Emily (Emmy) Shearer, M.D., M.P.P., M.Sc., is an AHRQ T32 Postdoctoral Fellow working with the Center for Advancing Health Policy through Research (CAHPR). She completed her M.D. at Stanford School of Medicine, her M.P.P. at the University of Cambridge, her M.Sc. in Health Policy, Planning, and Financing at the London School of Economics and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and her clinical residency in Emergency Medicine at Brown. She works clinically as an Emergency Medicine attending physician at Brown University Health, and is passionate about understanding the impact of local, state, and federal policy on patient care outcomes, including access to and costs of care. She is grateful for the opportunity to partner with CAPHR in furthering these interests. 

Hyesung (Hace) Oh, Ph.D., MBA, MPH is an AHRQ T32 Postdoctoral Fellow working with the Center for Advancing Health Policy through Research (CAPHR) and the Center for Gerontology and Healthcare Research (CGHCR) at the Brown University School of Public Health. He completed his Ph.D. in Health Services Research and his Master's in Economics at Brown University. He is passionate about understanding the impacts of health care firm behavior on health care markets, patient health, and health care disparities. He is thankful for the opportunity to collaborate with experts at CAPHR and CGHCR to help improve the financing, operations, and outcomes of the rapidly consolidating U.S. health care system. 

Kianna Arthur received a B.S. in Psychology at Lewis-Clark State College and completed her Ph.D. in Social and Personality Psychology at Texas A&M University. Her research interests include counterfactual thinking, nicotine and tobacco use, motivation and goals, decision-making, and intervention development.

Julie Cristello earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Science in Child and Adolescent Psychology from Florida International University. She completed the Clinical Psychology Predoctoral Internship Training Program at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Her research focuses on the etiology of adolescent substance use, particularly the influence of online (e.g., social media) and offline (e.g., parents, peers) social contexts on alcohol and drug use. The overarching goal of her work is to identify modifiable targets for interventions as a way to reduce substance use and its associated consequences among youth.

Silvi Goldstein earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Rhode Island. She completed the Clinical Psychology Predoctoral Internship Program at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Her research assesses harm reduction and trauma-informed treatment approaches for substance use, as well as individual- and systems-level factors that increase risk for substance-related health inequities among minoritized populations.

Emily Helminen completed a Ph.D. in school psychology at Syracuse University and is currently completing a NIDA T32 postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies at Brown University. Their main research interests include: 1) developing and testing compassion-based interventions to improve mental and behavioral health among sexual and gender minority people with a focus on co-occurring posttraumatic stress symptoms and substance use, and 2) understanding the physiological (e.g., stress reactivity) and psychological (e.g., shame) mechanisms by which compassion-based interventions are effective.

Lindy Howe earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at Indiana University and completed the Clinical Psychology Internship Training Program at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University in 2024. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow on the NIDA T32 at the Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies at Brown University. Her research focuses on the etiology and consequences of alcohol and cannabis use across various populations, often employing ecological momentary assessment (EMA). Emerging interests include ambulatory assessment methods and the interplay between perinatal substance use and mental health.

Tessa's research interests focus on health disparities in substance use. In particular, she has an interest in protective factors for substance use in Multiracial individuals and people from other minoritized racial/ethnic groups. Tessa completed her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at the University of Rhode Island and received her B.S. in psychology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Lindsey Nichols received a B.S. in Psychology at the University of Texas, Austin and completed two M.S. degrees and a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology at the University of Oregon. She completed a predoctoral internship specializing in juvenile justice at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Her research interests are substance use interventions and treatment for adolescents and young adults, variability in mental health treatment effects, post-treatment supports and maintenance, and research synthesis methods.

Chanda Phelan is interested in researching human-computer interaction focused on the opportunities and challenges of integrating technology into substance use disorder (SUD) treatment, and understanding how technology is used during the recovery journey. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of Michigan and focused on the opportunities, threats, and strategies for technology in SUD.

Megan Strowger completed her undergraduate studies at Drexel University and earned her Ph.D. in health psychology at Old Dominion University. Her research interests include in-person and online social influences on alcohol use among young adults, social network and longitudinal methods, and developing alcohol interventions for young adults which also focus on the impact of alcohol-related social media.