Research Affiliates

CHERISH Research Affiliates are investigators with a diverse methodological expertise in economic evaluation of substance use disorder treatments and experts in related fields such as simulation modeling, advanced statistical analysis of substance use natural history and treatment outcomes, treatment program organizational research, and clinical program evaluation. The Research Affiliates program aims to establish a community for health economic researchers in the substance use disorder field to interact throughout the year, virtually and in-person.

Lindsay Allen, PhD, MA

Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University

health care access, substance use disorders, health services research

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Sabrina Assoumou, MD, MPH

Boston University School of Medicine

HCV, HIV, substance use disorder

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Marcus Bachhuber, MD, MS

LSU Health Sciences Center

opioid use disorder, addiction health services research, health policy

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Joshua Barocas, MD

University of Colorado School of Medicine

substance use disorder, simulation modeling, epidemiology

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Colleen Barry, PhD, MPP

Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy

health policy, political analysis, mental illness

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Tyler Bartholomew, PhD

University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

prevention science, harm reduction

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Brittany Bass, PhD

UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs

economic evaluation, policy analysis, substance use disorders

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Ahmed Bayoumi, MD, MSc

St. Michael's Hospital; University of Toronto

economic evaluation, decision analysis, quality of life

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Czarina Behrends, PhD, MPH

Weill Cornell Medicine

opioid use disorder, harm reduction, economic evaluations

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Annick Bórquez, PhD

University of California San Diego

SUD, HCV, HIV, cost-effectiveness analysis,

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Diana Bowser, ScD, MPH

Brandeis University Heller School for Social Policy and Management

health financing, health economics, health systems

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Jeremy Bray, MA, PhD

University of North Carolina at Greensboro

economic evaluations, behavioral health interventions

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Jennifer Brown, PhD

Purdue University

HIV/HCV prevention, substance use disorders, integrated data analysis

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Susan Busch, PhD

Yale School of Public Health

mental health policy, health services research

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Kevin Callison, PhD

Tulane University School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine

policy analysis, substance abuse, health insurance

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Mathieu Castry

Boston University School of Medicine

economic evaluation, SUD, HCV

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Robin Clark, PhD, MA

University of Massachusetts Medical School

economic evaluation, behavioral health, cost

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Alexander Cowell, PhD

RTI International

economic evaluations, behavioral health, criminal justice

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Thomas D’Aunno, PhD

NYU Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service; NYU College of Global Public Health

evidence-based management, health management

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Michael L. Dennis, PhD

Chestnut Health Systems

recovery management, adolescents, recovery support

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Monica Deza, PhD

Hunter College

economic and policy evaluation, labor economics

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Andria Eisman, PhD, MPH, MS

Wayne State University

economic evaluation of implementation strategies, costing approaches in implementation research, substance use prevention

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Eva Enns, PhD

University of Minnesota

cost-effectiveness analysis, infectious disease modeling, network analysis

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Rachel Epstein, MD, MSc

Boston University School of Medicine

HIV, HCV, EHR-based studies

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Daniel J. Feaster, MS, PhD

University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

HIV, substance use disorders, health disparities

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Michael T. French, MA, PhD

University of Miami

health economics, health policy, program evaluation, alternative health care delivery systems

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Peter D. Friedmann, MD, MPH, FASAM, FACP

University of Massachusetts Medical School; Baystate Health

health services research, substance use disorders, criminal justice

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Jemima A. Frimpong, MPH, PhD

NYU Abu Dhabi

innovation sustainability, organizational interventions, performance improvement

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Daniel Hartung, PharmD, MPH

Oregon State University

pharmacy policy, opioid use disorder, drug utilization

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Jason M. Hockenberry, PhD

Yale School of Public Health

public policy evaluation, econometrics, substance use disorders

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Brady Horn, PhD

University of New Mexico

risky health behaviors, substance use disorders

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Elbert Huang, MD, MPH

University of Chicago

cost-effectiveness analysis, health policy

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Michael Irvine, PhD, MSc, MSci

