and Associate Director of Education for the USC Center for Mindfulness Science. His research had been funded by university, private, and federal grants for over 17 years. He as authored and co-authored over 75 peer-reviewed articles in journals including JAMA Internal Medicine, JAMA Pediatrics, Cancer, Pediatrics, American Journal of Public Health, Behaviour Research and Therapy, and Psychosomatic Medicine. Dr. Black began his early career in the health sciences and earned a Master of Public Health degree and directed his first grant-funded human subjects research study prior to finishing his masters thesis. He trained as a NIH National Cancer Institute predoctoral fellow for five years at the USC Institute for Prevention Research, where he latter earned his Ph.D. The focus of his doctoral training was in substance misuse prevention and addictions research. He had self-studied contemplative theory and practices over the previous decade, and realized an opportunity to merge his passion for the contemplative studies with his training in the health sciences. He continued advanced training as a NIH National Institute on Aging postdoctoral fellow at the University of California at Los Angeles Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology. He focused his research effort on conducting a randomized controlled trial to test the impact of mindfulness training on sleep and inflammation in older adults with sleep problems. He went on to articulate a novel conceptual model to illustrate how mindfulness training exerts biological influence from brain to body using a genomic signal transduction framework with downstream biological impact on sympathetic nervous system activity, release of norepinephrine at nerve terminals, activation of b-adrenergic receptors on adjacent cells, and the cAMP/PKA signaling pathway that ultimately regulates gene expression by stimulating transcription factors, particularly those associated with the propagation of inflammation in peripheral blood. He recently completed a NIH NIDA R01 randomized controlled trial testing mindfulness training added to residential treatment for substance use disorder. He is currently co-PI of a clinical trial testing an app-based mindfulness training for smoking cessation that recruits smokers from across the state of California. He enjoys mentoring undergraduate and graduate students, was awarded the 2015 USC Mentoring Award for graduate students from the Center for Excellence in Teaching. He enjoys spending time with his family in nature, fly fishing, camping, and reading.	Mind Body medicine, Addiction, Disease Prevention	Biopsych	IAS Faculty Member	https://keck.usc.edu/faculty-search/david-black/
	David Dadiomov, PharmD, BCPP	PharmD, BCPP	Clinical Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice	Clinical Pharmacy	School of Pharmacy	dadiomov@usc.edu	Faculty	David Dadiomov, PharmD, BCPP, is a clinical assistant professor of clinical pharmacy in the Titus Family Department of Clinical Pharmacy. He received his PharmD from the University of Michigan College of Pharmacy. Dadiomov completed his PGY1 Pharmacy Residency at Michigan Medicine, and his PGY2 Psychiatric Pharmacy Residency at University of California, San Diego, Health. He holds board certification in psychiatric pharmacy. Dadiomov serves as the director of the PGY2 Psychiatric Pharmacy Residency Program. He maintains clinical practice in addiction medicine at Los Angeles County + USC Medical Center. In this role he provides consultations in psychiatry and addiction as well as seeing patients in the Complex Care Clinic. Dadiomov has worked with the LA County Department of Health Services to establish novel clinical pharmacy services for patients experiencing homelessness, patients currently or recently released from incarceration, as well as those with severe mental illness and addiction disorders.	Psychoactive Substances, Substance Use Disorder, Psychiatric Disorders, Pharmacy Practice, Psychopharmacology	Policy, PPHE	IAS Faculty Member	https://pharmacyschool.usc.edu/faculty/david-dadiomov-pharmd-bcpp/
	Dayoung Bae, PhD	PhD	Assistant Professor Of Clinical Population and Public Health Sciences	PPHS	Keck School of Medicine	dayoung@usc.edu	Faculty	Dr. Dayoung Bae is an IAS faculty member. She is a professor for the IAS Master of Addiction Science (MAS) program where she teaches ADSC 505b, Research Methods in Addiction Science. This course serves as an introduction to research in the addiction sciences and is the second in a series of two classes. Dr. Bae is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Population and Public Health Sciences. She is a part of the Division of Health Behavior Research in the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences at USC. Her primary research focus is on the association between stressful life events and health risk behaviors across adolescence and young adulthood. Dr. Bae is interested in early exposure to adverse family and community environments. She aims to investigate how stressful life experiences have long-term effects on changes in substance use behaviors as well as identify & implement proper advanced statistical models using longitudinal cohort survey data.	Mental Health, Substance Abuse, Adolescent Health		IAS Faculty Member	https://keck.usc.edu/faculty-search/dayoung-bae/
	Dima Qato, PharmD, MPH, PhD	PharmD, MPH, PhD	Associate Professor of Clinical Pharmacy	Clinical Pharmacy	School of Pharmacy	qato@usc.edu	Faculty	Dima Mazen Qato, PharmD, MPH, PhD serves as the Hygeia Centennial Chair and Associate Professor (with tenure) in the Titus Family Department of Clinical Pharmacy. She has also been appointed as a Senior Fellow with the USC Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics. Dr. Qato is currently leading the Program on Medicines and Public Health within the Titus Family Department of Clinical Pharmacy at USC. At the USC Mann School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, she will develop and lead interdisciplinary research efforts focusing on drug utilization, access to medicines, and pharmaceutical policy both in the U.S. and globally to better understand why medications are used, or not used, and how they can and should be used in the population to promote equity, longevity and good health. Dr. Qato’s research utilizes population-based methods to better understand the underlying mechanisms responsible for the use, underuse and unsafe use of medications, how these patterns may influence health outcomes and health disparities, and what can be done from a community and policy perspective to address these growing public health problems. Dr. Qato’s goal is to promote public accountability to better ensure access to, and safe use of, medications at the national, state and local levels. In an effort to achieve this goal, Dr. Qato is interested in incorporating the concept of ‘essential medicines’ in payment and regulatory decision-making in ongoing health care reform.	Drug Utilization, Access to Medicines, and Pharmaceutical Policy (U.S and Globally)	Policy, PPHE, Biopsych	IAS Faculty Member	https://healthpolicy.usc.edu/author/dima-m-qato-pharmd-mph-phd/
	Emily Johnson, MD	MD		Emergency Medicine	Keck School of Medicine	emilyjo1@usc.edu	Faculty	Physician at University of Southern California, Associate Medical Director, Department of Emergency Medicine	Health Communication and Communication Networks, Relation to sexual health among minority groups, Social network dynamics,	PPHE, Biopsych	IAS Faculty Member
	Eric Pedersen, PhD	PhD	Associate Professor of Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences	Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences + PPHS	Keck School of Medicine	Eric.Pedersen@med.usc.edu	Faculty	Dr. Eric Pedersen serves on the Executive Leadership Council at IAS. He is a Co-Leader for the IAS Priority Populations and Health Equity research group/committee alongside IAS Member, Dr. Jungeun Olivia Lee. This group researches the social determinants of health, health disparities and other confounding factors contributing to our nation’s addiction crisis is the focus of this research group – a true collaboration amongst a large number of disciplines. Dr. Pedersen is an associate professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Keck School of Medicine at USC and an adjunct behavioral scientist at RAND Corporation. He leads the PEARL Lab at USC, which focuses on young adult alcohol use, mental health disorders, and developing online interventions for alcohol misuse in populations like college students and discharged veterans. He aims to address comorbid PTSD and substance use disorders and enhance treatment engagement among non-treatment-seeking young adults using internet-based methods. He is the previous Director and now Director Emeritus of Project ALERT, a middle school drug prevention program developed at RAND. Pedersen earned his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Washington in 2012.	Alcohol, Brief Interventions, Technology, SBIRT, Adolescents Young Adults	PPHE	IAS Priority Populations and Health Equity Co-Lead	https://keck.usc.edu/faculty-search/eric-pedersen/
	Eunjoo Huisung Pacifici, PharmD, PhD	PharmD, PhD	Associate Professor of Regulatory and Quality Sciences	Regulatory and Quality Sciences	School of Pharmacy	epacific@usc.edu	Faculty	Eunjoo Pacifici received her doctor of pharmacy and PhD in toxicology from the University of Southern California. She conducted her graduate research in the laboratory of Dr. Alex Sevanian in the Institute for Toxicology at USC, where she studied the mechanism of oxidative damage and repair in endothelial cell membrane. After receiving her graduate degrees, Pacifici worked at Amgen and gained experience in conducting clinical research with a special focus on Asia Pacific and Latin America regions. She initially worked in the clinical development group managing U.S. investigational sites and central laboratories and then went on to work in the Asia Pacific/Latin America group interfacing with local clinical and regulatory staff in Japan, People’s Republic of China, Taiwan and Mexico. She represented regional clinical and regulatory views on therapeutic product development teams and led satellite task forces in order to align local efforts with U.S. activities. Her additional professional experiences include community pharmacy practice in various settings and clinical pharmacy practice at the Hospital of the Good Samaritan in Los Angeles. In her current role, Pacifici is working to provide the next generation of regulatory scientists and pharmacy professionals with knowledge, tools and skills to expedite the development and delivery of innovative, safe and effective biomedical products.	Toxicology, Clinical Research, Drug Regulations	Policy	IAS Faculty Member	https://pharmacyschool.usc.edu/faculty/eunjoo-pacifici-pharmd-phd/
	Hans Oh, PhD	PhD	Assistant Professor	Adult Mental Health and Wellness	Dworak-Peck School of Social Work	hansoh@usc.edu	Faculty	Hans Oh is a social worker and psychiatric epidemiologist who studies the social determinants and health correlates of psychotic experiences. He earned his PhD from Columbia University School of Social Work, and has received fellowships to enhance his training in adult mental health services. These fellowships include a behavioral health fellowship at Yale School of Medicine, where he worked in an acute crisis unit and supervised a peer support program. He also undertook a psychosocial rehabilitation fellowship at the Veteran Affairs in San Diego, where he provided recovery-oriented services to veterans with psychotic disorders. He completed a post-doctoral fellowship in prevention science at the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation/UC Berkeley School of Public Health.	Psychotic Experiences, Psychiatric Epidemiology, Korean American Health	PPHE	IAS Faculty Member	https://dworakpeck.usc.edu/academics/faculty-directory/hans-oh
	Heather Wipfli, PhD	PhD	Associate Professor of Clinical Population and Public Health	PPHS/International Relations	Keck School of Medicine/Dornsife	hwipfli@usc.edu	Faculty	Heather Wipfli, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Preventative Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine with a joint appointment in the Department of Political Science and International Relation at the Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences at the University of Southern California (USC). Dr. Wipfli holds a Ph.D. in International Studies from the Graduate Institute of International Studies at the University of Geneva. Her research focuses on international cooperation and governance approaches to improve health, specifically in regards to global chronic disease control including tobacco use, obesity, and exposure to air pollution, as well as adolescent-focused community-based interventions. She has conducted research in dozens of countries throughout the world and currently focuses much of her efforts in East Africa, namely Uganda. She is also a member of the California Thirdhand Smoke Research Consortium, in which she serves as the co-Director of the Thirdhand Smoke Research Center	international cooperation and governance approaches to improve health, specifically in regards to global chronic disease control including tobacco use, obesity, and exposure to air pollution, as well as adolescent-focused community-based interventions.	Policy, PPHE	IAS Faculty Member	https://keck.usc.edu/faculty-search/heather-lynn-wipfli/
	Jane Steinberg, PhD, MPH	PhD, MPH	Associate Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences, Director of Public Health Practice	PPHS	Keck School of Medicine	janestei@usc.edu	Faculty	Jane K. Steinberg, PhD, MPH is an Associate Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine. Her research focuses on determinants of multiple risk behaviors (alcohol/drug use, HIV/STDs) among youth and young adults, and development of educational interventions to reduce health risks. She is also interested in the public health impacts of local and state tobacco and cannabis policies on product use, particularly among low-income, ethnically diverse youth. She is a co-investigator on a study to examine the association between proximity to cannabis retailers and cannabis use among adolescents. She is also a co-investigator on a study to evaluate the adoption, implementation and impact of tobacco policy and system change campaigns in California. Currently, she and her colleagues are conducting a study to rapidly develop and evaluate a community-based COVID-19 educational intervention to mitigate risks of disease acquisition and transmission among high-risk Latino residents in LA County. Dr. Steinberg is the Director of Public Health Practice for the MPH Program in Population and Public Health Sciences. She received her B.A. in Psychology from the University of California, Davis, and her MPH and PhD in Community Health Sciences from the University California, Los Angeles.	Health Disparities; Adolescents, Young Adults; Marijuana; Tobacco	Policy, PPHE	IAS Faculty Member	https://keck.usc.edu/faculty-search/jane-steinberg/
