Join us on March 5th from 1 PM to 2:30 PM for the Brody Center for Population Mental Health Seminar Series with Dr. Ellicott Matthay from NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Dr. Matthay will be presenting on “Landscape and impacts of local cannabis policies: Challenges and new directions for epidemiologic research.” This talk will be co-hosted by the Psychiatric Epidemiology Training (PET) Program.
Dr. Matthay is a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the Center for Opioid Epidemiology and Policy at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, where she studies how community characteristics and public policies affect population health and health disparities. She has substantive expertise in violence, suicide, alcohol, and drugs, and methodological expertise in causal inference, policy evaluation, machine learning, and geospatial data. Dr. Matthay's research has been supported by the NIH, CDC, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, including a K99/R00 Award and a current R01 Award studying local policies' impacts on violence and firearm injury. She has published over 80 peer-reviewed articles in leading journals and received prestigious awards, including the Tyroler Student Paper Prize, Lilienfeld Postdoctoral Paper Prize, and an Equity and Justice Award. Her work has been featured in major media outlets, including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, The Atlantic, and WIRED.
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