BC Centre for Disease Control

Mathematical modeling, Bayesian statistics, Causal inference

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Ali Jalali, PhD, MA

Weill Cornell Medicine

health econometrics, economics evaluation, payment models

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Shashi Kapadia, MD, MS

Weill Cornell Medicine

infectious diseases, HCV

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Dhruv Khurana, PhD, MS, MA

David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

policy evaluations, health disparities, cost-effectiveness/benefit-cost analysis

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Noa Krawczyk, PhD

NYU Grossman School of Medicine

barriers to SUD treatment, stigma reduction

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Emanuel Krebs, MA

Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences (CHÉOS)

econometric analyses, resource allocation, policy

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Margaret Kuklinski, PhD, MA

University of Washington School of Social Work

economic evaluation, evidence-based preventive interventions

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Neda Laiteerapong, MD, MS

University of Chicago

healthcare disparities, health policy

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Karen Lasser, MD, MPH

Boston University Medical Center

health disparities, safety-net hospitals, tobacco

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Alain Litwin, MD

University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville

HCV, epidemiology, patient-centered outcomes

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Thanh Lu, PhD

Weill Cornell Medicine

SUD, health economics, applied econometrics

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Catherine Maclean, PhD

George Mason University

policy analysis, substance use disorder, econometrics

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Justine Mallatt, PhD

U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis

opioid crisis, substance misuse, measuring healthcare spending

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Tami Mark, MBA, PhD

RTI International

health care policy, mental health, substance use disorders, health care quality measures

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Brandon Marshall, PhD

Brown University School of Public Health

Epidemiology

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Erika Martin, MPH, PhD

SUNY University at Albany

health policy, infectious disease, program evaluation

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Natasha Martin, DPhil

University of California San Diego

epidemic modeling, people who inject drugs, prisoners

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Beth McGinty, PhD, MS

Weill Cornell Medicine

policy evaluation; substance use disorder; serious mental illness

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Angélica Meinhofer, PhD

Weill Cornell Medicine

health economics, public policy, SUD

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Marlon Mundt, PhD

University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health



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Bohdan Nosyk, MA, PhD

St. Paul's Hospital; Simon Fraser University

economic evaluation, simulation modeling, health system performance

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Todd Olmstead, PhD

University of Texas at Austin LBJ School of Public Affairs

economic evaluations, addiction health services research

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Michael Pesko, PhD

Georgia State University Andrew Young School of Policy Studies

tobacco control, health insurance, e-cigarettes

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Harold Pollack, PhD, MPP

University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration

Medicaid, criminal justice, simulation analysis

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Ioana Popovici, PhD

Nova Southeastern University

opioid use disorder, alcohol use disorder

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David Powell, PhD

RAND Corporation

opioid crisis, panel data inference

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Jonathan Purtle, DrPH, MPH, MSc

New York University School of Global Public Health

dissemination research, policy implementation

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Michael Richards, MD, PhD, MPH

Baylor University

substance use disorders, serious mental illness

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Robert Rosenman, PhD, MA

Washington State University

health behaviors, econometric modeling, binary data

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Kara Rudolph, PhD, MHS, MPH

Columbia University

opioid use disorder, epidemiology, statistics, causal inference

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Brendan Saloner, PhD

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

opioid use disorder, health insurance, access to care

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Yuyan Shi, PhD

University of California, San Diego

opioid use disorder, overdose, marijuana

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Theresa Shireman, PhD, MS

Brown University School of Public Health

health services research, pharmacoepidemiology

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Chelsea Shover, PhD

University of California, Los Angeles

overdose, substance use disorders

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Kosali Simon, PhD

O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University

health economics, health policy

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Laura Starbird, PhD, RN

University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing

OUD, implementation science, cost analysis

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Thomas Stopka, PhD, MHS

Tufts University School of Medicine

spatial epidemiology, opioid use disorder, infectious disease epidemiology

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Cindy Parks Thomas, PhD

Brandeis University Heller School for Social Policy and Management

substance use disorders, pharmacotherapy, performance management

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Benjamin Ukert, PhD

Texas A&M University School of Public Health

SUD, health policy, risky health behaviors

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Todd Wagner, PhD

Stanford University and VA Health Economics Resource Center

Economic evaluations, causal inference

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Katherine Wen, PhD, MS, MPP

Vanderbilt University

health economics, applied microeconomics

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Joseph West, SM, ScD

University of Miami Florida Institute for Health Innovation

population health sciences, value-based care models, economic models

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Eve Wittenberg, MPP, PhD

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Center for Health Decision Science

quality of life, economic utilities, stated preference methods

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Kai Yeung, PharmD, PhD

Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute

specialty drugs, drug benefits

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Xiao Zang, PhD

Brown University School of Public Health

model-based economic evaluation, opioid use disorder, infectious disease

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Gary A. Zarkin, MA, PhD

RTI International

substance abuse economics, cost analysis, cost-effectiveness, cost-benefit analysis

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Melissa Zielinski, PhD

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

addiction, mental illness

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