	Jason Doctor, PhD	PhD	Associate Professor & Chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management	Health Policy and Management	Price School of Public Policy	jdoctor@healthpolicy.usc.edu	Faculty	Jason Doctor is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management at the University of Southern California’s Price School of Public Policy. He is also the Director of Health Informatics at the USC Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics. His research program centers on decision-making in healthcare and health informatics. Dr. Doctor specializes in behavioral economics and the use of choice architecture to affect policy in health and medicine. In other research, he has studied computational approaches to detecting medical errors and has established methods for representing preferences and values for health.	Physician Behavior and Psychology, Behavioral Economics and Health, Patient Choice and Decision Making, Health Policy and Implementation, Treatment Preferences, Prescriptions, Health Informatics	Policy	IAS Faculty Member	https://priceschool.usc.edu/people/jason-doctor/
	Jennifer B Unger, PhD	PhD	Professor of PPHS	PPHS	Keck School of Medicine	unger@usc.edu	Faculty	Jennifer B. Unger, Ph.D. is a Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine. Her research focuses on the psychological, social, and cultural influences on health-risk and health-protective behaviors among diverse populations. She currently serves as an Associate Director of the USC Coronavirus Pandemic Research Center (CPRC) and co-leads studies of rapid antigen testing in schools and vaccine hesitancy among college students. She and her colleagues have conducted longitudinal studies of acculturation, cultural stress, and substance use among Hispanic adolescents, highlighting the role of discrimination in health-risk behaviors. Her research also has examined cultural influences on tobacco use among American Indian adolescents, Chinese adolescents, and African American adults and neighborhood influences on adolescent cannabis use. She has collaborated on the design and evaluation of fotonovelas and telenovelas about secondhand smoke exposure in multiunit housing; diabetes; asthma; immunization; and kidney transplantation. She is a Project Leader in the USC Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science (TCORS), where she studies diffusion of messages about emerging tobacco products to vulnerable populations through social media and leads the Population Core, which conducts annual surveys of three longitudinal cohorts of adolescents and young adults. She is a Program Leader of the Cancer Control program at the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center and Director of the Ph.D. program in Population and Public Health Sciences / Health Behavior Research. She teaches predoctoral courses in research methods and grantwriting.	Health Disparities; Diversity/ Cross Cultural; Adolescents, Young Adults; Tobacco; Behavioral Health; Substance Misuse	Policy, PPHE	IAS Faculty Member	https://keck.usc.edu/faculty-search/jennifer-b-unger/
	Jennifer Lewis, PhD	PhD	Clinical Associate Professor	Adult Mental Health and Wellness	Dworak-Peck School of Social Work	lewi573@usc.edu	Faculty	Jennifer Lewis, a 2022 Fulbright Specialist, is an experienced mental health clinician with a passion towards transdisciplinary care. She is adept at conducting and teaching neurobiologically-informed interventions related to improving well-being. With a specialization in mental health and addiction, Professor Lewis serves as a curriculum co- chair for the USC Institute for Addiction Science, a joint program with the Keck School of Medicine at USC, the USC School of Pharmacy and the school of social work. For the Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, Professor Lewis promotes integrated social work curriculum and has been a leader in the vertical and horizontal mapping of the school's curriculum as vice chair of Curriculum Council, chair of the Adult Mental Health and Wellness Department Curriculum Committee, University Task Force on Interdisciplinary Communities and a Center for Excellence in Teaching Fellow. Before entering academia, Professor Lewis was the chief of social work at the University of California, San Diego, Health System Department of Pediatrics Infectious Disease where she authored and implemented a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services grant for HIV-positive mothers abusing substances to prevent the abuse, neglect and abandonment of children.	Children and Families, Mental Health	TC	IAS Training Consortium Co-Lead	https://dworakpeck.usc.edu/academics/faculty-directory/jennifer-lewis
	Jessica L. Barrington-Trimis, PhD	PhD	Assistant Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences	PPHS	Keck School of Medicine	jtrimis@usc.edu	Faculty	Dr. Jessica L. Barrington-Trimis serves on the IAS Steering Committee and is a Co-Leader of the Training Consortium alongside IAS Member, Dr. Terry Church. This group is responsible for enhancing addiction-related education from the community level throughout the highest levels of higher education to enhance our community’s ability to serve and treat individuals. Dr. Barrington-Timis is the Co-Director of the Master of Addiction Science (MAS) program where she also teaches the MAS course ADSC 505a Research Methods in Addiction Science. This course serves as an introduction to research in the addiction sciences and is the first in a series of two classes. This course introduces students to scientific literature review, development of research questions, design of studies, development of survey instruments, preparation of IRB protocols, and development of grants. Additionally, she is a MAS faculty mentor for the Master's Thesis. She is also a Co-Director of the REBEL Research Lab alongside IAS member, Dr. Alyssa Harlow. Dr. Barrington-Trimis, an epidemiologist and Assistant Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences at USC, is affiliated with multiple research labs and institutes at the university. She earned her BA in Philosophy and English from Bucknell University in 2007 before joining Teach for America, where she earned her MA in Education. Subsequently, she pursued an MS in Global Medicine and a PhD in Epidemiology. Following a postdoctoral fellowship at the USC Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science (FDA and NIH-supported), she joined USC's faculty in 2017. Her research explores the evolving landscape of tobacco, alternative tobacco, and cannabis use, focusing on understanding the psychological, behavioral, and social factors influencing adolescent and young adult nicotine and cannabis product use. She also investigates the health implications of various usage patterns, such as the respiratory effects of e-cigarette use.	Opioids; Policy; Tobacco	TC	IAS Training Consortium Co-Lead	https://keck.usc.edu/faculty-search/jessica-l-barrington-trimis/
	Jimi Huh, PhD	PhD	Associate Professor of Research, Population and Public Health Sciences	PPHS	Keck School of Medicine	jimihuh@usc.edu	Faculty	Dr.Jimi Huh has joined the University of Southern California in 2011. She has a background in psychology and epidemiology, with specific interests in the topics of health disparities, acculturation and immigrant health. Since joining IPR, she has expanded her research to include developmental aspects of various health behaviors and has acquired various analytic skills, with special emphasis on multilevel modeling, mixture growth curve modeling, piecewise growth curve model, latent class analysis and latent transition analysis. Her past project, funded by Tobacco Related Disease Research Program (TRDRP) examines cultural influences on tobacco use and environmental exposure to smoking among Korean American emerging adults (KAEA), using mixed methods. Her recent work also includes applying innovative statistical models pertinent to Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) data such as mixed-effects location scale model and time-varying effect models. Her current project assesses ecological contexts of smoking among KAEA using mobile device. She plans to develop a culturally-tailored ecological momentary intervention to curb smoking among KAEA.	Health Disparities; Immigrant Health; Tobacco	Policy, PPHE	IAS Faculty Member	https://keck.usc.edu/faculty-search/jimi-huh/
	Jing Liang, PhD	Phd	Professor	CXPT	School of Pharmacy	jliang1@usc.edu	Faculty	Jing Liang has more than 25 years of experience in drug development from exploring compounds, preclinical trials to clinical trials. This work includes Ginseng Saponin (preclinical and clinical trials); OPC21268, an anti-hypertensive drug developed by Otsuka Pharmaceutical, Japan; Fasudil Hydrochloride (INN), a medication of subarachnoid hemorrhage (preclinical trials including safety/toxicity and clinical trials); dihydromyricitin (DHM), as a medication for alcohol use disorders; and DHM, as a therapeutic for Alzheimer’s disease/dementia. Liang led her team in identifying a flavonoid compound dihydromyricetin (DHM), purified from herbal medication—Hovenia—as a candidate for medication for Alzheimer’s disease. Her team found that DHM has a high efficacy on Alzheimer’s disease compared with Food and Drug Administration–approved medications such as Memantine. DHM can restore functional GABAergic synapses as well as improve recognition and memory/learning abilities. Based on a World Health Organization 2016 report, the worldwide prevalence of Alzheimer’s was estimated to be 26.6 million in 2006, and an estimated 107 million individuals worldwide are expected to have the condition by 2050. Therefore, this development provides hope for people who are suffering from cognition/memory loss and Alzheimer’s disease or other dementia. Liang’s team also identified the Gephyrin-GABAAR pathway as a new mechanism/molecular target for treatment of central nervous system disorders including Alzheimer’s disease, dementia and Parkinson’s disease.	GABA research and drug development; DHM and alcohol/sleep/anxiety	Biopsych	IAS Faculty Member	https://pharmacyschool.usc.edu/faculty/jing-liang-md-phd/
	Joey Trampush, PhD	PhD	Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Sciences	Clinical Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences	Keck School of Medicine	Joey.Trampush@med.usc.edu	Faculty	Dr. Trampush is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at the Keck School of Medicine at USC. He is a developmental neuropsychologist and geneticist. His research program examines psychopathology across the lifespan, with a particular focus in three core areas: 1) molecular genetics of neurocognitive function in health and disease; 2) neurocognitive function in psychiatric illness; and 3) neurocognitive development and individual trajectories. This work aims to enhance our understanding of the biological and genetic basis of severe psychiatric illnesses that emerge early in life, are chronic across the lifespan, and among the leading causes of disability worldwide.	Behavioral Genetics, Neuropsychology	Biopsych	IAS Faculty Member	https://keck.usc.edu/faculty-search/joey-trampush/
	John Clapp, PhD	PhD	Professor of Social Work and Preventative Medicine	Behavioral Health, PPHS	Dworak-Peck School of Social Work	johnclap@usc.edu	Faculty	John D. Clapp is a professor at the Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work at the University of Southern California. Professor Clapp is known internationally for his research and translational work in the field of alcohol problem prevention. A fellow in the American Academy of Health Behavior, he is currently studying the system dynamics of drinking events with a team of engineers and computer scientists with the goal of developing “smart” real-time prevention applications. He has published more than 100 journal articles, with his work appearing in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, Addiction, Drug and Alcohol Dependence, among numerous other top research journals. Professor Clapp has been awarded more than $32 million in grants and contracts (NIAAA, NIDA, U.S. Department of Education, Conrad N. Hilton Foundation) and has been principal investigator on over 20 funded projects. Clapp was the founding co-editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Alcohol and Drug Research. As a leader in the prevention of alcohol-related problems experienced by college students, he served six years as the director of the Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Drug Misuse Prevention and Recovery. He also served on the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s Center for Substance Abuse Prevention National Advisory Council.	Substance Abuse, Alcohol Addiction, Social Science Methodology, Public Health, Alcohol and Drug Epidemiology	PPHE	IAS Associate Director	https://dworakpeck.usc.edu/academics/faculty-directory/john-d-clapp
	John Robert Monterosso, PhD	PhD	Associate Professor of Psychology	Psychology	Dornsife College of Letters/Arts/Sciences	johnrmon@usc.edu	Faculty	Dr. Monterosso is a Co-Leader of the IAS Mechanisms and Treatment Development research group/committee alongside IAS Member, Dr. Daryl Davies. The goal of the research group is to bring together psychobiologists to bridge the gap between bench and bedside, and to facilitate the flow of scientific discovery to practical application. Dr. Monterosso is a mentor to IAS students and actively supports the Student Association of Addiction Science (SAAS). He delves into the intricate workings of human self-control, exploring both its triumphs and pitfalls through the lens of behavioral economics and cognitive neuroscience. With over 100 co-authored journal articles and book chapters, his research zeroes in on addiction and obesity, generously backed by funding from the National Institutes of Health.	Behavioral Economics, Neuroimaging	Biopsych	IAS Faculty Member	https://dornsife.usc.edu/cf/faculty-and-staff/faculty.cfm?pid=1022683
	Jungeun Olivia Lee, PhD	PhD	Assistant Professor	Children, Youth, and Families	Dworak-Peck School of Social Work	lee363@usc.edu	Faculty	Dr. Jungeun Olivia Lee serves on the IAS Steering Committee & is a Co-Leader of the IAS Priority Populations & Health Equity research group/committee alongside IAS Member, Dr. Eric Pedersen. This group researches the social determinants of health, health disparities and other confounding factors contributing to our nation’s addiction crisis is the focus of this research group – a true collaboration amongst a large number of disciplines. She has also participated as a judge at IAS's Annual Early Career Addiction Science Showcase (ECASS). Dr. Lee joined the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work in 2014. Before this, she was a research scientist at the University of Washington’s School of Social Work and Social Development Research Group, after receiving her doctoral degree in 2009. Her research focuses on the interconnections among substance use, mental health, socioeconomic adversities, and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) across the life course, exploring how social and contextual risks influence these dynamics. ACEs are highly correlated with socioeconomic status (SES) in childhood and predictive of SES, substance use, and mental health in adulthood. Her work integrates three distinct areas—behavioral health, socioeconomic adversities, and ACEs—into four interconnected topics: socioeconomic inequalities in substance use and mental health, socioeconomic adversities and resilience across generations, the life course etiology of substance use, and the impact of ACEs (as it correlates to SES). She has contributed to numerous grants from agencies such as the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Dr. Lee serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research and BMC Public Health, and is an academic advisory board member for the Pacific Southwest region of the Prevention Technology Transfer Center Network. She is also a member of the Society for Social Work and Research and the Society for Prevention Research.	SES/Economic status (empmloyment, Education Income), ACEs and cormorbidity on mental health, impact on Substance use	PPHE	IAS Priority Populations and Health Equity Co-Lead	https://dworakpeck.usc.edu/academics/faculty-directory/jungeun-olivia-lee
