Joy Scheidell is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Sciences. She has a PhD in Epidemiology from New York University and an MPH in Epidemiology from the University of Florida. Scheidell was a predoctoral fellow in the NIDA-funded Behavioral Sciences Training in Drug Abuse Research Program at NYU and was a scholar in the 2022 cohort of the NIDA Diversity Scholars Network Program. Scheidell is an Associate Member in the College on Problems of Drug Dependence and a recipient of a National Institutes of Health Loan Repayment Program for Health Disparities Research Award. Scheidell’s research seeks to understand the intersections among substance use, mental health, and sexual and reproductive health, with a specific focus on vulnerable and marginalized populations including people who use drugs, women, and racial/ethnic minority groups. She conducts both secondary data analyses and primary data collection studies, and uses advanced epidemiologic methods grounded in causal inference.