Research Scientist
New York University, New York
David Frank, Ph.D.
Job title, credentials:
Research Scientist (Medical Sociologist)
Organization
New York University
City, province
New York City, NY
Bio:
David Frank is a Medical Sociologist and Research Scientist at New York University’s School of Global Public Health. His research focuses primarily on opioid use, opioid use treatment programs like Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT), and the structural and policy context in which opioid use and treatment occurs within. He is also someone who has been on methadone maintenance treatment for more than 15 years and uses those experiences in his research to produce scholarship that more accurately reflects the lives of people who use illegal substances. Dr. Frank is currently working on a NIDA Diversity Supplemental study that examines the role of opioid withdrawal in MAT treatment initiation and overdose risk behaviors, and is also participating in other projects that seek to re-frame MAT through narratives that better account for the role of criminalization in the lives of people who use drugs. He is committed to using his dual role as a scholar with lived experience of drug use to amplify the voices of people who use drugs and to dismantle the systems that negatively impact their lives.
Sunday, April 16, 2023
8:30 AM – 9:45 AM