	Junhan Cho, PhD	PhD	Assistant Professor of Research, Population and Public Health Sciences	PPHS	Keck School of Medicine	junhanch@usc.edu		Dr. Junhan Cho is an Assistant Professor of Research in the Department of Preventive Medicine in the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California. He is the Director of Methodology and Statistics for the USC-Health, Emotion, & Addiction Laboratory (USC-HEAL), which conducts interdisciplinary research on mental health problems and health-related behaviors. With a strong interest to develop advanced research methodologies, Dr. Cho's research aims to address how diverse social contexts and psychological vulnerabilities intersect to increase risk of addictive behaviors. Based on his research background on Human Development and Family Science throughout master and doctoral programs, his studies incorporate both theoretical and methodological frameworks necessary to conducting longitudinal and prevention studies on youth health risk behaviors with a focus on the psychosocial processes influenced by family and community contexts. His current studies include: 1) developmental patterns of conjoint multiple health risk behaviors; 2) longitudinal risk and protective pathways linking early contextual stressors to mental health problems in adolescence; and 3) interaction of social contexts and biological factors influencing psychological vulnerability to addictive behaviors including substance use across adolescence and young adulthood.	Health Disparities; Diversity/ Cross Cultural; Marijuana; Tobacco; Adolescents, Young Adults	PPHE	IAS Faculty Member	https://keck.usc.edu/faculty-search/junhan-cho/
	Kathryn Smith, RN, MN, DrPH	RN, MN, DrPH	Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry & The Behavioral Sciences	Psychiatry and The Behavioral Sciences	Keck School of Medicine	kathryn.smith@med.usc.edu		Dr. Smith has over 30 years of experience caring for children with special health care needs. She serves as Associate Director for Administration at the University of Southern California (USC) University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD) at Children's Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA)	Clinical Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences	PPHE, Biopsych	IAS Faculty Member	https://keck.usc.edu/faculty-search/kathryn-smith/
	Laura A Baker, PhD	PhD	Professor of Psychology	Psychology	Dornsife College of Letters/Arts/Sciences	lbaker@usc.edu		Professor Baker studies how heredity and the environment affect individual differences in human behavior, including cognitive abilities, personality, and psychopathology. Baker is particularly interested in the roots of aggression and antisocial behavior and their underlying social and biological risk factors. She is Director of the USC Twin Project, which investigates the genetic bases of reading disabilities, attention deficit disorders, and conduct behavior problems in childhood and adolescence. She is currently elected President of the Behavior Genetic Association (2006-2007).	Behavioral Genetics; Development of Conduct Problems in Youth.	PPHE	IAS Faculty Member	https://dornsife.usc.edu/cf/psyc/psyc_faculty_display.cfm?person_id=1003067
	Lina D'Orazio, PhD	PhD	Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry & The Behavioral Sciences	Neurology, Neuropsychology	Keck School of Medicine	Lina.DOrazio@med.usc.edu		Dr. Lina D'Orazio is a neuropsychologist and clinical psychologist, who, as an Assistant Professor of Neurology in the Keck School of Medicine of the USC, is the Founding Director of the USC Cross-Cultural Neuropsychology Program which provides research and clinical services designed to understand and assess how cultural contexts shape behavioral and cognitive outcomes across the diversity spectrum. After graduating from Brown University and working in behavioral medicine research in Columbia University Medical Center's Department of Psychiatry, Dr. D'Orazio earned her master's and Ph.D. in clinical psychology from USC. A multi-year American Psychological Association Minority Fellow, Dr. D'Orazio specializes in minority health psychology, cultural neuropsychology, and in working with Latinx and Spanish-speaking communities. Dr. D'Orazio also works as a clinical consultant for research across the medical school and in various national consortia, and currently serves as a member of HEAL's Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee while providing social justice and anti-racism training.	Health Psychology; Minority Mental Health; Cultural Competency; Neuropsychology; Social Justice; Policy	Policy, PPHE, Biopsych	IAS Faculty Member	https://keck.usc.edu/faculty-search/lina-m-dorazio/
	Lindsay Erin Young, PhD	PhD	Assistant Professor of Communication	Communication	Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism	lindsay.young@usc.edu		Lindsay Young is an assistant professor of health communication and communication networks at USC Annenberg. Her research employs social-network and critical perspectives to identify, characterize, and interrogate the social contexts that contribute to and/or facilitate health disparities, access to critical health resources, and health behavior change in marginalized, resource-restricted communities. She has a particular interest in the contextual factors that affect HIV-prevention engagement among young sexual-minority men of color. To these ends, she applies a rich computational toolkit that includes stochastic network modeling, semantic network mapping, computational text analysis and predictive modeling. Young’s work is also driven by a praxis orientation, governed by a desire to help affected communities leverage the power of their organic networks toward improved community health. To these ends, she draws on community-oriented, asset-based models of community development and social network theories of health behavior change to design community health interventions that privilege intrinsic structures and assets. Currently, her work is supported by an NIH Career Development Pathway to Independence Award, funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). Her work has been published in top-tier, peer-reviewed journals across multiple research domains such as Social Science and Medicine, AIDS and Behavior, Clinical Trials, Preventive Medicine Reports, Social Networks, and Network Science.	Health Organizations and Networks	PPHE	IAS Faculty Member	https://annenberg.usc.edu/faculty/lindsay-young
	Lorraine Kelley-Quon, MD	MD	Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery	Pediatrics	Keck School of Medicine	lkquon@chla.usc.edu		Dr. Lorraine Kelley-Quon is an Assistant Professor of Surgery and Population and Public Health Sciences at Children's Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) and the University of Southern California. She obtained her B.S. in Biochemistry and Cell Biology at the University of California, San Diego and completed her M.D. and General Surgery training at the University of California, Los Angeles followed by a fellowship in Pediatric Surgery at Nationwide Children's Hospital at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. During residency, she completed the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program and obtained a Master's in Health Services Research from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. Dr. Kelley-Quon's research interests include identifying and eliminating health care disparities for children, optimizing pediatric surgical health care delivery and translating health services research into health policy. In partnership with HEAL, she is developing a pilot project to explore postoperative opioid use in adolescents and identify predictors of use, abuse, diversion, and conversion to chronic use. Her goal is to create physician decision support tools to optimize opioid prescribing for children and to inform policy makers of prudent initiatives regarding pediatric opioid legislation.	Opioids; Adolescents, Young Adults; Policy	Policy	IAS Faculty Member	https://keck.usc.edu/faculty-search/lorraine-kelley-quon/
	Lourdes Baezconde-Garbanati, PhD, MPH	PhD, MPH	Professor of PPHS, Associate Dean for Community Inititiative	PPHS	Keck School of Medicine	baezcond@usc.edu		Lourdes Baezconde-Garbanati, Ph.D., holds five academic degrees from Latin America, the United States and Europe and speaks multiple languages. Her degrees include a PhD and an MPH in Community Health Sciences and Public Health from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), an MA in Medical Psychology from the Universite Catholique de Louvain in Belgium, a BA in Clinical, and another BA in Industrial Psychology from the Universidad Nacional Pedro H. Urena in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. She has also studied at Laval University in Quebec, Canada, and at Cambridge University in England. Dr. Baezconde-Garbanati is a tenured faculty member in the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences at the Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California. She is a member of the directorate of the Institute for Health Promotion & Disease Prevention Research at USC, focusing on community outreach, community education and community-based research. She is the Co-Director of the Global Health Tract in the Masters of Public Health Program. Dr. Baezconde-Garbanati is a Member of the USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, where she serves as faculty liaison and Project Leader of the Patient Education and Community Outreach Center. At USC she also holds a joint appointment in the Department of Sociology and a courtesy appointment at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. She is also the Director and PI of the Keck School of Medicine of USC Center for Health Equity in the Americas, a virtual center that engages faculty and students in the Americas on research and training for the correction of health disparities. Dr. Baezconde-Garbanati conducts research, teaches, and provides technical assistance and training on cancer control with a focus on Latinos and other diverse and vulnerable populations. This includes Latino Americans in the US (Latino diaspora), Latinos and indigenous populations in the Americas (North America, Central America, South America and the Latino Caribbean). She also conducts research among African Americans, American Indians and Korean American populations. Her community based and community participatory research engages communities from inception of research conceptualization through the dissemination phases, and provides the science base for sound policy decision making. Most of her career has been devoted to tobacco prevention and control research, cervical cancer screening and promotion of the HPV vaccine, and obesity prevention at the community level. Other areas of interest include gender and ethnic minority health, and global health. Her health communication work emphasizes finding optimal mechanisms and strategies for communicating effective health messages; and developing and testing interventions to correct health disparities, including the use of narrative and entertainment education. One of the goals of her research method is to more quickly translate scientific findings into community initiatives and public health policy. Dr. Baezconde-Garbanati has received multiple awards and recognitions for her transdisciplinary research. She has been a member of five NIH funded Centers: the USC Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Center (TTURC), The Transdisciplinary Research Center on Energetics and Cancer (TREC), the Prevention Center (Substance Abuse Prevention), the USC Tobacco Center for Regulatory Sciences in Vulnerable Populations, and The Center of Excellence for Minority Youth. In addition, she has a strong tract record as PI or Co-Investigator in several NIH funded projects from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), and the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities. She received a Most Distinguished Career Award from the American Public Health Association Latino Caucus, the UCI Chancellor?s Award in Clinical and Translational Science, and the University of California Irvine (UCI) Chancellor?s Commendation for Outstanding Community Based-Participatory Research. Along with colleagues in the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Population and Public Health Sciences and Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, Dr. Baezconde-Garbanati won the Best Scientific Research Paper award at the Fifth International Conference on Design and Technology for her research on the design of a culturally intelligent technology-based medical interpretation devise, funded by the National Science Foundation. Along with colleagues at USC, Portland State University and Sand Diego State University, Dr. Baezconde-Garbanati is the winner of the Top Scientific Translational Research Award, awarded at George Mason University, at the International Health Communication Conference for her most recent transdisciplinary project with the USC School of Cinematic Arts, the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, and Population and Public Health Sciences (Transforming Cancer Knowledge, Attitudes and Beliefs through Narrative). This same research project won an American Public Health Association award from the Public Health Education and Health Promotion Section, Best Multimedia Material. This project Is also the winner of the NIH Commemorative 10-Year Common Fund Award for best video. Her short film, Tamale Lesson, was also one of the finalist at the Reel International Short Film Festival, in Melbourne, Australia. She has been recognized as a Public Health Hero by the National Alliance for Hispanic Health and Research America, and by the Midwest Regional Latino Health and Human Services Conference, and the National Latino Council on Alcohol and Tobacco. She is an appointee of the Governor of California to the Tobacco, Education and Research Oversight Committee, a Board Member of the National Alliance for Hispanic Health, and of Nuestras Voces, a national Latino network on tobacco control, funded by the Centers for Disease Control. Dr. Baezconde-Garbanati has traveled widely; and is well published in prestigious and high impact journals in her field, including the American Journal for Public Health, Nicotine and Tobacco Research, among other. She is also an outstanding and innovative educator, with a focus on service learning and transforming the classroom in creative ways to better equip students to deal with real world public health issues and public health emergencies, locally, nationally and globally.	Diversity/ Cross Cultural; Adolescents, Young Adults; Tobacco; Policy; Cancer	Policy, PPHE	IAS Faculty Member	https://keck.usc.edu/faculty-search/lourdes-baez-conde/
