Our faculty and researchers advance knowledge on the design, delivery and effectiveness of behavioral health services, including the prevention and treatment of substance use disorders. Through rigorous, interdisciplinary inquiry, they identify and address the drivers of health disparities and develop evidence-based interventions that improve access, quality and health outcomes.
Meet our experts closing the health gap:
Dawn Anderson-Butcher, PhD
Professor
Dawn Anderson-Butcher is a professor in the College of Social Work at The Ohio State University and a Licensed Independent Social Worker (LISW-S) in the State of Ohio. She also holds a...
Samantha Bates, PhD., LISW-S
Associate Professor
Samantha Bates, Ph.D., LISW-S, is a licensed independent social worker with more than 10 years of experience working with socially vulnerable youth in various settings, including schools, communities, afterschool programs, and sport....
Donte Boyd, PhD
Associate Professor
Dr. Donte T. Boyd is an Associate Professor at The Ohio State University College of Social Work. He also serves as a Visiting Research Faculty member as part of the Research Education...
Kelley Breidigan, MSW
Assistant Clinical Professor
Kelley Breidigan, MSW, LISW-S, is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the College of Social Work at The Ohio State University. She has provided services to individuals and families across a range of...
Mike Broman, PhD
Assistant Professor
Dr. Michael J. Broman is an Assistant Professor at The Ohio State University College of Social Work. His research is focused on substance use prevention, treatment, and recovery and systemic barriers and...
Alan Davis, PhD
Associate Professor & Director, CPDRE
Dr. Davis’s clinical and research training was motivated by answering the following question: As part of his training, he worked primarily with adults in a variety of community and clinical research settings,...
Elinam Dellor, PhD
Assistant Professor
Dr. Elinam Dellor conducts research on biological, social, and behavioral mechanisms that link childhood adversity to chronic health conditions in adulthood. Her current research focuses on understanding persistent health disparities among child...
Daniel Do, PhD
Assistant Clinical Professor
Daniel Do is an Assistant Clinical Professor with the College of Social Work at The Ohio State University. Dan is a Public Health Social Worker and holds Licensed Independent Clinical Social Work...
Tom Gregoire, PhD
Associate Professor, Dean Emeritus
A professor of social work at Ohio State University, Gregoire is also emeritus dean of the Ohio State College of Social Work which he led from 2008 through 2022, during which the...
Joe Guada, PhD
Associate Professor
Joe Guada practiced as a social worker for approximately 16 years in a variety of mental health settings. This experience informs his areas of research that include families with a loved one...
David A. Jenkins, PhD
Professor & Dean
David A. Jenkins, PhD, LCSW is a Professor and Dean of the College of Social Work at The Ohio State University. He formerly served as Dean of the School of Social Work...
Michelle Kaiser, PhD
Associate Professor
Dr. Kaiser engages in collaborative, interdisciplinary, and community-engaged ecological-social research. Her community food security research addresses interconnected social, economic, and environmental issues.
David Kinitz, PhD
Assistant Professor
Dr. David J. Kinitz is a social and behavioral health scientist whose research aims to understand social, political, and economic systems that shape LGBTQIA+ health inequities, particularly as they relate to labor...
Amy Krings, PhD
Associate Professor
Dr. Amy Krings examines how members of impacted groups come together to prevent, mitigate, and resist environmental and other social injustices. Her research questions and community-engaged methods are grounded in her previous...
James Lachaud, PhD
Assistant Professor
Dr. Lachaud is an Assistant Professor in the College of Social Work at The Ohio State University. His research uses various approaches and methods to unravel social and environmental injustices and their...
Arati Maleku, PhD
Associate Professor
Dr. Maleku is a social work scholar-activist investigating the social, cultural, and structural contexts of migration, social rights, and health equity. Her research program explores how sociostructural determinants of health influence immigrant...
Lauren McInroy, PhD
Associate Professor
Dr. Lauren McInroy’s multi-disciplinary research has two primary aims: (1) using internet-enabled information and communication technologies (ICTs) to foster improved outcomes and increase well-being for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and other...
Mitzi Moody, JD
Assistant Clinical Professor
Mitzi Moody is an Assistant Clinical Professor with the College of Social Work at The Ohio State University and holds an independent license to practice social work (LISW-S) in the State of...
Sehun Oh, PhD
Associate Professor
Dr. Sehun Oh’s research interests are in poverty, behavioral health, and social welfare policy, which are grounded in his experience and educational background in economics, sociology, public health, and social welfare.
John Provenzano, MSW
Assistant Clinical Professor
John Provenzano MSW, LISW-S is an Assistant Clinical Professor at The Ohio State University. Prior to this he was employed at the Columbus, OH VA Ambulatory Care Center working with the veteran...
Muna Saleh, PhD
Assistant Professor
Dr. Muna Saleh examines how resettlement experiences and community contexts influence the health of resettled refugees. Her research places particular focus on improving healthcare coordination for refugees living with chronic illnesses.
Lois Stepney, PhD
Assistant Clinical Professor
Assistant Clinical Faculty Lois Marie Clay Stepney, PhD, MSW, LISW-S has served in the Columbus Community since 1995 in the mental health and medical fields as a master’s level social worker in...
Keith Warren, PhD
Associate Professor
Keith Warren’s scholarship focuses on mutual aid based programs, those in which people with a problem help others with similar problems.
