Joseph J. Palamar, MPH, PhD

I am a Professor in the Section on Tobacco, Alcohol, and Drug Use in the Department of Population Health at NYU Langone. I specialize in drug use epidemiology and my most recent research investigates prevalence and correlates of drug use in the U.S. and in the New York City nightclub scene. Much of my work focuses on the use of party drugs such as MDMA (also known as Ecstasy or Molly), ketamine, GHB, methamphetamine, and cocaine, and I also focus extensively on the epidemiology of use of new psychoactive substances. I was awarded two National Institutes of Health loan repayment awards, a Research Career Development Award (K01), and four Research Project grants (3 R01s and an R21) from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), and I am also Deputy Director of the NIDA-funded National Drug Early Warning System (NDEWS).

For New York University, I serve as a faculty research affiliate at the NYU Center for Drug Use and HIV/HCV Research, and I have been teaching statistics at the NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing since 2009. In 2010, I was honored with the NYU Steinhardt Outstanding Dissertation Award, and I have authored over 200 papers, including those published in top medical journals such as JAMA, JAMA Internal Medicine, JAMA Psychiatry, and Addiction. I also serve on multiple editorial boards.

I earned my PhD in public health from New York University in 2010, an MPH and MA in educational psychology from the same institution, and a BA in forensic psychology from John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York.