	Lynn Carol Miller, PhD	PhD	Professor of Communication	Communication	Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism	lmiller@usc.edu		Lynn C. Miller (PhD, personality psychology, UT, Austin) is a research-pioneer in developing and using a variety of technologies and techniques (e.g., virtual environments; intelligent agents, computational modeling of human construction of meaning and goal-based processes for agents in games; systematic representative design; neuroscience) to assess and change the dynamics of social cognitive and interpersonal processes, including mitigating shame, impacting health (e.g., mental health; HIV/AIDS risks) and other pro-social outcomes. Funded (over $20M) by numerous institutes at the National Institutes of Health (i.e., NIMH; NIGMS; NIDA; NIAID), the CDC, and a wide array of agencies in the Department of Defense/DARPA; she has published over 28 edited book chapters and 80 refereed journal articles in outlets in psychology (e.g., “Psychological Inquiry,” “Psychological Review,” “Psychological Bulletin,” “Psychological Science,” “Journal of Personality and Socialy Psychology”), interdisciplinary and neuroscience (e.g., “Behavioral and brain sciences,” “Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience,” “Annals of Behavioral Medicine,” “Human Brain Mapping,” “NeuroImage Clinical”), health and medicine (American Journal of Public Health, AIDS and Behavior, JIAS, Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, Health Psychology), and communication (e.g., Health Communication, Human Communication Research, Computers in Human Behavior, International Journal of Communication, and others).	Health, Science Technology and Innovation	Biopsych	IAS Faculty Member	https://annenberg.usc.edu/faculty/lynn-carol-miller
	Maryann Pentz, PhD	PhD	Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences	PPHS	Keck School of Medicine	pentz@usc.edu		Mary Ann Pentz, Ph.D. is Co-Director of the Center for Health Equity in the Americas and Director of the Institute and Professor in the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences. For over 20 years, her research and program development have focused on community and policy approaches to preventing tobacco, alcohol, drug use, and violence in youth. Her findings contributed to the formulation of a U.S. Senate bill and use of evidence-based criteria for appropriating funds for prevention under the Safe and Drug Free Schools Act. Her recent translational research includes evaluating dissemination of evidence-based prevention programs and policies, translation of evidence-based substance abuse prevention to obesity prevention, and smart growth communities as a built environment intervention to promote health. Two of her programs, Project STAR (a school and community-based program for drug abuse prevention) and TOPP (a tobacco and drug policy program for schools), have received awards from Congress and the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention and are on the National Registry of Effective Programs. Project STAR is the longest-running drug prevention trial in the U.S., having followed youth from early adolescence into mid-adulthood and their own school-age children. A recent program, Media Buzz (the first media literacy program designed specifically for drug abuse prevention), is expected to be considered for the National Registry next year. A new prevention trial, STEP, involves 24 cities in Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, Massachusetts, and Missouri. Findings are showing successful adoption and diffusion of evidence-based drug prevention in these cities. In addition, Dr. Pentz has chaired the NIDA Epidemiology and Prevention study section, been a member of Attorney General Reno’s Task Force on Methamphetamine and the NIH Peer Review Oversight Group.	Addiction, Tobacco, Adolscents Youth	Policy, PPHE	IAS Faculty Member	https://keck.usc.edu/faculty-search/maryann-pentz/
	Matthew Kirkpatrick, PhD	PhD	Assistant Professor of Research	PPHS	Keck School of Medicine	mgkirkpa@usc.edu		Dr. Kirkpatrick's research uses laboratory psychopharmacology, Ecological Momentary Assessment, and survey methods to focus on how drug use - both normal and problematic - functions in social contexts. His work examines the acute and residual effects of a range of psychoactive drugs (including alcohol, nicotine, and amphetamines) in ethnically diverse populations of both current drug abusers and healthy normal volunteers, and under various laboratory and naturalistic conditions. His current interests focus on: (1) the complex bi-directional interactions between acute drug effects and social settings, and how these interactions contribute to the rewarding effects of drugs; and (2) how friends and family can either help or hinder quit attempts (especially cigarette smoking quit attempts). Overall, this multidisciplinary approach carries direct clinical relevance as it will improve our understanding of drug use, which will help to develop novel treatments for those who wish to quit.	Addiction, Tobacco, Adolescents Young Adults, Health Behavior	Policy	IAS Faculty Member	https://keck.usc.edu/faculty-search/matthew-kirkpatrick/
	Michael Cousineau, DrPH	DrPH	Professor Emeritus of Clinical PPHS	PPHS	Keck School of Medicine	cousinea@usc.edu		Michael R. Cousineau, Dr.PH. is Professor in the Departments of Population and Public Health Sciences and Family at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, and the USC Price School Public Policy. He attended UC Berkeley and received his doctorate from the UCLA School of Public Health. Dr. Cousineau studies health policy, the determinants of health care utilization for the low-income populations, models of health insurance coverage, health care disparities, effectiveness of outreach and enrollment systems for public insurance programs, the operation of safety-net providers including community health centers and public hospitals, and health needs of vulnerable populations including the homeless and immigrants. He also works on globally including projects on primary care in Panama and universal coverage with the World Health Organization in Geneva. Dr. Cousineau is an expert on the Patient Protection Affordable Care Act, having given over 30 talks on the new law to community and professional groups. Dr. Cousineau has been funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, The Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services, the U.S. Health Services and Services Administration, The California Endowment, the Office of Minority Health, Blue Shield Foundation, the California Healthcare Foundation, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He teaches health policy in the Masters in Public Health Program at USC and in the Keck School Medicine’s Professionalism and The Practice of Medicine course. He has published in Health Affairs, Medical Care, Public Health Reports, the American Journal of Public Health, Academic Medicine, and Health Services Research.	Health Disparities; Policy; Social Determinants of Health; Vulnerable Populations	Policy	IAS Faculty Member	https://keck.usc.edu/faculty-search/michael-cousineau/
	Michael Menchine, MD, MPH	MD, MPH	Associate Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine	Keck School of Medicine	Keck School of Medicine	menchine@usc.edu		Michael Menchine, MD, MPH, is an associate professor of clinical emergency medicine and vice chair of clinical research at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. He works clinically in the emergency department at LAC+USC Medical Center. His research focuses on integrating solutions for chronic disease into acute care settings, with an emphasis on underserved, low-income patients with limited access to comprehensive medical care. He has led several studies examining strategies to improve the identification and care of patients with HIV and/or diabetes. He has received funding to support his studies from the California Policy Research Center, California HIV/AIDS Research Program, McKesson Foundation, California Chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians and Gilead Sciences. Following medical school, Menchine completed residencies in internal and emergency medicine at UCLA. Stimulated by his clinical observations of the social and policy determinants of disease, he pursued a Health Services Research Fellowship through the UCLA Department of Emergency Medicine, and was awarded an F32 grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research. He also completed a master of public health.	Chronic Disease; HIV; Diabetes; Policy; Social Determinants of Health	Policy, PPHE	IAS Faculty Member	https://keck.usc.edu/faculty-search/michael-menchine/
	Michael Jakowec, PhD	PhD	Associate Professor of Research Neurology	Neurology	Keck School of Medicine	mjakowec@surgery.usc.edu		The primary focus of research in Dr. Jakowec's laboratory is to better understand the molecular mechanisms involved in neuroplasticity in the injured brain with the emphasis on the basal ganglia, a region of the brain responsible for motor behavior. Currently, his laboratory is exploring the interactions between the neurotransmitter systems involving dopamine, glutamate and serotonine and finding ways to manipulate them to enhance motor behavior. To achieve this goal, animal models of basal gagnglia injury using the neurotoxicant MPTP are being used to investigate intrinsic neuroplasticity as well as using both pharmacological and behavioral modification including intensive treadmill exercise to alter the course of response to injury. Techniques and approaches used in the lab to examine alterations in genes and proteins of interest include immunocytochemistry, in situ hybridization histochemistry, western immunoblotting, light microscopy, gene array, protein profiling, neurochemistry, electrophysiology (with John Walsh), PET imaging (with Giselle Petzinger), blood flow studies (with Daniel Holschneider), immune analysis (with Brett Lund), and behavior (with Ruth Wood). A major goal of these studies is to translate their findings to develop new therapeutic treatments for Parkinson's disease and to possibly alter disease progression and demonstrated in our recent publication (Fisher et al, 2008)	Research Neurology
	Michele Kipke, PhD	PhD	Professor of Pediatrics (Clinical Scholar)	PPHS	Keck School of Medicine	mkipke@chla.usc.edu		Dr. Michele Kipke is a Professor of Pediatrics and Population and Public Health Sciences at the Keck School of Medicine and Associate Vice President for Strategic Health Alliances in the Office of the Senior Vice President of Health Affairs at the University of Southern California (USC). In addition, she co-directs USC’s Southern California Clinical and Translational Science Institute. A nationally known public health researcher and policy expert, Dr. Kipke has been intimately involved in the HIV/AIDS epidemic since its onset in the U.S. in the mid-1980’s and has made significant scientific contributions to the field of HIV prevention since that time. Early in her career, she studied risk for HIV exposure among injection drug users, developed and conducted the first formal evaluation of an HIV prevention intervention for adolescents in Harlem, and evaluated one of the first needle exchange programs. During the past three decades, Dr. Kipke has conducted NIH-funded behavioral epidemiologic research with at-risk youth populations, as well as health services and health outcomes research to characterize inequities in health in diverse pediatric populations. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Kipke has led a USC-wide effort, called VaccinateLA, which includes a digital and multi-media campaign, and community navigation services delivered to residents in low vaccination communities in Los Angeles County, as well as in 34 states throughout the United States. Through this effort, over 400,000 individuals have been vaccinated to date. Targeted public health interventions are also being developed to increase pediatric vaccinations. To date, Dr. Kipke has authored over 100 publications and lectured nationally and internationally. Dr. Kipke currently serves as the Chair for NIH’s HIV/AIDS Intra- and Inter-personal Determinants and Behavioral Interventions Scientific Review Committee. She was elected to the Pediatric Society for Research and the American Pediatric Society, she has served in numerous national leadership roles and professional and advisory boards, and she has received countless awards, including USC’s highly esteemed Associates Award for Creativity in Research and Scholarship. In 2021 she was recognized by Los Angeles Business Journal as a Women of Influence in Healthcare.	Health Disparities; Adolescents, Young Adults; Social Determinants of Health; Vulnerable Populations	PPHE	IAS Faculty Member	https://keck.usc.edu/faculty-search/michele-diane-kipke/
	Mohammad Soleymani, PhD	PhD	Research Assistant Professor of Computer Science	Computer Science	Viterbi School of Engineering	soleymani@ict.usc.edu		Mohammad Soleymani is a research assistant professor with the USC Institute for Creative Technologies. He received his PhD in computer science from the University of Geneva in 2011. From 2012 to 2014, he was a Marie Curie fellow at Imperial College London. Prior to joining ICT, he was a research scientist at the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva. His main line of research involves developing automatic emotion recognition and behavior understanding methods using physiological signals and facial expressions. He is also interested in understanding subjective attributes in multimedia content, e.g., predicting whether an image is interesting from its pixels or automatic recognition of music mood from acoustic content. He is a recipient of the Swiss National Science Foundation Ambizione grant and the EU Marie Curie fellowship. He has served on multiple conference organization committees and editorial roles, most notably as associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing and technical program chair for ACM ICMI 2018 and ACII 2017. He is one of the founding organizers of the MediaEval multimedia retrieval benchmarking campaign and the president elect for the Association for the Advancement of Affective Computing (AAAC).	Nonverbal Behavior, Human-Machine Interaction, Physiological Signal Analysis	Policy, PPHE, Biopsych	IAS Faculty Member	https://ict.usc.edu/about-us/leadership/research-leadership/mohammad-soleymani/
