Joined the Institute: 2018

Education and training: PhD, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD; MPH, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA; MA, Department of Applied Psychology, University of Delhi (South Campus), India.

Overview/research interests: Social determinants of health, social norms, social capital and social networks, social epidemiology, substance use treatment, screening and prevention, structural factors that affect the underlying drivers of health behavior and disease, immigrant health, refugee health and mixed-methods research.

Current research projects:

• Co-investigator, Randomized Clinical Trial to Reduce Cardiovascular Risk in Adults with severe mental illness (SMI) (PI: Rebecca Rossom)
• Co-investigator, Clinical Decision Support for Opiate Use Disorders in Medical Settings: Pilot Usability Testing in an EMR (COMPUTE) (PI: Rebecca Rossom)
• Co-investigator, Treatment Utilization Before Suicide (TUBS) (PI: Brian Ahmedani)
• Co-investigator, Mental Health Research Network II (PI: Greg Simon)

Publications