Alexandra B. Collins

Alexandra B. Collins is a medical social scientist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, affiliated with the People, Place, and Health Collective. Her research focuses on social, structural, and environmental factors affecting the health of people who use drugs, particularly through qualitative and ethnographic methods.

• Research Pillars: Substance use, harm reduction, gender inequities, built environment impacts, and structural determinants of health
• Methodology: Community-engaged ethnography, qualitative analysis, spatial health research

Key contributions include analyzing law enforcement impacts on overdose prevention, intersectional risk environments, and pandemic-related drug use adaptations. She emphasizes how housing, criminalization, and environmental factors create differential health outcomes across social identities.