Juliette Roddy

Juliette Roddy is a faculty member at Northern Arizona University (NAU), affiliated with The NARBHA Institute and the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice. She holds the James Wurgler MD Chair of Criminal Justice and Behavioral Health, indicating a senior academic and research leadership role. Her work bridges criminal justice, behavioral health, and public policy, with a strong focus on substance use, addiction treatment, and crisis response systems.

Her research interests include:

• Substance use disorders and treatment
• Cost-benefit analysis in criminal justice programs
• Rural health and tele-behavioral interventions
• Culturally-centered practices for American Indian/Alaska Native populations
• Mobile health (mHealth) for mental health in rural areas
• Economic and ethnographic studies of public health interventions

Her recent publications reflect a trend toward interdisciplinary, community-engaged research that evaluates the effectiveness and feasibility of behavioral health interventions, particularly in underserved and rural communities. She frequently employs mixed methods and scoping reviews to assess program outcomes and implementation.

Juliette Roddy has secured research funding as Principal Investigator on projects including an economic analysis of cigarette smoking and an ethnographic study of Detroit’s Fresh Start Program. She has also contributed to multiple peer-reviewed articles and created datasets archived with ICPSR.

• AN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF CIGARETTE SMOKING (PI)
• An Ethnographic and Economic Investigation of the Fresh Start Program (Detroit) (PI)

She collaborates with researchers such as Haberstroh, Baldwin, Mellott, and Roddy, A. L. Her work is highly collaborative and often involves training and engaging health professional students in research.