Rachel Ann Hoopsick

Rachel Ann Hoopsick is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Kinesiology and Community Health at the University of Illinois. Her research focuses on substance use behaviors, mental health outcomes, and workplace safety among military personnel, healthcare workers, and vulnerable populations. Key areas include military couple dynamics, opioid co-use trends, and healthcare worker stress.

Recent work explores how compassion satisfaction and burnout influence drug use among healthcare workers, and examines motivations for joining the U.S. Army Reserve/National Guard. She has also analyzed sex differences in methamphetamine-related mortality linked to fentanyl/heroin co-use.

Her research outputs include 45 peer-reviewed articles and 2 media contributions addressing national overdose trends and methamphetamine mortality. Collaborations span military health systems and public health institutions.

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