NYU Langone’s Center for Opioid Epidemiology and Policy team is a multidisciplinary group of faculty, affiliates, staff, doctoral students, and postdoctoral fellows who study the opioid crisis.

Faculty

Magdalena Cerdá, DrPH, MPH
Director, Center for Opioid Epidemiology and Policy
Professor, Department of Population Health

Samuel R. Friedman, PhD
Research Professor, Department of Population Health

Bennett Allen, PhD, MPA
Assistant Professor, Department of Population Health

Noa Krawczyk, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Population Health

Ellicott C. Matthay, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Population Health

Maria R. Khan, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor, Department of Population Health

Amanda M. Bunting, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Population Health

Suzan M. Walters, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Population Health

Faculty Affiliates

Samrachana Adhikari, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Population Health

Arturo Alvarez-Roldan, PhD
Associate Professor, University of Granada

Alvaro Castillo-Carniglia, PhD, MSc
Assistant Professor, Society and Health Research Center, Universidad Mayor de Chile

Ji E. Chang, PhD, MS
Assistant Professor of Public Health Policy and Management, NYU School of Global Public Health

Charles Cleland, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Population Health

Sunita M. Desai, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Population Health

Charles J. DiMaggio, PhD
Professor, Departments of Surgery and Population Health

Kelly M. Doran, MD
Assistant Professor, Ronald O. Perelman Department of Emergency Medicine
Assistant Professor, Department of Population Health

Marc N. Gourevitch, MD, MPH
Chair, Department of Population Health
The Muriel G. and George W. Singer Professor of Population Health, Department of Population Health
Professor, Departments of Medicine and Psychiatry

Scott Hadland, MD, MPH, MS
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Boston University Medical Center

Spruha Joshi, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health

Nicole Kravitz-Wirtz, PhD, MPH
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Davis

Joshua D. Lee, MD
Professor, Departments of Population Health and Medicine

Brandon Marshall, PhD, MSc
Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Brown University School of Public Health

Jennifer McNeely, MD
Associate Professor, Departments of Population Health and Medicine

Charles J. Neighbors, PhD, MBA
Associate Professor, Departments of Population Health and Medicine

Daniel B. Neill, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor of Computer Science and Public Service, NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service

John R. Pamplin II, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health

Madeline Renny, MD
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Pediatrics, and Population Health Science and Policy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

John Rotrosen, MD
Professor, Department of Psychiatry

Kara Rudolph, PhD, MHS
Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health

Julian Santaella-Tenorio, DVM, DrPH, MSc
Associate Professor of Epidemiology
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Cali, Colombia

Joy D. Scheidell, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Department of Health Sciences, University of Central Florida College of Health Professions and Sciences

Students and Fellows

Ignacio Borquez Infante, MA

Samantha Doonan

Navin Kumar, PhD, MPhil, MA

Allison Perry, MHS

Learn more about our students and fellows.

Staff

Qiana Banks, CRPA-F, CASAC-T
Project Assistant

Caroline Barnes, MPH
Senior Program Manager

Rafael Charris, MS
Data Analyst

Sophie Dowdy
Communications Consultant

Zoe Graveline, MA
Project Assistant

Maria Mercedes Guzman Herrera, MPH, MSW
Project Assistant

Khadija Israel, LMSW
Project Assistant

Victoria Jent, MPH
Data Analyst

Cameron McKay, PhD
Senior Data Analyst

Megan Miller, MPH
Research Coordinator

Brandi Moore, MPH
Project Assistant

Pooja Shah
Researcher Coordinator

Katie Wheeler-Martin, MPH
Senior Data Analyst