Our Predict-to-Prevent (P2P) investigative team includes experts from the Tufts University School of Medicine, the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, the University of Massachusetts Lowell, and Boston Medical Center, a hospital known for its leading work in treating patients with opioid-use disorder and for research related to the opioid crisis.
The Community Advisory Board (CAB) has been a part of the P2P team since its inception, meeting regularly to discuss study design, application of our social-ecological model, and study results, and to share insights and local responses to the current overdose crisis across Massachusetts communities.
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MDPH) is a key partner, providing technical expertise and, with the Public Health Data Warehouse, most of the data used in our analyses. Leaders and analysts from MDPH are members of our investigative team and the CAB.
Investigative team
Multi-Principal Investigators
- Thomas Stopka (contact MPI), PhD, MHS, Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine
- Cici Bauer, PhD, MS, Department of Biostatistics and Data Science, Center for Spatial‑Temporal Modeling for Applications in Population Sciences, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Co-Investigators
- Marc Larochelle, MD, MPH, Clinical Addiction Research and Education Unit, Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center
- Wenjun Li, PhD, Department of Public Health, University of Massachusetts Lowell
- Dana Bernson, MPH, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Office of Population Health
- Olaf Dammann, MD, PhD, Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine
- Leland Ackerson, ScD, Department of Public Health, University of Massachusetts Lowell
- Shikhar Shrestha, PhD, Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine
Study Coordinator
Ric Bayly (Researcher), MS, MPH, Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine
Postdoctoral Fellows
- Jack Cordes, PhD, MS, Tufts University School of Medicine, Department of Public Health and Community Medicine
- Ghada Hassan, PhD, Department of Biostatistics and Data Science, Center for Spatial‑Temporal Modeling for Applications in Population Sciences, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Staff
- Xiaona Li, MS, doctoral candidate, Department of Biostatistics and Data Science, Center for Spatial‑Temporal Modeling for Applications in Population Sciences, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
- Angela Consentino, MPH, doctoral candidate, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Department of Public Health
- Meng Zheng, MS, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Department of Public Health
Massachusetts Department of Public Health
- Robbie Goldstein, MD, MPH, Commissioner
- Sai Cherala, MD, Assistant Commissioner and Director of Office of Population Health
- Dana Bernson, MPH, Director of Data Science, Research and Epidemiology, Office of Population Health
- Alex Walley, MD, MSc, Medical Director, Opioid Overdose Prevention Pilot Program; Professor, Boston University School of Medicine
- Amy Bettano, Data Science, Research, and Epidemiology Division
- Malena Hood, Data Science, Research, and Epidemiology Division
- Marianina Stewart, Special Analytic Projects Program Coordinator, Data Science, Research, and Epidemiology Division