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Dr. Helseth is a health services researcher and licensed clinical psychologist focused on reducing the public health impact of mental health and substance use disorders through the development and dissemination of effective behavioral technology-based interventions. She serves as adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Behavioral Social Sciences at Brown University School of Public Health and is also an assistant professor at the Center for Dissemination and Implementation Science at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Her research includes increasing access and utilization of effective mental health and substance use interventions, particularly for underserved populations, and spans treatment development, evaluation, and community-based implementation. Dr. Helseth is currently the Principal Investigator of a five-year, NIDA-funded Early Career Award aimed at developing and implementing digital health technologies to reduce marijuana use among court-involved but non-incarcerated youth. She is also a co-investigator on a NIDA-funded study testing a digital health intervention for parents of adolescents in residential treatment for substance use disorders. Dr. Helseth was previously a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Brown University and has a background in clinical psychology, focusing on mental health interventions.
Department: Department of Economics