	Nora Terrault, MD, MPH	MD, MPH	Professor of Medicine, Chief, Division of GI and Liver	GI and Liver	Keck School of Medicine	terrault@usc.edu		Dr. Norah Terrault is Professor of Medicine and Chief of Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases and Neil Kaplowitz Endowed Chair in Liver Diseases Research. She received her MD from the University of Alberta and completed fellowships in Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology at the University of Toronto and a Masters in Public Health at the University of California at Berkeley. Dr. Terrault has focused her clinical and research activities on viral hepatitis and steatotic liver disease (metabolic and alcohol-associated), especially in special populations including those with cirrhosis and those with transplants. In addition to multiple clinical trials related to preventing and treating chronic hepatitis viral hepatitis and metabolic steatotic liver disease, Dr. Terrault has been PI on multiple NIH-funded studies, including the current NIDDK-supported Liver Cirrhosis Network and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis clinical research network (NASH CRN). She has authored more than 450 peer-reviewed manuscripts, editorials, and invited reviews as well as co-authoring US national guidelines for treatment of chronic hepatitis B and C and alcohol-associated liver disease. She is past associate editor for Hepatology and deputy editor for Liver Transplantation and co-edited Zakim and Boyer’s textbook in hepatology. Dr. Terrault is currently serving as the president of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD). She is the founder of USC Project ECHO, a multifaceted program to train and support primary care physicians in California to care for patients with viral hepatitis. She has a long history of mentoring fellows and junior faculty in clinical research and is passionate about creating research support and opportunities for the next generation of GI/Hepatology investigators.	Alcoholism, Treatment, Liver Disease and Other Medical Comorbidities	Policy, PPHE	IAS Faculty Member	https://keck.usc.edu/faculty-search/norah-terrault/
	Rachel Ceasar, PhD	PhD	Assistant Professor of Clinical Population and Public Health Sciences	PPHS	Keck School of Medicine	rceasar@usc.edu		Dr. Rachel Carmen Ceasar is an IAS faculty member and Interim Co-Leader for the IAS Community Engagement & Dissemination research group/committee alongside IAS Member, Dr. Ricky Bluthenthal. IAS acknowledges that addiction service delivery is a complex phenomenon that requires scientific rigor to support evidence-based activities along the entire spectrum of service from prevention to sustaining recovery. The Institute is committed to counteracting racism and health equity through concerted community engagement efforts led by this group. Dr. Ceasar is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Population and Public Health Sciences at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. She is a medical anthropologist and also the qualitative research consultant for the Southern California Clinical and Translational Science Institute’s Biostatistics Epidemiology and Research Design. She leads the USC Maternal Cannabis Lab, where qualitative and quantitative research is conducted to document the historic and systematic inequities people face when they use cannabis during pregnancy. The goal of this work is to partner with maternal health providers, patients, and cannabis dispensaries to develop person-centered and harm reduction-based curriculum and education that supports--rather than criminalizes—parents.	E-cigarette/Vaping Products, Drug Injecting Behavior, Social Sciences - medical anthropology, Maternal Health, Pregnant women & Marijuana	Policy, PPHE	IAS Faculty Member	https://keck.usc.edu/faculty-search/rachel-carmen-ceasar/
	Rael Cahn, MD, PhD	MD, PhD	Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry & The Behavioral Sciences	Psychiatry and The Behavioral Sciences	Keck School of Medicine	rael.cahn@usc.edu		Rael Cahn did his PhD thesis work with the UCSD Department of Neurosciences comparing and contrasting the impact of long term mindfulness (Vipassana) meditation practice and the acute effects of the psychedelic drug psilocybin on perception, attention, and brain activity using EEG methods. After completing residency in Psychiatry at UC Irvine he joined the faculty with the USC Department of Psychiatry. Dr. Cahn is currently Assistant Clinical Professor with the USC Department of Psychiatry doing research at the USC Brain and Creativity Institute. He is a clinician-scientist with extensive personal experience as a meditation practitioner and experience teaching mindfulness meditation practices to clinicians and patients alike. His research expertise is in the neuroscience of meditation and altered states of consciousness. Dr. Cahn has investigated the brain states associated with a wide range of meditative practices and their impact on attentional performance and measures of well-being. He is currently using EEG and fMRI methods to investigate the neurophysiologic mechanisms underlying states of meditative awareness in beginning as well as long term meditators. Other current projects include looking at the neural mechanisms by which mindfulness meditation works in the treatment of depression and addiction. In addition to his work investigating the neural bases to mindfulness and the clinical impact of such practices he continues to have an interest in research assessing the clinical application of psychedelic drugs. He is currently coordinating a study assessing the epigenetic changes underlying the treatment of PTSD using MDMA-assisted psychotherapy.	Meditation / Mindfulness	Biopsych	IAS Faculty Member	https://keck.usc.edu/faculty-search/rael-cahn/
	Raina Pang, PhD	PhD	Assistant Professor of Research, Population and Public Health Sciences	PPHS	Keck School of Medicine	rpang@usc.edu		Dr. Pang’s research interest lies in understanding sex/gender differences and women-specific factors in substance use and other health risk behaviors (e.g., eating). Dr. Pang completed a postdoctoral fellowship for mentored training in behavioral pharmacology and laboratory-based menstrual cycle studies and mentored K01 with training in Ecological Momentary Assessment. Currently, Dr. Pang is PI on projects investigating perinatal tobacco use, adolescent eating behavior, and alcohol use across the menstrual cycle.	Tobacco, ecological momentary assessment, gender	PPHE, Biopsych	IAS Faculty Member	https://keck.usc.edu/faculty-search/raina-pang/
	Rebecca Trotzky-Sirr, MD	MD	Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine	PPHS	Keck School of Medicine	trotzkys@usc.edu		A family medical practitioner, or family doctor, is a general practitioner with additional expertise in patients of all ages. Family medical practitioners are the best. Dr Trotzky is the Medical Director of Urgent Care Center at LAC + USC, one of the largest public hospitals in the USA. She is Medical Director of Jail Health Service. She coordinates expansion of treatment for opioid use disorder as as the Southern California ED Bridge Coordinator, with a sub-specialty in addiction medicine.	Emergency Medicine; Medication Assisted Treatment	Policy, PPHE	IAS Faculty Member	https://keck.usc.edu/faculty-search/rebecca-trotzky-sirr/
	Ricky Bluthenthal, PhD	PhD	Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences, Associate Dean for Social Justice	PPHS	Keck School of Medicine	rbluthen@usc.edu		Dr. Ricky N. Bluthenthal serves on the IAS Steering Committee & is a Co-Leader for the IAS Community Engagement & Dissemination research group/committee alongside IAS Member, Dr. Alice Cepeda. IAS acknowledges that addiction service delivery is a complex phenomenon that requires scientific rigor to support evidence-based activities along the entire spectrum of service from prevention to sustaining recovery. The Institute is committed to counteracting racism and health equity through concerted community engagement efforts led by this group. Dr. Bluthenthal is the Associate Dean for Social Justice, the Vice Chair for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, the Interim Department Chair & Professor in the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences and the Institute for Prevention Research at the Keck School of Medicine, USC. He earned a BA in History and Sociology from UC Santa Cruz and an MA and PhD in Sociology from UC Berkeley. His research has demonstrated the effectiveness of syringe exchange programs, tested interventions & strategies to reduce HIV risk among injection drug users and men who have sex with men, explored how community conditions contribute to health disparities, and examined health policy implementation. His current work includes an observational cohort study of how cannabis legalization impacts use patterns and health outcomes of cannabis and opioids among people who inject drugs and a randomized controlled trial to test the efficacy of a single-session intervention to reduce injection initiation risk behaviors among established people who inject drugs. Dr. Bluthenthal has authored or co-authored over 180 articles in peer-reviewed journals, such as the American Journal of Public Health, Social Science and Medicine, The Lancet, Addiction, and Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research. He serves on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Drug Policy and Drug and Alcohol Dependence and is an associate editor of the addiction section of the Annals of Medicine.	Health Disparities; Opioids; Diversity/ Cross Cultural; Policy; Social Determinants of Health; Vulnerable Populations	CED	Director of Community Engagement and Dissemination	https://keck.usc.edu/faculty-search/ricky-bluthenthal/
	Rob Saltzman, PhD	PhD	Professor of Lawyering Skills		Gould School of Law	Robsaltzman@gmail.com		Rob Saltzman studies legal and professional ethics, the learning process in law school, legislation and the political process, and disabilities issues. He oversaw USC Gould’s Academic Support Program and taught Legal Profession and Legal Analysis of Evidence. Dean Saltzman was a member of the Los Angeles Police Commission, which oversees the L.A. Police Department. Saltzman was appointed to the position in 2007 by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa after serving as vice president of the L.A. City Ethics Commission. He served on the Police Commission until 2016. President Obama appointed Saltzman to the White House Commission on Presidential Scholars in 2011. Saltzman has served on a number of boards and committees for national legal education organizations, including the Law School Admissions Board, National Association for Law Placement Foundation board of trustees, the Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and Civic Leadership board of visitors at Dartmouth College, and the Association of American Law Schools Section on Pre-Legal Education and Admission to Law School executive board. His writings include “Affirmative Action in Law School Admissions and Legal Employment: Facts, Observations, and Suggestions for Gatekeepers” (Insights: Issues and Opportunities for Law Deans & Hiring Attorneys, 1998). Prior to joining USC Law in 1988, Dean Saltzman practiced with a Colorado law firm, served as legal counsel to an elected Los Angeles County supervisor, and was special counsel to the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services. He holds an A.B. from Dartmouth College and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.	Legal and Professional Ethics	Policy, PPHE, Biopsych	IAS Faculty Member	https://gould.usc.edu/faculty/?id=301
	Robert O. Vos, PhD	PhD	Associate Professor of Spatial Sciences and Director of Graduate Studies	Spatial Sciences	Dornsife College of Letters/Arts/Sciences	vos@usc.edu		Robert O. Vos, Ph.D., is an associate professor (teaching) of spatial sciences with the USC Spatial Sciences Institute. His research focuses on industrial ecology, including projects on regional materials flow analysis, eco-industrial park planning, lifecycle assessment and sustainability indicators. One of his specialties is using GIS tools to improve methods used to measure the carbon footprint of many consumer products to more accurately assess their true environmental impact. Vos also has published extensively on theories and concepts of sustainability. His co-edited book, Flashpoints in Environmental Policymaking: Controversies in Achieving Sustainability, won the annual Lynton K. Caldwell Prize in 1998 from the American Political Science Association for the best book on environmental politics and policy. He also is the recipient of the 2010 Sustainability Award for the SmartPackaging Initiative from Disney Consumer Products. He teaches and has taught courses in sustainability science in the city in USC Spatial’s undergraduate program, geospatial technology project management and thesis direction in USC Spatial’s M.S. in GIST program, and the research practicum and teaching in the liberal arts course in USC Spatial’s Population, Health and Place doctoral program. In addition, Vos teaches industrial ecology: technology-environment interaction for the USC Viterbi School of Engineering Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering. He serves and has served as thesis advisor to numerous M.S. in GIST students. He is certified as a Geographic Information Science Professional (GISP) by the Geographic Information Science Certification Institute (GISCI).	Industrial ecology, including projects on regional materials flow analysis, eco-industrial park planning, lifecycle assessment, and sustainability indicators.	PPHE	IAS Faculty Member	https://spatial.usc.edu/team-view/robert-vos/
	Robin Stevens, PhD, MPH	PhD, MPH	Associate Professor of Communication	Communication	Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism	robin.stevens@usc.edu		Robin Stevens, PhD, MPH is a health communication scholar working to achieve health equity in African American and Latinx communities in the United States. Stevens uses digital epidemiology to investigate youth well-being, sexual health, mental health and substance use in the context of the digital neighborhood. She uses interdisciplinary community-engaged approaches to improve the health and well-being of Black youth. Her work is supported by the National Institutes of Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Stevens is the director of the Health Equity & Media Lab. She received her AB from Harvard College, MPH from the University of Michigan, and PhD from the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. She is a proud Philadelphian.	Health Equity in African American and Latinx Communities	PPHE	IAS Faculty Member	https://annenberg.usc.edu/faculty/robin-stevens
	Rosalie Liccardo Pacula, PhD	PhD	Elizabeth Garrett Chair in Health Policy, Economics, and Law, and Professor	Health Policy, Economics & Law	Price School of Public Policy	rmp_302@usc.edu		Dr. Rosalie Liccardo Pacula serves on the IAS Steering Committee & is a Co-Leader for the IAS Addiction Policy & Health Economics research group/committee alongside IAS Member, Dr. Sarah Axeen. This group of faculty members focuses on research, publications, and advocacy to support evidence-based policy development. Dr. Liccardo Pacula holds the Elizabeth Garrett Chair in Health Policy, Economics & Law at the Sol Price School of Public Policy at USC and is a Senior Fellow with the Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics. She Co-Directs the RAND-USC Schaeffer Opioid Policy Tools & Information Center of Excellence (OPTIC) and leads numerous NIH-funded studies on the impact of laws on the supply, demand, and access to treatment for intoxicating substances. Previously, she spent 21 years at the RAND Corporation, including 15 years as co-director of RAND’s Drug Policy Research Center, working on drug policy studies for various U.S. and international organizations. She has served on advisory groups for NIDA (2017), SAMHSA (2020-present), the WHO (December 2019-2020), the National Academy of Sciences (2021 – present), and the CDC (2021-present). She is the current President of the International Society for the Study of Drug Policy (2019-present). Dr. Pacula graduated from Santa Clara University and received her doctorate in economics from Duke University.	Economics of addiction, market for addictive goods, addiction policy, delivery and financing of addiction treatment, cannabis and opioid policy	Policy	IAS Addiction Policy and Health Economics Co-Lead	https://priceschool.usc.edu/people/rosalie-pacula/
