Professor
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY
Dr. April Young is a Professor in the University of Kentucky Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health and a Faculty Associate with the University of Kentucky Center on Drug and Alcohol Research. With colleagues and students, Dr. Young has been conducting substance use research in rural Kentucky for more than ten years. She has led six federally-funded studies, including a project that piloted innovative methods for recruiting people who use drugs, a private-public partnership to develop software for identifying infectious disease transmission networks, a multi-site project with Oregon and Ohio to improve clinical trial design for substance use research in rural settings, and a cooperative agreement under the National Rural Opioid Initiative to reduce harms associated with substance use in twelve Appalachian counties. Dr. Young is also a co-investigator on the HEALing Communities Study in Kentucky which seeks to reduce opioid overdose deaths in sixteen Kentucky counties.
Tuesday, April 11, 2023
2:15 PM – 3:30 PM