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Dr. Hannah Cooper is a Professor in the Departments of Behavioral, Social, and Health Education Sciences and Epidemiology at Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health. She holds the Rollins Chair of Substance Use Disorders Research and directs Spark, the Rollins Program on Substance Use Disorders. Her work focuses on the social determinants of drug-related harms, harm reduction strategies, and health equity, employing geospatial, qualitative, and multilevel methodologies. Dr. Cooper co-leads the TADA pre-doctoral training program, which integrates advanced data analytics to address drug-related harms.
Education: ScD and SM from Harvard School of Public Health, BA from Yale University.
Research Interests: Addiction/substance abuse, HIV/AIDS prevention, health disparities, and social epidemiology. She investigates rural opioid epidemics, medication-assisted treatment access, and the intersection of social policies with health outcomes.
Grants & Funding: Principal Investigator on multiple NIH-funded studies, including a $1.3M project on overdose policies and a $2.5M initiative to combat opioid epidemics in rural Kentucky. Her work spans harm reduction infrastructure, Medicaid policy impacts, and racial inequities in healthcare access.
Affiliations: Member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) Task Force on Opioid Crisis Interventions, ASPPH Task Force on Substance Abuse, and CDC’s Social Determinants of Health Think Tank.