	Sarah Anne Axeen, PhD	PhD	Assistant Professor of Research	Emergency Medicine	Keck School of Medicine	axeen@usc.edu		Dr. Sarah Axeen serves on the IAS Steering Committee & is a Co-Leader for the IAS Addiction Policy & Health Economics alongside IAS Member, Dr. Rosalie Pacula. This group of faculty members focuses on research, publications, and advocacy to support evidence-based policy development. Dr. Axeen is the Director of Data and Analytics at the USC Schaeffer Center and an Assistant Professor of research in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. Her research focuses on the drivers of and solutions to opioid use and abuse in the United States, the impact of state-level policies on mental and behavioral healthcare outcomes, geographic variations in healthcare, and the relationship between changes in commercial prices and spending and utilization in Medicare. Dr. Axeen earned a BA in public policy analysis and politics, cum laude, from Pomona College, and a PhD in health policy and economics from the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy, where her dissertation, "Essays in Opioid Use and Abuse," won the USC Price Henry Reining Jr. Award. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship with the USC Schaeffer Center and the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.	Opioids; Policy, Evaluation Solutions to Opioid Use and Abuse, Cost-Effectiveness Analysis	Policy	IAS Addiction Policy and Health Economics Co-Lead	https://www.healthpolicy.usc.edu/author/sarah-axeen-ph-d/
	Seth A. Seabury, PhD	PhD	Director of Keck-Schaeffer Initiative for Population Health Policy/Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical and Health Economics	Pharmecutical and Health Economics	Keck School of Medicine/School of Pharmacy (Schaeffer)	seabury@usc.edu		Seth Seabury, PhD, is director of the Keck-Schaeffer Initiative for Population Health Policy at the USC Schaeffer Center and associate professor in the USC Mann School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences in the Department of Pharmaceutical and Health Economics. He is also the director of graduate studies for the Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy Program in the USC Mann School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. His work examines the impact of legal and regulatory policy on healthcare delivery and patient outcomes, with a particular focus on at-risk and underserved populations. His research has been published in leading medical and health policy journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of the American Medical Association, and featured in major media outlets. He has been funded by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, the National Institute on Aging, the California Department of Industrial Relations and the U.S. Department of Labor. Seabury is also a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a member of the National Academy of Social Insurance and an associate editor of the International Review of Law and Economics. Prior to coming to USC, Seabury was a senior economist and associate director of the Center for Health and Safety in the Workplace at the RAND Corporation and professor of economics at the Pardee RAND Graduate School.	Legal and regulatory policy on healthcare delivery and patient outcomes	Policy	IAS Faculty Member	https://healthpolicy.usc.edu/director/seth-seabury-ph-d/
	Shan Luo, PhD	PhD	Assistant Professor of Medicine	Medicine	Keck School of Medicine	shanluo@usc.edu		Assistant Professor of Medicine	Neurochemistry, dietary intake, behavioral health, decision making, neuroeconomics	PPHE, Biopsych	IAS Faculty Member	https://keck.usc.edu/faculty-search/shan-luo/
	Siddarth Puri, MD	MD	Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences	Psychiatry and The Behavioral Sciences	Keck School of Medicine	siddarth.puri@med.usc.edu		Dr. Siddarth Puri is a psychiatrist in Los Angeles, California and is affiliated with Keck Medical Center of USC. He received his medical degree from University of California, Davis, School of Medicine and has been in practice between 6-10 years.	Behavioral Sciences	PPHE, Biopsych	IAS Faculty Member	https://keck.usc.edu/faculty-search/siddarth-puri/
	Soeren Mattke, MD, DSc	MD, DSc	Research Professor of Economics		Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics/Dornsife	mattke@usc.edu		Director, Center for Improving Chronic Illness Care, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Center for Economic and Social Research Research Professor of Economics, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences	Disease and medical management, health and wellness programs, benefit design, medical technology evaluation, late-stage and post-market development of pharmaceuticals, devices and health care services, including regulatory and payer strategy.	Policy	IAS Faculty Member	https://cesr.usc.edu/people/staff/mattke
	Stefan Scherer, Dr. rer. nat.	Dr. rer. nat.	Research Assistant Professor		INstitute for Creative Technologies	scherer@ict.usc.edu		Stefan Scherer is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Southern California (USC) and the USC Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) where he leads research projects funded by National Science Foundation and the Army Research Laboratory. Stefan Scherer directs the lab for Behavior Analytics and Machine Learning and is the Associate Director of Neural Information Processing at the ICT. He received the degree of Dr. rer. nat. from the faculty of Engineering and Computer Science at Ulm University in Germany with the grade summa cum laude (i.e. with distinction) in 2011. His research aims to automatically identify characterize, model, and synthesize individuals’ multimodal nonverbal behavior within both human-machine as well as machine-mediated human-human interaction. His research was recently featured in the Economist, the Atlantic and the Guardian and was awarded a number of best paper awards in renowned international conferences. His work is focused on machine learning, multimodal signal processing, and affective computing. Stefan Scherer serves as an Associate Editor of the Journal IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing and is the Vice Chair of the IAPR Technical Committee 9 on Pattern Recognition in Human-Machine Interaction.	Machine learning, multimodal signal processing, and affective computing.	Policy, PPHE, Biopsych	IAS Faculty Member	https://ict.usc.edu/about-us/leadership/research-leadership/stefan-scherer/
	Stephanie Eggert, MS	MS	Senior Lecturer	Physical Education	Dornsife College of Letters/Arts/Sciences	Seggert@usc.edu		Stephanie Eggert, M.S. is a Physical Education + Mind-Body Health (PEMBH) Professor at USC and the founder of USC’s Kundalini Yoga and Meditation curriculum. Her other course, “Work-life Balance – Blueprint for Vitality” (MDA 300), gives students practical tools using quantum energy practices to experience their optimum health, creativity, clarity and overall energy, which is part of the Mind-Body Minor. Eggert received her B.S. in Psychology at Loyola University in Baltimore, MD where she captained the Top-10 Nationally ranked Women’s Lacrosse team. After college, she played for the United States National Team, was a nationally ranked triathlete, and began her coaching career at Duke University, another college lacrosse powerhouse. After several years of coaching and teaching at Duke, she later received her M.S. in Kinesiology And Sport Psychology, where her research focused the mental benefits of practicing Yoga, mental attitudes of female athletes, and Flow States. She has co-published research on female athletes and frequently contributes to news and information publications on health and wellness. Her travels have extended to Nepal, Tibet, Scotland, India, Egypt, and other power-points throughout the world. She also teaches the courses Principles of Athletic Coaching and Stress Management for Healthy Living and she co-leads the USC PEMBH Maymester trip to India. Her teaching style and class content gives students an opportunity to step into a deeper, more right-brained way of achieving energetic outcomes while still in an academic setting. Applied creative and energetic techniques for increased positive mental and physical health are the cornerstone of her classes.	Kundalini Yoga and Meditation	Biopsych	IAS Faculty Member	https://dornsife.usc.edu/cf/faculty-and-staff/faculty.cfm?pid=1047499
	Stephen Read, PhD	PhD	Professor of Social Psychology	Psychology	Dornsife College of Letters/Arts/Sciences	read@usc.edu			Neural network models, social reasoning, personality, virtual reality, sexual behavior, neurobiological bases of risky decision making	Biopsych	IAS Faculty Member	https://dornsife.usc.edu/cf/faculty-and-staff/faculty.cfm?pid=1003627
	Steven Siegel, MD, PhD	MD, PhD	Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences	Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences	Keck School of Medicine	Steven.Siegel@med.usc.edu		Dr. Steven Siegel was appointed Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at the Keck School of Medicine of USC in July 2016. He is a physician-scientist specializing in the treatment of psychosis. Dr. Siegel came to USC after 20 years at the University of Pennsylvania, where he had roles in research, teaching and clinical care. He received his B.A. in Neuroscience at Colgate University in 1986, and his M.D. and Ph.D. in Neurobiology at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in 1996. He later completed a MacArthur Foundation Training Fellowship before completing his residency in Psychiatry and a Fellowship in Neuropsychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to joining USC, Dr. Siegel was involved in, medical, undergraduate and graduate education. He was Associate Director of Masters in Translational Research for 6 years at the University of Pennsylvania. He directed a course on Therapeutics and Commercialization at Penn, based on his experience with technology transfer. Other major educational roles at Penn included Director of the Clinical Training Program that spanned 6 clinical specialties. He was named one of the nation’s outstanding clinicians by the National Association for Mental Illness. Dr. Siegel has made contributions to understanding the neurobiology of schizophrenia, autism, and drug dependence. His laboratory uses animal models to evaluate EEG, combined with behavioral and molecular studies. Additionally, he invented, patented, and licensed a new method of treatment for schizophrenia using biodegradable implants, which successfully completed a pivotal Phase 3 clinical trial and has been submitted as an NDA to the FDA for consideration. In his current role as Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences, Dr. Siegel oversees operations for a department comprised of 200 faculty members, 50 staff members and 100 residents, fellows, and trainees; more than tripling the size of the department in 5 years since he arrived. His department provides a broad range of mental health services to children and adults at LAC+USC Medical Center including Emergency, Inpatient, and Outpatient Services. Additionally, he has expanded and improved the quality of mental health services at Keck Medicine and USC Care, with an emphasis on consultation liaison and specialty services. During his first year at USC he designed and oversaw the incorporation of student mental health services into Keck Medicine of USC. He continues to lead and guide the evolution of student mental health services at USC, both within Student Health, and in the new Keck Medicine student outpatient practice that launched in late 2019. He was named the inaugural Chief Mental Health and Wellness Officer for Keck Medicine of USC in 2021, with responsibility and oversight of mental health services across the Keck enterprise as well as leadership of wellness program as part of Keck Medicine’s nationally acclaimed Care for the Caregiver program. Over his career at Penn and USC, Dr. Siegel has mentored more than 150 graduate and undergraduate trainees in neuroscience and bioengineering. His research has been supported by federal, state, foundation, and industry sources for more than 25 years. He has published approximately 150 manuscripts as well as multiple book chapters, and one book spanning topics related to drug abuse, basic research in schizophrenia and autism, as well as clinical aspects of schizophrenia.	Behavioral Genetics; Psychiatric Comorbidity; Education	Biopsych	IAS Faculty Member	https://keck.usc.edu/faculty-search/steven-siegel/
	Steven Yale Sussman, PhD	PhD	Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences	PPHS	Keck School of Medicine	ssussma@usc.edu		Steve Sussman, Ph.D., FAAHB, FAPA, FSPR, received his doctorate in social-clinical psychology from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1984. He is a professor of preventive medicine, psychology, and social work at the University of Southern California (USC), and he has been at USC for 36 years. He studies etiology, prevention, and cessation within the addictions arena, broadly defined, as well as translation research and program development. He has over 500 publications. His programs include Project Towards No Tobacco Use (young teen tobacco use prevention), Project Towards No Drug Abuse (older teen drug abuse prevention), and Project EX (older teen tobacco use prevention/cessation), which are considered evidence-based programs at numerous agencies (i.e., CDC, NIDA, NCI, OJJDP, SAMSHA, CSAP, Colorado and Maryland Blueprints, Health Canada, U.S. DOE and various State Departments of Education). He received the honor of Research Laureate for the American Academy of Health Behavior in 2005, and he was President there (2007-2008). Also, as of 2007, he received the honor of Fellow of the American Psychological Association (Division 50, Addictions). Also, as of 2019, he received the honor of Fellow of the Society for Prevention Research. He is the current Editor of Evaluation & the Health Professions (SAGE Publications; since 2010). His newest texts are: Substance and Behavioral Addictions: Concepts, Causes, and Cures (Cambridge, 2017) and The Cambridge Handbook of Substance and Behavioral Addictions (Editor; Cambridge, 2020).	Adolescents, Young Adults; Alcohol; Opioids; Recovery; Marijuana; Tobacco; Policy; Mental Health	PPHE	IAS Faculty Member	https://keck.usc.edu/faculty-search/steven-yale-sussman/
