About
Jordan Jurinsky is an Assistant Professor at the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study & Human Development, part of the School of Arts and Sciences at Tufts University. His work focuses on addiction recovery among youth, addressing social contexts and health equity through community partnerships. He holds a PhD from Vanderbilt University (2024), an MEd from Vanderbilt (2019), and a BA from the University of North Carolina at Asheville (2016).
His research investigates mechanisms of addiction recovery and disparities in recovery outcomes, emphasizing equity-centered approaches. He leads collaborations, such as developing a universal data collection tool with the Association of Recovery Schools and validating the Perceptions of Research Trustworthiness Scale with the Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance. Key projects include analyzing race-gender variation in arrest history and alcohol use, and studying social recovery capital in adolescents.
Dr. Jurinsky teaches courses including Introductory Statistics in Developmental Science, Directed Research, and Senior Honors Thesis at Tufts. His teaching spans multiple semesters and includes mentoring doctoral students and interns. Despite no explicitly listed awards, his work has been published in high-impact journals like JAMA Open and Alcohol: Clinical and Experimental Research.
His advising and grants involve partnerships with recovery schools and medical institutions to address health disparities. Future work aims to explore how and for whom addiction recovery unfolds, leveraging strengths-based and community-engaged methodologies. Dr. Jurinsky is affiliated with Tufts’ Eliot-Pearson Department, contributing to both academic and applied research initiatives.
