NYU Langone’s Center for Opioid Epidemiology and Policy team is a multidisciplinary group of faculty, affiliates, staff, doctoral students, and postdoctoral fellows focused on advancing overdose prevention and substance use epidemiology, alleviating substance-related harms and promoting health equity within our communities.

Faculty

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

Noa Krawczyk, PhD
Associate Director, Center for Opioid Epidemiology and Policy
Assistant 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

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

Alvaro Castillo-Carniglia, PhD, MSc
Professor, Department of Public Health at Universidad San Sebastián, Chile

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

Charles Cleland, PhD
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
Associate Professor, Ronald O. Perelman Department of Emergency Medicine
Associate Professor, Department of Population Health

Omar El Shahawy, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Population Health

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

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

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

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

Matthew Lee, DrPH, MPH
Assistant Professor, Department of Population Health

Brandon Marshall, PhD, MSc
Royce Professor of Teaching Excellence in Epidemiology, Brown University School of Public Health

Jennifer McNeely, MD
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
Professor of Computer Science and Public Service, NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service

John R. Pamplin II, PhD, MPH
Bruce P. Dohrenwend Assistant Professor of Psychiatric Epidemiology, 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 Emeritus of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry

Saba Rouhani, PhD, MSc
Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology, NYU School of Global Public Health

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

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

Lorna E. Thorpe, PhD, MPH
Chair and Anita Steckler and Joseph Steckler Professor of Population Health, Department of Population Health

Students and Fellows

Ignacio Borquez Infante, MA
Doctoral Student

Ariadne E. Rivera Aguirre, PhD, MPP
Postdoctoral Fellow

Andrés Sánchez Pájaro, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow

Learn more about our students and fellows.

Staff

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

Cale Basaraba, MPH
Research Scientist

Rafael Charris, MS
Data Analyst

Zoe Graveline, MA
Associate Research Coordinator

Maria Mercedes Guzman Herrera, MPH, LMSW
Senior Research Project Manager

Khadija Israel, LMSW
Project Assistant

Victoria Jent, MPH
Data Analyst

Cameron McKay, PhD
Senior Data Analyst

Megan Miller, MPH
Senior Research Coordinator

Brandi Moore, MPH
Project Assistant

Pooja Shah
Researcher Coordinator

Katie Wheeler-Martin, MPH
Senior Data Analyst