	Susan Elizabeth Luczak, PhD	PhD	Professor of Psychology	Psychology	Dornsife College of Letters/Arts/Sciences	luczak@usc.edu		Susan E. Luczak received her Sc.B. (honors) in Psychology from Brown University, her M.A. and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from USC, and her post-doctoral training at the University of California, San Diego. Her research program examines etiological factors in the development of alcohol problems and methodological issues in alcohol research. She is currently investigating genetic, biological, cultural, and psychosocial factors that relate to alcohol use in various ethnic groups, including individuals of African, northeast Asian, Indian, and Caucasian descent in the US and on the island of Mauritius. She also has a line of research in collaboration with Co-PI Gary Rosen to use real-time assessment techniques to examine naturalistic drinking patterns and to develop mathematical models and software to convert transdermal alcohol measurement obtained via wearable biosensors into estimates of breath/blood alcohol concentration.	Development of Alcohol Problems and Methodological Issues in Alcohol Research	PPHE, Biopsych	IAS Faculty Member	https://dornsife.usc.edu/cf/faculty-and-staff/faculty.cfm?pid=1008335
	Sze-chuan Suen, PhD	PhD	Assistant Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering	Management Science and Engineering	Viterbi School of Engineering	ssuen@usc.edu		Sze-chuan Suen joined the Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering at the University of Southern California as an Assistant Professor in 2016 and is a faculty member at the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics. Sze holds a PhD from the department of Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University. Sze's research focuses on how to develop innovative models that adapt to changing demographic and secular trends in healthcare to support actionable policy recommendations. Her research draws from techniques in simulation, dynamic systems modeling, cost-effectiveness analysis, and decision analysis. Her previous work has focused on the control of tuberculosis in resource-constrained settings, with emphasis on policies to address drug-resistance. She has ongoing collaborations with researchers in the Stanford School of Medicine and Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research, and she is a member of INFORMS (Institute of Operations Research and the Management Science), and the Society for Medical Decision Making (SMDM).	Control of tuberculosis in resource-constrained settings, with emphasis on policies to address drug-resistance.	Policy, PPHE	IAS Faculty Member	https://viterbi.usc.edu/directory/faculty/Suen/Sze-chuan
	Terry David Church, DRSc, MA, MS	DRSc, MA, MS	Assistant Professor of Regulatory and Quality Sciences	Regulatory and Quality Sciences	School of Pharmacy	tdchurch@usc.edu		Dr. Terry David Church serves on the IAS Steering Committee & is a Co-Leader for the Training Consortium alongside IAS Member, Dr. Jessica L. Barrington-Trimis. This group is responsible for enhancing addiction-related education from the community level throughout the highest levels of higher education to enhance our community’s ability to serve and treat individuals. Dr. Church is an Assistant Professor in Regulatory and Quality Sciences at the University of Southern California's School of Pharmacy, where he also serves as the Assistant Director of Pharmacy Undergraduate Programs. His academic focus includes pharmaceutical regulations, addiction patterns, disaster management, and education. He specializes in the history and geography of drugs, biorepository regulation and ethics, controlled substances regulation, and the ethics of academic research. Dr. Church earned his Doctor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Regulatory Sciences from USC and a Master of Arts in Cultural Anthropology from Temple University. His doctoral thesis evaluated regulatory practices for continuity and disaster planning for biobanks in the United States. He is a faculty fellow at USC's Center for Excellence in Teaching. He also directs the STAR science educational program with BRAVO Medical Magnet High School & USC. After receiving his Master’s degree from Temple, Dr. Church was the Operations Director at the University of Pennsylvania's Office of Human Research, where he implemented human subjects research protections and monitored all clinical trials. He then worked as a Program Manager at USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, overseeing research, clinical, and community activities related to various cancer types. For over a decade, he managed the operation and development of Investigator-Initiated Trials.	Pharmecutical Regulations, History of Drugs, Biorepository Regulation and Ethics	TC	IAS Training Consortium Co-Lead	https://pharmacyschool.usc.edu/faculty/terry-david-church-drsc-ma-ms/
	Todd William Schneberk, MD	MD	Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine	Emergency Medicine	Keck School of Medicine	tschnebe@usc.edu		Todd Schneberk is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine, Faculty Co-Director of the USC Keck Human Rights Collaborative and Director of the Gehr Center Student Innovators Program. He completed his residency in emergency medicine at LAC+USC Medical Center and his fellowship in health policy and research at UCLA. He is the EM residency Social Emergency Medicine Coordinator and is passionate about incorporating social justice and human rights in emergency care. His research has demonstrated gaps in the care of Opioid use and disorder patients and the need for incorporation of harm reduction practices in the Emergency Department. He has worked extensively with displaced persons in Tijuana, Mexico since 2015, performed forensic evals for asylum cases with Physicians for Human Rights on both sides of the border including numerous Migrant Protection Protocols (Remain in Mexico) clients in Tijuana, and testified in front of Congress regarding the health effects of the Migrant Protection Protocols. His current research and advocacy projects span immigration and border health policy, hospital-based violence intervention programming, carceral health, opioid use disorder and medication assisted treatment access.	Health Disparities; Opioids; Adolescents, Young Adults; Social Determinants of Health; Vulnerable Populations; Immigrant Health; Emergency Medicine	Policy, PPHE	IAS Faculty Member	https://keck.usc.edu/faculty-search/todd-william-schneberk/
	Tyler Mason, PhD	PhD	Assistant Professor of Clinical Population and Public Health Sciences	PPHS	Keck School of Medicine	tylermas@usc.edu		Tyler Mason, Ph.D., is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine at the University of Southern California and Associate Director of the Real-Time Eating Activity and Children’s Health (REACH) lab. Broadly, his research interests include the etiology and treatment of eating disorders and obesity. In particular, his research studies trait- and state-based processes that affect individuals ability to engage in self-regulation and goal-directed behaviors among diverse groups such as adults, children, and minorities. Specifically, he investigates how the interplay of factors such as affect, executive functioning, and social stressors are associated with unhealthy behaviors in the context of regulatory, control, and goal theories. Much of this research uses ecological momentary assessment to measure the momentary processes that maintain various eating and diet behaviors and physical activity. Further, he is interested in the use of advanced statistical methodology to further obesity and eating disorder research including multilevel modeling, latent variable modeling, and network analysis. His research has culminated in over 80 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, and his research has been featured in top journals such as Psychological Bulletin, Health Psychology, Obesity, and the International Journal of Eating Disorders. Finally, he serves on the editorial boards of two international peer-reviewed journals: Eating Behaviors and Eating and Weight Disorders.	Obesity, behavior change, adolescents and young adults	PPHE, Biopsych	IAS Faculty Member	https://keck.usc.edu/faculty-search/tyler-mason/
	Vsevolod Katritch, PhD	PhD	Associate Professor of Quantitative and Computational Biology and Chemistry		Dornsife College of Letters/Arts/Sciences	katritch@usc.edu		Dr. Katritch is a computational biologist and computational chemist focused on development and application of 3D molecular modeling and bioinformatics tools to explore structure, function and pharmacology of membrane proteins and specifically of the GPCR superfamily. Dr. Katritch received Ph.D. in Biophysics & Molecular Biology from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. Following postdoctoral training at the Chemistry Department of Rutgers University, and a position of Director of Computational Biology at SiGA Technologies Inc., Dr. Katritch joined the research faculty of the UCSD School of Pharmacy and San Diego Supercomputer Center, and then Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology at The Scripps Research Institute. Research in his group at USC involves deciphering molecular mechanisms of GPCR signaling, computer-assisted design of receptors with improved thermostability and other beneficial properties, as well as discovery of selective small molecule modulators of GPCR activity as chemical probes and lead candidates for drug discovery.	Molecular modeling, structural bioinformatics, membrane proteins, GPCR, structure-based drug discovery	Biopsych	IAS Faculty Member	https://michelson.usc.edu/faculty-directory/vsevolod-katritch/
	Yan Liu, PhD	PhD	Associate Professor of Computer Science	Computer Science	Viterbi School of Engineering	yanliu.cs@usc.edu		I am a full professor in the Computer Science Department, Viterbi School of Engineering at USC. I was an assistant professor from 2010 to 2016, and an associate professor from 2016 to 2020. Before joining USC, I was a research staff member at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center from 2006 to 2010. I received my M.S. and Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University. My research interests include machine learning with applications to health, sustainability, and social media.	Computer Science	PPHE	IAS Faculty Member	https://viterbi-web.usc.edu/~liu32/
	Jo Marie Reilly (2023 NEW), MD, MPH	MD, MPH	Professor of Clinical Family Medicine (Educational Scholar)	Family Medicine	Keck School of Medicine	jmreilly@med.usc.edu		Jo Marie Reilly, MD, MPH is a Professor of Family Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. She is the Director of the Keck School of Medicine of USC Primary Care Initiative, Associate Director of the Introduction to Clinical Medicine Course and Family Medicine Pre-Doctoral Director. She graduated from Georgetown Medical School, completed her internship and residency in family medicine at the Kaiser Permanente Family Residency Program in Los Angeles and her fellowship in women’s health and obstetrics at the White Memorial Family Practice Residency Program, where she remained as faculty for 13 years. She is the immediate past Chair of the American Academy of Family Physician’s commission on Education, Student and Resident subcommittee, on the Editorial Boards of Family Medicine, Family Systems and Health and PULSE. She is a USC-Eisner Family Medicine Residency faculty, the senior Family Medicine Student Advisor, and on the leadership team of the Society of Teacher’s of Family Medicine’s bioethics and humanities interest group. Dr. Reilly’s publications and research interests include innovations in student and resident education, the primary care pipeline, physician well-being, care for the underserved, arts, humanities and narrative medicine and women and children’s health care.	Innovations in student and resident education, the primary care pipeline, physician well-being, care for the underserved, arts, humanities and narrative medicine and women and children’s health care.		IAS Faculty Member	https://keck.usc.edu/faculty-search/jo-marie-reilly/
	Michael Jakowec(2023 NEW), PhD	PhD	Associate Professor of Rsearch Neurology	Neurology	Keck School of Medicine	mjakowec@surgery.usc.edu		The primary focus of research in Dr. Jakowec's laboratory is to better understand the molecular mechanisms involved in neuroplasticity in the injured brain with the emphasis on the basal ganglia, a region of the brain responsible for motor behavior. Currently, his laboratory is exploring the interactions between the neurotransmitter systems involving dopamine, glutamate and serotonine and finding ways to manipulate them to enhance motor behavior. To achieve this goal, animal models of basal gagnglia injury using the neurotoxicant MPTP are being used to investigate intrinsic neuroplasticity as well as using both pharmacological and behavioral modification including intensive treadmill exercise to alter the course of response to injury. Techniques and approaches used in the lab to examine alterations in genes and proteins of interest include immunocytochemistry, in situ hybridization histochemistry, western immunoblotting, light microscopy, gene array, protein profiling, neurochemistry, electrophysiology (with John Walsh), PET imaging (with Giselle Petzinger), blood flow studies (with Daniel Holschneider), immune analysis (with Brett Lund), and behavior (with Ruth Wood). A major goal of these studies is to translate their findings to develop new therapeutic treatments for Parkinson's disease and to possibly alter disease progression and demonstrated in our recent publication (Fisher et al, 2008)		Biopsych	IAS Faculty Member	https://keck.usc.edu/faculty-search/michael-jakowec/
	Stuart Murray (2023 NEW), PhD	PhD	Della Martin Associate Professor of Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences	Psychiatry and The Behavioral Sciences	Keck School of Medicine	stuartmu@usc.edu		Dr. Murray is the Della Martin Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, where he serves as Director of the Eating Disorders Program, and Director of the Translational Research in Eating Disorders laboratory. He has specialized in the treatment of eating disorders for over a decade, and has authored more than 150 scientific manuscripts, books and book chapters, and has lectured extensively both nationally and internationally. Dr. Murray's program of research utilizes behavioral, psychophysiological and neuroimaging methods to (i) elucidate the mechanisms that underpin eating disorder psychopathology, and (ii) develop precision treatment approaches to optimize patient outcomes.	Behavioral, psychophysiological and neuroimaging methods to (i) elucidate the mechanisms that underpin eating disorder psychopathology, and (ii) develop precision treatment approaches to optimize patient outcomes.		IAS Faculty Member	https://keck.usc.edu/faculty-search/stuart-murray/
	Denise Tran (2023 NEW), PhD	PhD	Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences		Keck School of Medicine	deniset@usc.edu		Dr. Denise Tran is an assistant professor at the USC Keck School of Medicine. She earned her B.S. in Psychology from the University of California, San Diego and her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Loma Linda University. She completed her predoctoral clinical internship at the Oregon Health & Science University in 2020. She was a post-doctoral scholar in the PEARL before getting promoted to her current position. Her research focuses on the prevention and intervention of substance use in adolescents and young adults with a primary focus on e-cigarette use and other tobacco products. Her interests also include examining factors associated with alcohol, cannabis, and opioid use.	Prevention and intervention of substance use among adolescents and young adults with a primary focus on e-cigarette use		IAS Faculty Member	https://keck.usc.edu/faculty-search/denise-tran/

Notable Findings

Association of Electronic Cigarette Use with Subsequent Initiation of Tobacco Cigarettes in US Youths

Authors: Berry KM, Fetterman JL, Benjamin EJ, Bhatnagar A, Barrington-Trimis JL, Leventhal AM, Stokes A

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Cigarette use was higher among prior e-cigarette users (5%) compared with youths with no prior tobacco use (3.8%)
Prior e-cigarette use was associated with more than 4 times the odds of ever cigarette use
E-cigarette use is associated with increased risk for cigarette initiation and use

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Flavors of e-Cigarettes Used by Youths in the United States

Authors: Berry KM, Fetterman JL, Benjamin EJ, Bhatnagar A, Barrington-Trimis JL, Leventhal AM, Stokes A

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Among 8th-grade past 30-day JUUL users, the flavor most often used was mango
In 10th grade, mint was most often used
In 12th grade, mint was most often used

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Do medical marijuana laws reduce addictions and deaths related to pain killers?

Authors: Powell D, Pacula RL, Jacobson M

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Medical marijuana law adoption decreases the opioid mortality rate by 21%

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Association Between State Laws Facilitating Pharmacy Distribution of Naloxone and Risk of Fatal Overdose

Authors: Abouk R, Pacula RL, Powell D

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Naloxone access laws granting direct authority to pharmacists were associated with significant reductions in fatal overdoses
These policies were estimated to reduce opioid-rated fatal overdoses by 387 per 100,000 people in 3 or more years after adoption.

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Transition from injecting opioids to smoking fentanyl in San Francisco, California

Authors: Authors: Kral AH, Lambdin BH, Browne EN, Wenger LD, Bluthenthal RN, Zibbell JE, Davidson PJ

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Between 2018 and 2020, there was a shift from injecting tar heroin to smoking fentanyl in San Francisco
The median number of past-month injections steadily decreased from 92 injections in July to December 2018 to 17 injections in January to June 2020.

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Dihydromyricetin Protects the Liver via Changes in Lipid Metabolism and Enhanced Ethanol Metabolism

Authors: Silva J, Yu X, Moradian R, Folk C, Spatz MH, Kim P, Bhatti AA, Davies DL, Liang J

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DHM reduced liver steatosis, liver triglycerides, and liver injury markers in mice chronically fed EtOH
These findings support the utility of DHM as a dietary supplement to reduce EtOH-induced liver injury

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Opioid prescribing decreases after learning of a patient's fatal overdose

Authors: Doctor JN, Nguyen A, Lev R, Lucas J, Knight T, Zhao H, Menchine M

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Letter recipients were 7% less likely than control prescribers to start a new patient on opioids
Significant reduction in high-dose prescribing in the intervention group compared with the control group: a 3% decrease for 50 MME daily doses and a 5% decrease for 90 MME daily doses dispensed.

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Safer Crack Kits and Smoking Practices: Effectiveness of a Harm Reduction Intervention among Active Crack Users in Mexico City

Authors: Frankeberger J, Cepeda A, Natera-Rey G, Valdez A.

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Use of Pyrex pipes significantly increased from 7.0% to 3%
The use of copper filters significantly declined, with 8.6% at pretest and 18.2% at post-test
These findings identify the potential benefits in reducing risky smoking behaviors of crack kit distribution programs in Mexico City.

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Policing space in the overdose crisis: A rapid ethnographic study of the impact of law enforcement practices on the effectiveness of overdose prevention sites

Authors: Collins AB, Boyd J, Mayer S, Fowler A, Kennedy MC, Bluthenthal RN, Kerr T, McNeil R.

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Increased visibility of law enforcement and surveillance discouraged participants from engaging in the street-based drug scene and incited fears of arrest
Drug-scene policing practices (e.g. neighborhood sweeps, foot patrol) created barriers to engagement in harm reduction services, increasing risk of drug-related harm
Policing around safe consumption sites and other harm reduction services can impede access and reduce ability to engage in risk reduction practices

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Cannabis Surveillance With Twitter Data: Emerging Topics and Social Bots

Authors: Allem JP, Escobedo P, Dharmapuri L.

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The most prevalent topic was person tagging at 60% followed by using cannabis at 11.89%
61% of posts were indicative of cannabis initiation including phrases such as “first time.” Health and medical was the next most prevalent topic at 5.61%

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Multi-Institutional Quality Improvement Project to Minimize Opioid Prescribing in Children after Appendectomy Using NSQIP-Pediatric

Authors: Kelley-Quon LI, Ourshalimian S, Lee J, Russell KW, Kling K, Shew SB, Mueller C, Jensen AR, Vu L, Padilla B, Ostlie D, Smith C, Inge T, Roach J, Ignacio R, Lofberg K, Radu S, Rohan A, Wang KS

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After the QI intervention, overall opioid prescribing decreased from 18.2% to 0%
Opioid prescribing can be minimized in children after appendectomy without increasing emergency room visits or decreasing patient satisfaction

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Secondhand nicotine vaping at home and respiratory symptoms in young adults

Authors: Islam T, Braymiller J, Eckel SP, Liu F, Tackett AP, Rebuli ME, Barrington-Trimis J, McConnell R

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Secondhand nicotine vape exposure was associated with increased risk of bronchitic symptoms and shortness of breath among young adults.
Prevalence of wheeze ranged from 3% to 14.9%
Prevalence of shortness of breath ranged from 4% to 26.0%
Prevalence of shortness of breath ranged from 5% to 18.1%

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Notable Findings

Association of Electronic Cigarette Use with Subsequent Initiation of Tobacco Cigarettes in US Youths

DATA:

Flavors of e-Cigarettes Used by Youths in the United States

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Do medical marijuana laws reduce addictions and deaths related to pain killers?

DATA:

Association Between State Laws Facilitating Pharmacy Distribution of Naloxone and Risk of Fatal Overdose

DATA:

Transition from injecting opioids to smoking fentanyl in San Francisco, California

DATA:

Dihydromyricetin Protects the Liver via Changes in Lipid Metabolism and Enhanced Ethanol Metabolism

DATA:

Opioid prescribing decreases after learning of a patient's fatal overdose

DATA:

Safer Crack Kits and Smoking Practices: Effectiveness of a Harm Reduction Intervention among Active Crack Users in Mexico City

DATA:

Policing space in the overdose crisis: A rapid ethnographic study of the impact of law enforcement practices on the effectiveness of overdose prevention sites

DATA:

Cannabis Surveillance With Twitter Data: Emerging Topics and Social Bots

DATA:

Multi-Institutional Quality Improvement Project to Minimize Opioid Prescribing in Children after Appendectomy Using NSQIP-Pediatric

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Secondhand nicotine vaping at home and respiratory symptoms in young adults

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